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2026 LSU Baseball Position Preview: Second Base

LSU wasn’t just good up the middle in 2025, they were great. Historically great in fact. The tandem of Steven Milam and Daniel Dickinson seemingly turned two every chance they had, and the Tigers as a team fielded a program-best .981 last season. Jay Johnson prides himself as an offensive coach, but he values defense. […]

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2026 LSU Baseball Position Preview: First Base

Jared Jones maybe isn’t the greatest first basemen in LSU Baseball history, but he had one of the better careers in program history. Bear Jones appeared in 189 games and started 181 times the past three seasons. Over that span he earned Freshman All-American honors and helped LSU win the 2023 national championship; two years […]

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#6 LSU Demolishes #24 Alabama 103-63

Now that was impressive. The #6 Tigers of LSU (21-2, 7-2) picked up its seventh straight conference win and beat the absolute hell out of #24 Alabama (19-4, 5-3) along the way by a cool 40 points. For the 12th time this season, LSU cracked the century mark. That’s a new SEC record and the […]

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2026 LSU Baseball Preview: Catchers

Aside from all of the playoff football at both the professional and college level, January is, to me, the single worst month of the year. Why? Because it’s the last hurdle before the baseball season begins. Well friends, we have officially cleared that hurdle. We’re onto February and that means First Pitch is officially less […]

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LSU Defeats Mizzou in Entertaining Road Meet

800 miles were worth it in the end. The back-to-back SEC champion #2 LSU gymnastics team exorcised some demons Friday with a 197.675-197.500 win at #7 Missouri, their first win over Mizzou in Columbia since 2020. LSU put up a very respectable road score, and it was even better considering that head coach Jay Clark […]

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LSU Gym Faces Missouri in Major Road Test

Hopefully this meet isn’t as bumpy as my drive up. The back-to-back SEC champion #2 LSU gymnastics team is back on the road for the third time in the team’s first four weeks of competition. The Tigers sit at 3-1-1 and 1-1 in SEC play after opening their home slate with a 198.050-195.775 win over […]

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NFLSU Championship Weekend Recap

Both of Sunday’s conference championship games had very close final scores despite two wildly different energies. However, both games featured LSU alumni securing their first Super Bowl appearance. Let’s break them both down. Patriots 10 at Broncos 7 The blizzard-like conditions of this game made life tough on our Louisiana boys. Will Campbell had some […]

8 days ago | 2 reads

LSU Gym Trounces Kentucky, Surpasses 198

Damn, it feels good to be back home. The back-to-back SEC champion #4 LSU gymnastics team made their home debut in record-breaking fashion Friday in a massive 198.050-195.775 walloping of #39 Kentucky. A home-opening record 13,516 people piled into the PMAC to see the Tigers set a new record for highest home-opening score. That crowd […]

10 days ago | 0 reads

Jordan Seaton Transferring to LSU

Lane Kiffin was promising fireworks once the transfer portal opened up and by God has he delivered on that. You might have thought LSU was done after adding Sam Leavitt, the No. 1 overall player out of the portal. They weren’t. You might have though LSU was finished after getting Princewill Umanmielen, the No. 1 […]

11 days ago | 0 reads

LSU Gym Finally Returns Home to Face Kentucky

It’s finally time for a home meet. The back-to-back SEC champion #4 LSU gymnastics team is home for the first time this season. The Tigers sit a 2-1-1 and 0-1 in SEC play following a 197.200-196.850 loss at Georgia, their first loss to UGA in a decade. After far too long on the road, the […]

12 days ago | 0 reads

LSU Baseball Opens Top-2 Nationally

Football season is drawing to a close, basketball season is right around the halfway point which can only mean one thing: baseball season is upon us. The 2026 college baseball season is just a tick over three weeks away and the defending national champion Tigers are opening up at or near the top of the […]

15 days ago | 1 read

NFLSU Divisional Round Recap

The Divisional Round of the year’s NFL Playoffs gave us two all-time classics and… two other games. However, all four games featured LSU Tigers in action. Spoiler alert: the only teams remaining without an LSU Tiger on their rosters were eliminated, so this should be fun! Bills 30 at Broncos 33 (OT) Tre’Davious White had […]

