• Bonine: LHSAA is committed to athletes’ safety
    Bonine: LHSAA is committed to athletes’ safety
    LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine told the House Education Committee July 13 that the association never said it would cancel its sports seasons.
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  • In sports exile, Legion baseball offers outdoor excursion
    In sports exile, Legion baseball offers outdoor excursion
    No one knows for sure what’s going to happen to high school sports. We can’t move on to Phase 3 of the recovery if the virus continues to spread to our young people.
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  • American Legion baseball begins June 20
    American Legion baseball begins June 20
    Nine stadiums will open their gates to American Legion baseball for an eight- to 10-game season over a 19-day period, beginning June 20.
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  • Missing College World Series as a rite of summers past
    Missing College World Series as a rite of summers past
    ​​​​​​​A colleague and I were headed to a pair of high school football workouts last Friday when I had a recollection of a place that seemed so far away.
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  • Don Wattigny, iconic Holy Name of Mary coach
    Don Wattigny, iconic Holy Name of Mary coach
    I recall a trip I made with former coach Don Wattigny in 2009 following a tour of his beloved high school, Holy Name of Mary.
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  • Why former LSU running back Edwards-Helaire ran to the church
    Why former LSU running back Edwards-Helaire ran to the church
    LSU running-back Clyde Edwards-Helaire was considered the “heart and soul” of the LSU offense during the Tigers’ run to the national championship at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Jan. 13.
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  • Firmin’s scouting report on me: ‘Son, you can run, but you can’t hit’
    Firmin’s scouting report on me: ‘Son, you can run, but you can’t hit’
    It seems like just a year ago that I was interviewing Firmin Simms about his plans to rekindle interest in the Biddy Basketball program he fathered as a supervisor in the New Orleans Recreation Department many years ago.
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  • Prep sports will resume but ‘feel’ different in fall
    Prep sports will resume but ‘feel’ different in fall
    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life as we have known it and has altered the landscape of sports at every level.
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  • Will Kirsch-Rooney, Legion be allowed to ‘play ball’?
    Will Kirsch-Rooney, Legion be allowed to ‘play ball’?
    Baseball in New Orleans may return as early as June 1. As Louisiana awaits the approval of Gov. John Bel Edwards to lift the stay-at-home order aimed at combating the COVID-19 pandemic...
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  • Ten to remember and honor for their on-field exploits
    Ten to remember and honor for their on-field exploits
    When one has spent the better part of the last month living in solitude, reflection comes painfully easy.
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  • Legion head awaiting green light for baseball
    Legion head awaiting green light for baseball
    If the coronavirus pandemic that has stricken the U.S. this spring is sounding the death knell for American Legion baseball, Sid Parfait isn’t aware of it.
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  • Clouds emerge as LHSAA approaches its centennial
    Clouds emerge as LHSAA approaches its centennial
    The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus has drastically changed the Louisiana High School Athletic Association’s (LHSAA) plans to acknowledge its centennial year.
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  • St. Aug, Holy Cross announce football coach hires
    St. Aug, Holy Cross announce football coach hires
    St. Augustine has named Nicholas Foster Sr., a former assistant at Edna Karr, as its new head football coach...
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  • In sports, athletes pining for their fields of dreams
    In sports, athletes pining for their fields of dreams
    As the days pass and the coronavirus continues to run its deadly course through the state and its cities, the prospect of a successful spring sports season...
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  • NFL Draft will lift spirits in a dark time
    Today, the enemy is the coronavirus. Back then, it was polio and smallpox.
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  • Clarion Herald’s 2019-20 Elite Basketball Teams
    Clarion Herald’s 2019-20 Elite Basketball Teams
    How does one separate the two best senior guards in the Catholic League when they were most instrumental in their teams’ combined 60-6 record?
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  • Indoor meet a warm-up for spring
    Indoor meet a warm-up for spring
    In preparation for the start of the 2020 outdoor track and field season, many of Louisiana’s best high school runners, jumpers and throwers converged on the Carl Maddox Fieldhouse on Feb. 22...
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  • Purple Knights earned their place in league tradition
    Purple Knights earned their place in league tradition
    It has been nine years since St. Augustine last won a state basketball championship.
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  • Riverside’s Butler asset to Baylor’s No. 1 ranking
    There are late bloomers and then there is Baylor guard Jared Butler.
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  • 1939 a magical year for Catholic school roundball
    Let’s take a sentimental journey back in time to an era long forgotten and rarely revisited by those rare individuals who remember.
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