Scott Rabalais

Scott Rabalais: Is LSU a good team? Yes, but not yet good enough for SEC big boys.

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated 21 hrs ago

The word for the day is “maddening.”

Scott Rabalais: Three things we learned about LSU from Saturday's victory over UCLA

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated 22 hrs ago

Sports columnist Scott Rabalais with his three takeaways from LSU's 34-17 victory Saturday over UCLA in Tiger Stadium:

LSU gymnasts return to PMAC for NCAA championship ring ceremony before UCLA game

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Sep 21, 2024

There is always glitter when the LSU gymnastics team is in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

Scott Rabalais: Next two games versus UCLA, South Alabama can be the reset LSU needs

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 20, 2024

College football is my favorite form of football by far, but it’s still lacking something. Something the LSU Tigers could have used this season.

Olympic gold medalist to make official visit on big recruiting weekend for LSU gymnastics

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Staff writer
Updated Sep 20, 2024

The 2024 Olympics is over, but the quest to land a 2024 Olympian is now in high gear for the LSU gymnastics program.

Who ya got? Our LSU beat team makes its picks for the Tigers' first-ever home game with UCLA

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 20, 2024

Wilson Alexander

Scott Rabalais: 'Southern gentleman' Eddie Merrins was golf legend for both LSU and UCLA

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 18, 2024

It’s one of the archetypal American dreams: Small-town boy grows up and finds a way to make it big in Hollywood.

Scott Rabalais: Opinions of Brian Kelly's tenure at LSU so far are mixed and complicated

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Sep 16, 2024

Despite coming out on the winning side at South Carolina by a 36-33 score, there are a lot of issues facing the LSU football program.

Scott Rabalais: Les Miles would have loved LSU's flawed 36-33 win at South Carolina

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Sep 14, 2024

COLUMBIA, S.C. — They were coming.

Three and out: Sports columnist Scott Rabalais breaks down the LSU-South Carolina game

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Sep 14, 2024

1. BULL DURHAM

Scott Rabalais: South Carolina a different sort of 'Red Alert Roxie' game for LSU

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Sep 13, 2024

In 2007, en route to LSU winning its third national championship, then-coach Les Miles pulled a doozie of a trick play out from under his high hat against the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Who ya got? Our LSU beat team makes its picks for the Tigers' SEC opener at South Carolina

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 13, 2024

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Scott Rabalais: Francine won't change LSU's game but hurricanes have affected the Tigers before

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 11, 2024

What is it about LSU-South Carolina playing each other in football that brings out bad weather?

LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne talks decision to return, critics in 'The Money Game' series

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 11, 2024

The LSU gymnastics team had just posted its best score ever in a 198.475-196.200 victory Feb. 2 over Arkansas.

Scott Rabalais: Did Brian Kelly make right move not signing more DTs in offseason?

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 9, 2024

As Brian Kelly spoke to reporters at his Monday news conference to kick off South Carolina week, Jacobian Guillory was having surgery on his torn Achilles from Saturday’s game against Nicholls State.

Three and out: Scott Rabalais shares his takeaways from LSU's win over Nicholls

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 7, 2024

Sports columnist Scott Rabalais with three observations from LSU’s home opener Saturday against Nicholls State in Tiger Stadium:

Scott Rabalais: Bright lights, big win for LSU, but too many issues to be comfortable

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 7, 2024

The in-house slogan at LSU for this, the 100th anniversary season of Tiger Stadium, is “It never gets old.”

Scott Rabalais: LSU's game with Nicholls State completes its circle against in-state foes

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Sep 7, 2024

When LSU takes the field Saturday night to begin the 100th anniversary season of Tiger Stadium, it will mark the closure of a circle that took well over a century to complete.

Scott Rabalais: When will Brian Kelly get LSU back to being a national title contender?

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 4, 2024

Brian Kelly’s fist slamming into that news conference table in Las Vegas is just the tip of the frustration iceberg as far as LSU football is concerned.

Scott Rabalais: The time has come for a change in LSU's football scheduling philosophy

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 4, 2024

It is said a person learns more from failure than success.

Scott Rabalais: Brian Kelly goes from angry to softer tone over mistakes in LSU's loss to USC

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Sep 3, 2024

The music group The Killers was in residency at Caesars Palace for two weeks in August, packing up their instruments last Friday.

Scott Rabalais: The results remain the same for LSU, caught in a maddening loop of losses

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Sep 1, 2024

LAS VEGAS — The season-opening addresses change for the LSU football team, but the results remain painfully familiar.

Three and out: Sports columnist Scott Rabalais breaks down LSU's loss to USC in the desert

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Sep 1, 2024

1. THE NUSSMEIER FACTOR

Scott Rabalais: Tiger fans take over Las Vegas in advance of Sunday's opener with USC

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Aug 31, 2024

LAS VEGAS — When I told my brother Jeff that the newspaper wanted me to do what we call a scene-setter piece here in advance of Sunday’s LSU-Southern California game, he offered me some sage advice:

Scott Rabalais: Twenty years after split title, LSU and USC need win for CFP chase

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Aug 31, 2024

It was a bright, chilly day in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2004. Champions day.

Scott Rabalais: LSU's decision not to change pregame routine is an exercise in soft power

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Aug 30, 2024

LSU announced Wednesday that it will not change its pregame routine to have its teams be on the field/court/playing surface, contrary to a request/edict/demand from Gov. Jeff Landry earlier this year.

Scott Rabalais: Similarities abound between LSU and USC heading into season opener

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Aug 28, 2024

When the LSU Tigers and USC Trojans take the field Sunday in the Vegas Kickoff Classic (6:30 p.m., ABC), they will have a lot more in common than instantly recognizable three-letter names and …

Doug Moreau stepping away from LSU radio booth for 2024 season, his replacement named

BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist
Updated Aug 28, 2024

A legendary voice is stepping away from the LSU radio booth for the 2024 season.