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A Challenging Season
Lance Guidry said it best. “A 6-5 season is not good enough at McNeese. Just having a winning season is not our goal.” But 6-5 is where the Cowboys ended up after their season-ending
Read More »Dream Job
He was born and raised in little LaRose, La. He played and coached football across the bayou state; coached with and against the Tigers. So of course head coach of LSU is his dream
Read More »Out Of The Hunt
You’ve heard it before. A person’s character is best measured not by how they have fallen but by how well they pick themselves up and respond to adversity. That character test will be most
Read More »Quick End For The Mad Hatter
Just maybe those blades of grass inside Tiger Stadium have a special flavor. I wouldn’t have thought that until Les Miles plucked a few and gave them a chew. The hat always seemed too
Read More »Just Play The Damn Game
Life isn’t as simple as it once was. That goes for college football, too. From 1951 through 1986, McNeese and what was then USL squared off on the football field for 36 straight years,
Read More »Decision Made
The McNeese Cowboys’ quarterback duel is over, and the man with the quickest draw won. Arkansas State transfer James Tabary beat out juniors Grant Ashcraft and Joe Lissard for the job after roughly two
Read More »Another Sad Tale
Don’t sneak a peek ahead a few paragraphs. Try and figure out who I’m referring to in yet another tragic American sports saga involving a privileged, spoiled, arrogant sports star who appears to have
Read More »A Dad’s Conundrum
What’s a dad to do? We are supposed to keep our kids away from trouble; protected and safe from injury; as much as humanly possible. Dads are obligated to make wise and prudent decisions
Read More »Ali
I was anxiously waiting in the lobby of a lakefront hotel in Lake Charles. It was 1983, if my memory is correct. I was a young sports anchor and reporter for KPLC-TV at the
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