Two schools that were football fledglings in 1964 are now vying for the District 9-5A championship and possibly for the No. 1 seed in Division I.

The 64th annual CYO Basketball Classic will have a full field of 16 teams, including 10-time champion St. Augustine, which returns after a three-year hiatus.

I’m not without guilt, and I’m not going to cast a stone at a news industry or its colleagues who determine its business model. So, I offer this admonition as a constructive observation learned from my experience in the print news media about the wants and desires of readers:

In 1936, the average cost of a new house was $3,925. Gasoline was 10 cents a gallon for your new $665 Studebaker automobile, assuming you earned an annual salary of about $1,713. That year, Margaret Mitchell’s epic story of the old South, “Gone With the Wind,” was published.

The Academy of Our Lady  (AOL) is in the midst of a magical season, having won 16 of its 18 matches entering the final weeks of the season.

The difference between Jesuit’s football team of Week 4, when the Blue Jays were throttled by Brother Martin, 31-7, and the team in Week 5, when they defeated archrival Holy Cross, 20-14, was the return of a pair of Lukes from the injured list.

It had been 50 years since a tri-parish high school football team in the highest classification entered the sixth week of the prep football season without having yielded a single touchdown.

It has been 23 years since a school from the three-parish metro area entered the fifth week of the football season without allowing a single touchdown to the opposition.

Celia Hughes was a stay-at-home wife, living in a country whose language was as distant as its shores from her Texas home. Her husband, Boyd, a contractor for the U.S. Air Force in Okinawa, was busy with work and his second profession, and their three children were grown. So Celia did what any bored housewife with extra time on her hands would do, right?

Traditions die hard in a historic city like New Orleans and its metropolitan area. Regardless of the changes brought about by time, the folks here cling to things that have significant meaning in their lives.

Fourteen teams – 12 of which have winning records – will take part in the annual Catholic League Volleyball Tournament, co-hosted by Ursuline and Dominican high schools Sept. 20-21. Matches begin at 4 p.m. on the tournament’s first day, and at 8 a.m. on Sept. 21 at both host schools.

Two reigning state volleyball champions may be off to unusually slow starts, but there are other aspiring Catholic school teams ready to make their moves.

As a siren named Dorian churned toward a collision with Florida’s Atlantic coast, she brought to mind other meteorological Valkyries that wreaked havoc on the New Orleans area over the decades.

“Safety first” will be the watch words at all high school events sanctioned by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association.

During the reclassification process that takes place every two years for schools in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association, schools moving up or down in class and changing districts is not an unusual outcome.

Following the theme of the 1977 Fleetwood Mac hit song, “Go Your Own Way,” principals of so-called Select schools chose to do just that in four sports beginning with the 2019 high school football post-season. Basketball (boys and girls), baseball and softball are the other sports these schools will manage during their respective playoffs. 

Games start at 7 p.m. unless noted otherwise. Some games are subject to change.

Lou Brownson and  Harold “Hoss” Memtsas were two of the most competitive head football coaches in the New Orleans Prep League. But they shared the bond of a sincere friendship, regardless of the ferociousness of their teams when they met on the field of battle.

It’s never easy, most often rather painful, to say goodbye to a good friend.  I did so 25 years ago when I lost my lifelong friend, a dialysis patient whose veins could no longer support the weekly ordeal after 15 years of treatments.

It was an interesting re-do. If there is such a thing. The website bleacherreport.com did the 2017 NFL Draft over. In the first round of the re-worked draft, the Saints had three of the top nine selections.