16 days ago | 1 read

Tigers Pick Up Second Straight Ranked Win, Beat OU 91-72

We are in the thick of the college basketball season, and the #6 LSU women’s basketball team is starting to look like the team we all expected: championship contenders. The Tigers (17-2, 3-2) went into Norman and blowout the #13 ranked Oklahoma Sooners (14-4, 2-3) 91-72 Sunday afternoon. It’s LSU’s third straight SEC win after […]

16 days ago | 1 read

LSU Drops SEC Opener at Georgia

“Nobody beats Georgia 25 times in a row,” Georgia probably said after winning. For the fourth consecutive year, the back-to-back SEC champion LSU gymnastics team lost their SEC road opener. This time, the #2 Tigers lost to a surging #8 Georgia 197.200-196.850 in a meet that could’ve been worse if not for the team’s resiliency. […]

17 days ago | 1 read

LSU Adds 7 Portal Additions on Friday

Friday was the arguably the single busiest day of Lane Kiffin’s first offseason as head coach of LSU, as the Tigers added seven different players out of the transfer portal. The portal officially closed last night at 11:00 P.M. CT, but that was the deadline for players to enter, not decide on their new destination. […]

18 days ago | 1 read

LSU Travels to Georgia to Open SEC Slate

Welcome to conference play. The back-to-back SEC champion #2 LSU gymnastics program is back in action tonight to kick off another season of Friday Night Heights. The Tigers sit at 2-0-1 after a phenomenal opening performance in the most-watched regular season gymnastics meet in history. The first dual meet of the season is the renewal […]

19 days ago | 1 read

Tigers Fill Out Quarterback, Running Back Rooms

We’ve come a long way from LSU having one total running back and quarterback. LSU’s not slowing down with restocking its roster via the transfer portal, and between Monday and Tuesday the Tigers officially have a healthy amount of depth at both the quarterback and running back positions. Monday news came out that former Wisconsin […]

20 days ago | 1 read

NFLSU Wild Card Weekend Recap

The first weekend of the NFL Playoffs featured four absolutely wild games, and two blowouts by teams that were littered with LSU alumni. You’re gonna wanna read this breakdown. Rams 34 at Panthers 31 Omar Speights had two tackles and Damien Lewis blocked valiantly. NFLSU Score: 3/10 Packers 27 at Bears 31 No Tigers were […]

21 days ago | 3 reads

Tale of the Tape: Collegiate Quad

It’s time y’all got some deep education. Welcome to the first Tale of the Tape, a new series in which I review one or two routines from each event of LSU’s most recent meet to explain this sport in a more detailed way than usual. After three years of ridiculously long recaps that were late, […]

21 days ago | 4 reads

Caden Durham Returning to LSU

We’re getting the band back together. Rising junior running back Caden Durham announced today that he is withdrawing his name from the transfer portal and returning to LSU. Durham initially put his name into the portal the day after it opened, and since then LSU has added two running backs from the portal: Raycine Guillory, […]

22 days ago | 3 reads

Reports: Sam Leavitt Expected to Sign with LSU

Last night LSU got a guy. Roughly 12 hours later, LSU got the guy. Highly sought after quarterback Sam Leavitt is expected to sign with LSU per numerous outlets. While he has yet to put pen to paper, those who would know (Pete Thamel, Ross Dellegner etc.,) have all reported the same thing: Leavitt is […]

22 days ago | 4 reads

Landen Clark Commits to LSU

Our long national nightmare is over: LSU has added a quarterback. Sunday evening it was reported by On3 that former Elon quarterback Landen Clark would be transferring to LSU. Clark then confirmed the news by tweeting out the ole “Geaux Tigers.” Clark picked LSU over Kentucky, Michigan, and James Madison. Clark comes to LSU as […]

23 days ago | 1 read

Tigers in the Majors: Alex Bregman Gets PAID

Former LSU great Alex Bregman is now a very, very rich man. The former Tiger is trading in his Red Sox for Cubbie Blue as Bregman signed a five-year $175 million deal with the Chicago Cubs Saturday night. A three-time All-Star, Bregman opted out of a $40 million player option with Boston to hit free […]

23 days ago | 3 reads

Horns Down! #12 LSU Beats #2 Texas 70-65

What a difference a week can make. After dropping to 0-2 in SEC play, the LSU women’s basketball team (16-2, 2-2) have bounced back in a massive way with a potential season-altering win over #2 Texas (18-1, 3-1) Sunday afternoon in the PMAC. It is by far and away LSU’s best win of the season […]

23 days ago | 3 reads