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Body Shots: Farewell and thank you from a graduating Tiger faithful

By Rob Landry
Sports Columnist
December 4, 2011

It was in my blood from the very beginning. I was a Tiger from birth. I never had a chance to escape that fate. My parents both graduated from LSU. In fact, they met here. My grandparents both attended...

Golf: No. 3 Lady Tigers win two tournaments

By Luke Johnson
Sports Contributor
December 4, 2011

Both the Tigers and the No. 3 Lady Tigers enjoyed success in the early portion of their 2011-12 golf seasons, though they came into the year with two different sets of expectations. A lot was expected...

LSU sports nab top recruits this fall

By Morgan Wampold
Sports Contributor
December 4, 2011

Several LSU sports added top recruits to their rosters this fall. The men's basketball team acquired Malik Morgan, the No. 75 ranked overall player on Rivals Top 100 list. Morgan, a native of River Ridge,...

Tennis teams progress through fall season

By Adrian Wintz
Sports Contributor
December 4, 2011

The LSU tennis teams found their rhythm toward the end of the fall season and finished on a high note. In the final three tournaments of the fall season, the men's and women's teams each had two doubles...

Football: Seven players suspended through course of undefeated season

By Hunter Paniagua
Sports Writer
December 4, 2011

The 2011 football season almost became as much about who didn't take the field for the Tigers as who actually suited up. While senior quarterback Jordan Jefferson's suspension grabbed the majority of national...

Soccer: Tigers rank No. 2 SEC, fall short in reaching conference semi-finals

By Michael Gegenheimer
Sports Contributor
December 4, 2011

Despite a No. 18 ranking, five players named to a postseason team and a Homecoming queen, in the end, the LSU soccer team came a few goals short. After going 13-6-1, LSU earned a spot in the NCAA tournament...

Men’s Basketball: Underclassmen lead Tigers during rocky fall schedule

By Chris Abshire
Sports Writer
December 4, 2011

If there was a theme song for the fall portion of the LSU men's basketball team's fall schedule, it would have been "On the Road Again." The Tigers (5-3) played six of their first eight games away from...

Mathieu ignites Heisman speculation with stellar performance against Georgia

By Michael Gegenheimer
Sports Contributor
December 4, 2011

The Honey Badger must have wanted the MVP trophy, because that's just what he took. Sophomore cornerback Tyrann Mathieu gave the Tigers the spark they needed to nab their 11th Southeastern Conference Championship...

Football: Tigers trounce Bulldogs to nab SEC title and shift focus to national championship

By Mark Clements
Sports Writer
December 4, 2011

It's here. The game Tiger fans have been waiting for is finally on the horizon. With No. 1 LSU's 42-10 stomping of No. 12 Georgia in the Southeastern Conference Championship game, the Tigers took home...

Women’s Basketball: LSU finishes semester 3-3, looks to decrease turnovers

By
Sports Contributor
December 4, 2011

The LSU women's basketball team entered the season with high expectations after Nikki Caldwell, former UCLA coach and Pac-10 Coach of the Year, agreed to coach the team in April. Six games into the young...

Volleyball: Tigers win SEC West for seventh year, fall short of national tourney

By Albert Burford
Sports Contributor
December 4, 2011

The LSU volleyball team's 2011 season didn't produce lucky number seven — the Tigers fell short of the NCAA tournament for the first time in seven years. In the end, the Tigers won most of the games...

Football: LSU has first undefeated season in 50 years, beats eight ranked teams

By Hunter Paniagua
Sports Writer
December 4, 2011

When ESPN College Gameday selects four games from one team to showcase in a season, it says something about the team and its schedule. No. 1 LSU defeated eight ranked teams — five on the road —...