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LSU’s Jay Johnson on calling potential Dylan Crews/Paul Skenes draft history for MLBN: ‘I’m just so proud of both of them.’
"Let’s just say the Pittsburgh and Washington organizations are going to be changed by drafting either of these guys. It doesn’t matter who goes first and who goes second. It’s an elite, future All-Star player or pitcher that is a Hall of Fame human being."
Men’s College World Series is most-watched ever on ESPN networks
LSU's win over Florida was a viewership hit for ESPN.
Paul Finebaum says LSU ruling means schools should ‘cheat like crazy’
"If it doesn’t matter to the people who govern the sport, and by the way, that includes everyone who sits in on these meetings and on these management councils, then it’s certainly not going to bother me anymore."
LSU’s Angel Reese and Flau’jae Johnson to host WNBA Draft watch-along show on B/R app
"The pair will weigh in and comment on the first round picks and discuss their championship run, along with all the fanfare and conversation it drove in the days following."
‘Angel Reese’ shows up on SNL: ‘Then white girls lose, and suddenly it’s All Teams Matter.’
"In the history of sports, when you lose, you take your ass home. But then white girls lose, and suddenly it's All Teams Matter."
Skip Bayless says Jill Biden inviting Iowa to the White House came across as ‘white racism’
"Let’s bring poor Caitlin’s white Iowa team to the White House and celebrate them too...It came across, to me, as this unintentional, unwitting, sort of naïve white racism."
Shannon Sharpe believes Jill Biden’s White House invite to Iowa may cost Joe Biden reelection
"Did you forget who helped put your husband in the White House? You’re gonna find out a very hard lesson in ’24."
Record-breaking ratings for LSU-Iowa women’s national championship prove sport’s growth
ESPN analyst Rebecca Lobo: "It's been a long time coming, but it feels like more people are finally ready to fully embrace the women's game."
LSU’s win over Iowa is most-watched women’s college basketball game ever
The NCAA Women's Tournament ends with a truly staggering audience.
Sports media world all worked up over Angel Reese’s “you can’t see me” gesture to Caitlin Clark
The reactions to Reese's gesture says a lot about the sports media world.
South Carolina-LSU is most-watched regular season women’s college basketball game since 2010
A week after Fox set a record, ESPN topped it.
LSU beat writer zings Brian Kelly during press conference
It wound up being all in good fun.
The College GameDay panel’s pick of Arkansas over LSU is the latest unanimous prediction to go wrong
Once again, unanimous picks ended poorly.
Paul Hornung, NFL Hall of Famer and Heisman Trophy winner, passes away at 84
Hornung was a broadcaster for 30-plus years following his playing career.
SEC COVID-19 issues see Alabama-LSU threatened, Auburn-Mississippi State postponed, problems elsewhere
One SEC game this week has already been postponed, and others could be, including the CBS game of Alabama-LSU.
LSU AD Scott Woodward says head coach Ed Orgeron “was a bit too transparent” when he said “most” LSU players have had COVID-19
"There's lies, damn lies and statistics. We're very careful with (coronavirus), and as long as I think we have the proper oversight with what we're doing, we're in a very good direction."
LSU-Clemson CFP title game up one percent from last year’s title game, but fourth-lowest title game over the past decade
ESPN's initial MegaCast audience this year was 25,588,000 viewers, 308,000 ahead of last year's.
ESPN CFP national championship streaming issues prompt widespread complaints
The ESPN app hit some streaming issues Monday night, causing problems for those hoping to watch the CFP title game that way.
An ESPN cameraman got trucked on LSU’s CFP championship game run out of the tunnel
LSU ran over an ESPN cameraman entering the field Monday.
College Football Playoff semifinal ratings up six percent year-over-year but still can’t match New Year’s Day games
Clemson-Ohio State drew 21.2 million viewers, up nine percent from last year's late-night semi.
LSU – Alabama ratings up 47 percent from 2018 for CBS, highest since 2011
LSU - Alabama was the second-most-watched regular-season college football game since 2011.
CBS’ Brad Nessler talks preparing to call LSU-Alabama: “You have to be ready for a big play on just about every snap.”
"It's fun to call a game when there's points and there's strategy and it's not just every yard is such a grind and every third down is 'God, is anybody ever going to convert a third down?' You've got these two offenses that can score literally in 11 seconds."
LSU-Alabama to be played in afternoon for first time since 2010, but Paul Finebaum’s “does not have the cachet it used to” take...
Alabama-LSU has been a primetime CBS game every year since 2010, but it won't be this year thanks to CBS' pick of Notre Dame-Georgia as their one contractually-allowed primetime game.