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Soccer: LSU ties Rice in home opener

By Bria Turner
Sports Contributor
August 24, 2012

In front of a record home crowd, the LSU soccer team played a grueling double-overtime thriller with Rice on Friday night, earning a 1-1 draw in a rain-soaked LSU Soccer Stadium. "We certainly took a big...

Soccer: Freshman forward grew up with a different kind of football

By Bria Turner
Sports Contributor
August 24, 2012

Fernanda Piña no longer lives in a country where dribbling is automatically associated with soccer. She now lives in a country where a different type of football is the most popular sport. For...

Volleyball: Tigers fall to No. 2 Texas

By Mike Gegenheimer
Contributing Writer
August 24, 2012

  The LSU volleyball team will have to wait another day for an opportunity at its first win of the season after falling to No. 2 Texas in straight sets (25-12, 25-19, 25-19) during the season opener...

Volleyball: Tigers prepare for opening weekend against No. 2 Texas

By Tyler Nunez
Sports Contributor
August 24, 2012

In most cases, a team in a tough conference would hope to have a soft non-conference schedule in order to garner a few easy wins early in the season and gain some momentum. But according to LSU volleyball...

Caldwell wins gold

By Tyler Nunez
Sports Contributor
August 24, 2012

LSU women's basketball coach Nikki Caldwell may have spent the last year promoting purple and gold, but this summer she represented red, white and blue. The USA Basketball Women's U-18 National Team selected...

Football: Bolden’s road to LSU a ‘blessing’

By Chandler Rome
Sports Writer
August 23, 2012

For most high school football stars in the Northeast, it was a tantalizing offer. The opportunity to play under Joe Paterno, a living legend who transcended his sport and his school as he guided Penn State...

Football: Veteran offensive linemen get preseason hype

By Lawrence Barreca
Sports Contributor
August 23, 2012

Editor's Note: This is the fourth in an eight-part series previewing each position heading into 2012. The 2012 LSU offensive line is expected to be a key strength for the program this season because of...

Freshmen swimmers’ patriotic suits part of Olympic superfandom

By Chris Abshire
Sports Writer
August 23, 2012

In a city teeming with the world's most diverse sporting crowd, two LSU freshmen couldn't be mistaken for anything other than Americans. Tiger swimmers Colin Finnegan and Grant Grenfell garnered international...

Recruitment: Moses creating waves at University

By Lawrence Barreca
Sports Contributor
August 23, 2012

University High's Dylan Moses isn't an average eighth grade student. He has become a myth of sorts to many LSU fans; he's the young man everyone has heard of, but only few have seen perform. And when his...

Caldwell wins gold

By Tyler Nunez
Sports Contributor
August 23, 2012

LSU women's basketball coach Nikki Caldwell may have spent the last year promoting purple and gold, but this summer she represented red, white and blue. The USA Basketball Women's U-18 National Team selected...

Tigers prepare for opening weekend against No. 2 Texas

By Tyler Nunez
Sports Contributor
August 23, 2012

Lounging outside of Garden District Coffee, the new director of the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture takes a long sip of his dark java before speaking. "While I am the director, I'm only a...

In this October 8, 2011 file photo, Punter Brad Wing kicks the ball away against the Florida Gators.

Cool hand Luke: Punters from a land Down Under

By Luke Johnson
Sports Editor
August 23, 2012

Keyboards stopped clacking, faces contorted and heads snapped toward a mystery reporter after his question during one of LSU coach Les Miles' weekly press luncheons last November. What did he just say?...