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Wiretaps And Basketball
FBI wiretaps, federal investigators, subpoenas, guilty verdicts and plea bargains. Mix all that with college basketball recruiting and you have a colossal problem that could take down big-name coaches and programs and further scar
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Time To Wheel And Deal
This NFL offseason promises to be one of the more interesting ones — and I’m not even thinking about any instant replay rule changes or referee firings to make up for the notorious no-call
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New Season With Familiar Faces
By Rick Sarro It’s very rare for a college baseball team to have two or three players back for a fourth season. The usual culprits come into play: graduation cycles, being a junior college
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The No-Call Fallout
You’re not expecting a Super Bowl story out of me, are you? No, I didn’t partake in the Boycott Bowl or shun Super Bowl LIII. I watched the Patriots’ defensive gem of a 13-3
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Heartbreak Again
The many intriguing story lines for Super Bowl LIII will surely outnumber the number of streets named Peach this or that in the city of Atlanta. Two first-ballot Hall of Fame quarterbacks, Drew Brees
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Joe’s Journey
By Rick Sarro For the sake of brevity, I will go back as far as last spring in Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio State Buckeyes’ spring game had just concluded, and it was quite apparent
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Outside The Inner Circle
Here is what I know and don’t know about the hiring of McNeese’s new head football coach. I know Sterlin Gilbert is completely void of any McNeese history or ties or connections to the
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Star Search
By Rick Sarro Over the past year, the McNeese State athletic department has fired two of the program’s highest-profile head coaches — a thing that’s never been done before: at least in the department’s
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Basketball Rebirth
The McNeese Cowboys’ new head basketball coach Heath Schroyer has been somewhat akin to the CEO of a company going public on the New York Stock Exchange. Since his hiring in March, Schroyer has
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Weathering The Southland Storm
By Rick Sarro You didn’t think this Southland race was going to proceed through the fall without some drama did you? The McNeese Cowboys were sitting pretty atop the league just a few weeks
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