BLACK BAYOU: Bass are slow to fair with a few hitting floating worms around the grass. Crappie are slow. Bream are fair to good on beds on worms and crickets.
Questions in the offensive line and defensive backfield, as well as the introduction of a new offensive playbook, defined the 2012 spring practice sessions for the Ruston Bearcats.
The best players aren't always found on championship teams, but in Class 1A, the softball and baseball champions had the Outstanding Player in their respective squads as voted on by a panel of the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
It took a complete team effort for ULM to pull off a 10-inning, 7-4 win over No. 4 South Alabama in the first game of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament.
BATON ROUGE — The only glaring weakness in football coach Les Miles' seven seasons as LSU's coach has been the inability to land and keep nationally highly ranked quarterbacks.
Lamar Carraway eluded tacklers by the handful during a four-time all-district career as quarterback and defensive back for the Lake Providence Panthers.
Excitement was in the air Saturday night as fans got to see and feel some exciting racing at Revolution Park, the new venue for racing and other events. Right now, there is racing on the card, and racing it was as drivers took it turn by turn around the track.
BATON ROUGE — On paper, it did not look like the 2012 LSU baseball team could replace the numbers of center fielder Mikie Mahtook, who left LSU after his junior season in 2011 as a first round selection of the Tampa Bay Rays.