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2018 McNeese Season Preview

Rick Sarro September 10, 2018 Comments Off on 2018 McNeese Season Preview

Story By Rick Sarro • Photo By Jesse Hitefield If you say something enough times, it becomes a fact. Find your message or narrative, repeat, rinse and repeat again. It’s an adage that’s been around

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Shopping List Of Must Haves

Rick Sarro May 17, 2018 Comments Off on Shopping List Of Must Haves

How on earth do the New Orleans Saints top last year’s draft? They don’t. Can’t even come close. That’s not a knock against these 2018 draft picks by any means. There’s no way this

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Eager For ‘18

Rick Sarro December 21, 2017 Comments Off on Eager For ‘18

There’s not much left with any connection to McNeese’s football season now that Sam Houston State is the only Southland Conference team remaining in the FCS Playoffs. If you’ve lost track of the post-season,

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Super Bowl: Bucket-List Worthy

Rick Sarro February 16, 2017 Comments Off on Super Bowl: Bucket-List Worthy

Our home-state New Orleans Saints don’t have to earn a privileged appearance in the Super Bowl before you consider going to what is, with all due respect to the Daytona 500, the biggest single-day

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Saints-less In The Playoffs

Rick Sarro February 2, 2017 Comments Off on Saints-less In The Playoffs

O Saints, where art thou? It’s another NFL post-season, and the Who Dat nation is quiet. The only Black and Gold in the playoffs is from up North. The Steelers are headed to New

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MCNEESE FOOTBALL ATTENDANCE

Rick Sarro December 1, 2016 Comments Off on MCNEESE FOOTBALL ATTENDANCE

THE MSU GATE GAME BY RICK SARRO It seems like they just kicked off the 2016 McNeese football season, and now it will come to a close in a few short days. Ten games

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Quick End For The Mad Hatter

Rick Sarro October 21, 2016 Comments Off on 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

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Everyone Has A Favorite

Pierre Sez October 21, 2016 Comments Off on Everyone Has A Favorite

De election’s pretty close, an we can tell you in our area, politics is still a religion. Bets are bein made, wit liquor bein involved in de better part uf dem. Now, all de

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Just Play The Damn Game

Rick Sarro October 7, 2016 Comments Off on 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,

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Ready, Set, Geaux

Lyles Martin September 16, 2016 Comments Off on Ready, Set, Geaux

2016 LSU FOOTBALL PREVIEW Story By Lyles Martin Photos By Steve Franz/LSU LSU Coach Les Miles survived a palace coup. So what’s he going to do now? Yes, there was Miles after the regular

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