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Y@ Speak: Tricks and treats

Lauren LaBorde — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 11:55:00 -0600

FORWARD…UPWARD…SIDEWAYS … DIAGONAL… CIRCULAR…all of these would be better than REALITY for this President.
— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) November 3, 2012

This Halloween week, New Orleans Twitter was treated to a variety of treats: amusing dispatches from trick-or-treating and the Frenchmen Street experience, deep thoughts from Norman Robinson, and an apparently drunk or really, really excited person on Bobby Jindal's Twitter feed Friday night. But is someone playing a trick on us with this Sean Payton news?…

Honey Badger apparently can't do what he wants

Alejandro de los Rios — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:33:00 -0500

Tyrann Mathieu, the New Orleans native that won the hearts of college football fans across the nation with is playmaking ability last season, is no longer playing football for LSU.

It's a pretty shocking announcement to those who have been more focused on the Olympics and the Saints preseason, but there were rumors that Mathieu was going to be disciplined in some way.…

Grand jury indicts teabagging suspect

Kandace Graves — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:24:59 -0500

An Orleans Parish grand jury today (May 17) indicted Alabama football fan Brian H. Downing — accused of putting his testicles on an unconscious LSU fan in a Krystal hamburger restaurant on Bourbon Street following the BCS Championship game Jan. 9 — on one count of sexual battery and one count of obscenity. A judge set Downing's bail at $50,000, but an arraignment date has not been set.…

Maxim names LSU "sexiest college"

Alex Woodward — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:20:56 -0600

In its March 2012 issue, rohypnol-flavored men's magazine Maxim offered its list of the sexiest things in America.

Axe-scented scientists determined the sexiest band, the sexiest place of worship, the sexiest ice cream truck — and its choice for sexiest college went to Louisiana State University, a name that really fires up the loins of anyone who dare speak its name.…

Y@ Speak: Worst week ever edition

Lauren LaBorde — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:39:00 -0600

There's really no other way to say it: this week totally sucked. Bama defeated LSU in Monday night's BCS National Championships, which made the presence of thousands of crimson-clad drunks slurring "ROWLLL TODDD" all around New Orleans even more painful.…

The video LSU fans are talking about

Kevin Allman — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:52:09 -0600

So here's the video LSU fans are buzzing about.

It seems to have been taken in the boozy hours after Alabama shut out LSU in last Monday's BCS championship, and it's clearly taken at Krystal Burger in the 100 block of Bourbon Street.…

Watch five hours of BCS action in five minutes

Alejandro de los Rios — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:32:24 -0600

BCS National Championship 2012 Timelapse from Come See About Me on Vimeo.

I created this time lapse by combining over 4,000 pictures from four cameras taken from 5:30 p.m. until after the trophy presentation.…

Mayor supports citywide curfew, well-behaved football fans

Charles Maldonado — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:57:00 -0600

At a City Hall press conference today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu congratulated City Council for passing an amendment to the city's curfew extending an 8 p.m. curfew for children under 16 seven days a week in the French Quarter and the Marigny. ("I plan to sign this & put it into effect on Monday.…

Y@ Speak: Sports, sports and more sports edition

Lauren LaBorde — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:51:00 -0600

We're back with this week's Twitter roundup, and I'd like to start off by reminding everyone that it's "Twitter," not "Twitta." This is "Twitter" with an "e" and an "r" on the end of it.…

LS-Who?: "The saddest thing ever posted to the Internet"

Kevin Allman — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:56:00 -0600

The sports boys at WIST radio say this UGA rap-video diss of the LSU football program "might be the saddest thing ever posted to the internet."*

I don't know; there's probably footage out there of an orphaned baby seal being nursed by a mother koala before a fur trapper dispatches it with a shovel to the head, all while Suzanne Vega sings an acoustic version of "Luka." But until that footage surfaces, this will have to do.…

Louisiana college football: another historic match-up

Wendy Rodrigue — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:47:01 -0500

I attended a small college, Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. In the mid-1980s we had maybe two thousand students.…

Hospital drama

Clancy DuBos — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:53:00 -0500

It’s been a rough spring for LSU. Its baseball team failed to draw a berth in the NCAA tournament.…

Tiger Truck Stop trouble

Kevin Allman — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:15:05 -0500

Remember the huge brouhaha about Tony, the live tiger at the Tiger Truck Stop just west of Baton Rouge on I-10? (Read all about it here.)…

LSU fans are "deep-fried lunatics"

Alex Woodward — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:56:00 -0500

The LSU indoctrination begins early in Louisiana — from purple-and-gold "spirit" days in grammar schools, to high school road trips to Tiger Stadium (but only for the tailgaiting). It was an expected safety school for my college-bound high school peers, or it was the final word in the college selection process.…

Charity Baby!

