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It was the kick start to a 10-win LSU football season last year: A 33-17 win over Miami in Arlington, Texas, had the Tigers’ arrow pointed up as the Hurricanes were diminished to the pigskin version of a tropical wave.

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.

Clarion Herald editor Peter Finney Jr. spoke Tuesday with Brother Martin principal Ryan Gallagher, a board member of the newly constituted Louisiana Select Association (LSA), which has been given the authority by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) to oversee “Select” school state championships in football, basketball, baseball and softball.

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.

A steetcar ride down Canal Street will take passengers past a historic church parish that has been closed since 2005.

As a couple, they went to Disney World 18 times from 2012 to 2018. But, since Rick Gaille passed on July 1 of last year, his wife Elaine has not been back.

While high school sports are at a standstill during these few months that the students are on vacation, the temporary hiatus becomes the perfect time to venture through the pages of history, which has become easier by reading microfilm pages of The Times-Picayune and other local newspapers during the heyday of daily publications.

Growing up, I must have been one of the few kids in Jefferson Parish who had never heard of Ray Berni. But, as this former playground basketball coach at Bright Gym in Metairie grew gravely ill and then passed, it was stunning to see the out pouring of love and respect on social media.

There are four events that helped mold the evolution of high school football in New Orleans and Louisiana over the decades. The first occurred in 1929 when the Louisiana High School Athletic Association opened membership to private and parochial schools. It was “no big deal” at the time because the state’s public schools outnumbered the non-publics 30-fold.

The finality of the word “goodbye” has always saddened me. I’ve said it too many times in my life. I did it again last week, with a tear in my eye, when I looked down on the body of the great Otis Washington as it lay in state in St. Augustine High School’s chapel. I knew I would never see the coach again.

This was not the first press conference that reporters attended where they knew the answers before the questions were asked. And, so it was on a Tuesday at the SEC meetings in Sandestin, Florida, LSU men’s basketball coach Will Wade was to make his first public comments since he was suspended and reinstated by the university after a report of an FBI wiretap. You know, the one detailing Wade making “a strong offer” to a recruit, believed to be freshman guard Javonte Smart.

It was a record-breaking year for three local Catholic school track and field performers, and all are worthy of post-season recognition for their achievement  on the Clarion Herald’s 2019 Elite Track and Field Team.

The reporting began moments after the Pelicans won the NBA draft lottery. Zion Williamson, college basketball’s player of the year and the presumed first pick, was allegedly unhappy about the result. On Twitter, an ESPN reporter wrote that Zion quickly was whisked out of the room after the Pelicans won the lottery.

Jalen Womble’s essay about the value of education in his life earned the Holy Cross senior and football captain a scholarship worth $20,000 at the recent Allstate Sugar Bowl National Football Foundation/College Football Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

Those frequent May showers have come with a little extra lagniappe for LSU baseball fans. That is, clouds of discontent. After getting routed twice at Oregon State in the regional round of the NCAA Tournament a year ago, baseball fortunes were supposed to take a turn for the better.

It is interesting what we remember about our moms. In the fall of 1969, I was a grade-school student at St. Jerome school in Kenner and had the following conversation with my mother. Me: “Mom, it’s the World Series, Orioles vs. Mets, and I am just not feeling well.”

Neither inclement weather nor an elite field of athletes could overcome what a pair of local Catholic school seniors had in store for them.

Just call them, finally, the Queens of the Diamond. Until last week, Dominican had won state titles in nearly every sport except for softball. Now Dominican can claim that lofty achievement as well.

Those looking for the Saints to draft a field-stretching wide receiver with their first selection in the NFL draft were disappointed. The Saints went with the least sexy selection, drafting a center, Texas A&M’s Erik McCoy, in the second round.