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For now, it seems, the BOLO on the Honey Badger at McNeese State is looking more like a snipe hunt.You may have heard, but it’s been mentioned in passing that LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu, the aforementioned Honey Badger, has been permanently dismissed from the Tigers football team following what …

Pardon me, but I am feeling a little frantic at the moment.You see, I just recently agreed to join a fantasy football league and draft day is fast approaching.I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Big deal. You and about 50 million other red-blooded Americans are going to do the same thing …

I don’t know about you, but the 2012 London Summer Olympics is two days away from its opening ceremony and I’m stoked.I’ve always had an affinity for the Summer Games. When I was a kid, they would be on television during the summer and I remember seeing most of the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta …

The world of sports is a funny old place.In the world outside of sports, most people will tell you that you can try, but you can’t be perfect and mostly that’s true. You might try to compile a perfect driving record or strive for clean copy in your sports column, but, generally, you’re going to get …

It’s only late June, but I’ve had it.The Euro 2012 soccer tournament is over. The NBA finals, which featured two impossible-to-cheer-for teams in LeBronville (Miami) and not-Seattle (Oklahoma City), are over. The Boston Red Sox are (shudder) scraping the bottom of the American League East.Summer is …

Louisiana is not exactly known as a hiking hotbed.Our state’s highest point, something laughably called Driskill “Mountain” is a whole 535 feet above sea level. Locally, about the only true hiking experience is through the trails at Sam Houston Jones State Park. It was, therefore, no surprise to me …

It was early in the first round of their bout at Bellator 69 on May 18 when Lake Charles fighter Josh Quayhagen hit his opponent, Cliff Wright, Jr., square in the family jewels.It wasn’t intentional, but there it was, a strike to the junk leaving Wright in what, from where I sat on press row, …

So, it’s NBA playoffs time… (sigh) again.This used to be an exciting time of the year for me. Watching the old Pistons-Lakers “basketbrawl” series or the Michael Jordan-Larry Bird showdowns on CBS were part and parcel of the end of the school year for me back in the day.Now, I’ve got no love for …

O, NFL Draft, whence the drama?Don’t get me wrong, NFL Draft weekend is my favorite time of the year, but recent trends have taken a lot of the clowning out of the circus, so to speak.In past years, the team with the top pick has left much of the viewing audience hanging over which of the best …

Take it from recent experience, nothing makes you feel older than hurting yourself doing something simple, something most other younger people take for granted.After years away from competitive sports, I played my first two games in a local co-ed soccer league without incident. This involved …