Louisiana State University
Powers Remain and Threats Lurk as Women’s Sweet 16 Is Set
Ohio State, among the country’s best programs behind the arc, will meet a feisty Texas team — “Punch first, that’s always our motto,” Aliyah Matharu, a junior guard, said — that did not allow more than 56 points in either of its first two tournament games but is still carping over its communication on defense. […]
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N.C.A.A. Women’s Tournament: UConn Handles Mercer
After Arizona handed Connecticut a humbling loss in last season’s Final Four, Geno Auriemma, the Huskies’ head coach, was blunt about his team’s level of maturity. “When we’re high and when we’re on top of the world, we think everything’s great,” Auriemma said at the time. “And when things don’t go our way, there’s a […]
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Big Contracts, Big Buyouts, Big Pressure: College Football Coaches Hit the Jackpot
The contract terms for Louisiana State University’s new football coach promise an unusually enormous payout for mediocrity: If the Tigers win just half of their regular-season games, de rigueur for a program with three national championships since 2003, Brian Kelly will receive $500,000 — on top of at least $9 million a year in other […]
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In Louisiana, Alligator Finds a Place at the Tailgate
The alligator was so grateful, it asked to be made a part of the tribe’s culture. This gave the tribal members permission to name themselves after the alligator, creating a new Coushatta clan, said Eli Langley, 23, a tribal storyteller and activist familiar with the tribe’s history. The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana mostly roasted alligators […]
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