Red Cotton — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:23:21 -0500

Over 1,000 people paraded Monday for the resurrection of their beloved Charity Hospital. Although someone did lean over at one point and say to me, “those second liners will follow the brass bands off the plank of a ship!” HA!…

Apparently there's some sort of important baseball game tonight

Alejandro de los Rios — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:23:43 -0500

Photo lifted from The Advocate

You'll have to forgive me for not jumping on the LSU baseball bandwagon earlier but, for someone who was never a fan of college baseball, it didn't seem right to crash the festivities. (I would've felt like the one person at a Halloween party not wearing a costume.)

But now the Tigers face off against the Texas Longhorns in a deciding third game and in a few hours we'll know if Baton Rouge will celebrate yet another sports title or if college baseball will fall back into the blissful obscurity.…

New Orleans Sports Scuttlebutt 3-6-09

Alejandro de los Rios — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:40:14 -0600

The New Orleans Hornets won their sixth consecutive game as the weary Dallas Mavericks were no match for New Orleans. But the Hornets didn't just beat the Mavericks, 104-88, they showed the swagger that you would expect out of a team that prior to the season was projected to go deep into the playoffs.

Dallas was no match for streaking Hornet led by point guard Chris Paul and power forward David West. Against Dallas Both All-Stars posted double-doubles.…

Well that was an interesting week

Alejandro de los Rios — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:42:59 -0600

Photograph by Jonathan Bachman

Boy, oh boy, what a two-week stretch it's been. Apologies to anyone that wanted an in-depth report on what happened to Melvin Ely's hair or if that French Quarter Flyer survived to live another day (my money is on he's just fine, it wasn't his first mid-air mishap, after all), but you can thank the mess that is Mardi Gras and corresponding horde of out-of-town visitors for the absence.…

Les Miles: Recruiter to the Stars

Alejandro de los Rios — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:42:59 -0600

Yet another reason why Nick Saban's 2009 is off to a bad start: Les Miles. Sure, LSU went 7–5 during the regular season (including a dismal 3–5 SEC record), but just look at how the Tigers finished their season compared to Alabama.…

LSU fans have great phone plans

Alejandro de los Rios — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:05:22 -0500

I've always wondered about sports fans who find the phone numbers of opposing players and decide to flood their voicemails with threatening calls. Not because it's intrusive to the player, sort of creepy and borderline psychotic (all of which are also true) but because I just can't fathom the effort it takes to find a player's number and dial it repeatedly.…

LSU Fans Have Their Priorities in Order

Alejandro de los Rios — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:42:10 -0500

Photo lifted from The Big Lead

Up in the North East, where I'm from, college football isn't nearly as important as, say, pro football or even college basketball.

It must be a regional thing.…

Unsurprising News: Marijuana found on Snoop Dogg's bus

Alejandro de los Rios — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:34:38 -0500

A day after meeting with Les Miles at the Rotary Club in Baton Rouge, Snoop Dogg was on his tour bus when it was pulled over for expired tags. Attorney Chris Lewis says that the bus' tags were not expired.…

Les Miles is down with the Hippity-Hop Music

Alejandro de los Rios — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:13:10 -0500

Words cannot even begin to describe this picture. First of all, where's Les Miles hat?…

From the "Awww Department": UGA VI has died

Alejandro de los Rios — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:56:26 -0500

by Alejandro de los Rios

NOTE: LSU Tiger Fans would be remiss in using the term "Tiger Bait" for the next day or so. At least in regards to the Georgia mascot.…

New Orleans Submits Bid to Host Final Four

Alejandro de los Rios — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:40:19 -0500

by Alejandro de los Rios

New Orleans was among ten cities to submit a bid to host the NCAA Final Four between 2012-2016. The other cities looking to host are Dallas, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Atlanta, Minniapolis, St. Louis, San Antonio, Detroit and Houston.…