LSU All-American and Heisman Finalist Tyrann Mathieu, the "Honey Badger," was dismissed from the LSU football program during the 2012 season for violating team policy and testing positive during a random drug test. Matthieu was released by head coach Les Miles and Matthieu's future at LSU remained uncertain, that's until today.
Kids wanting to be just like their athletic heroes is nothing new, but a Pop Warner football coach emulating the New Orleans Saints' "Bountygate" program, where players were paid extra to injure members of the other team? That's a twist. A very upsetting twist, if you ask the parents of the 10- and 11-year-olds who got the short end of this deal.
It’s September, which means the nation is starting to go football crazy. Ohio woman Janine Fulton recently took football insanity to a new level when she filled a couple official size Wilson balls with pills, marijuana, cigarettes, cell phones, and cell phone chargers and tried to toss them into the Richland Correctional Institution in Mansfield, OH.
We are just hours away from the kickoff to the 2012 UL Ragin Cajun football season. The Cajuns are coming off of their most successful football season in school history. Let's re-live the kick heard around "Cajun Nation" as the Cajuns won the 2012 R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Superdome on December 17, 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Aside from picking up branches and raking leaves in the aftermath of Hurricane Isacc, many schools were forced to reschedule their first week of high school football games. Many of the games in Acadiana were rescheduled in anticipation of Isaac causing more school closures as we drew closer to the end of the week.
Yesterday was a good day for the Brees family since Drew and Brittany welcomed their third baby boy into the world! Drew has always been a family man and Callen Christian Brees just makes this star quaterback and his wife happier.
The countdown to the 2012 UL-Lafayette football season is well underway, and if you weren't ready for it before, this video will surely get you motivated for the upcoming season. See what the players and coaches have been going through in preparation for one of the most anticipated football seasons ever at UL.
There is little more brutal in a free society than football practice in August. The Tigers of the University of Missouri were going through that horror show when, on the horizon, appeared two coeds, tan and lithe.
The shapely ladies were running the steps of Faurot Field. Or were they just visions? Pleasant thoughts that dance about the brain right before it shuts down with heat stroke?
After UL's victory in the 2011 New Orleans bowl and months of hard training, we are three weeks away from the home opener at Cajun Field against Lamar. Be prepared to wear red because Coach Hud wants YOU in the stadium on game day.
Like most football fans, I am beyond ready for the 2012 football season. We have reached that time of the year in sports, in my opinion, where there is nothing really exciting going on. Sure, the Olympics are days away, but nothing in my book replaces college and professional football season
