Saturday was a night of firsts — and seconds, and sevenths — for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame as it introduced 11 inductees at the Natchitoches Events Center.
We have recap videos and loads of photos from 80’s Bowling Bash presented by BOM, Rockin’ River Fest presented by Rapides Regional Medical Center & VIP Taste of Tailgating presented by MidSouth Bank:
Maybe it was what Archie Manning didn’t do that led his middle son to a dais in the middle of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame on Friday evening.
Gratitude. Humility. Appreciation.
The story goes that 3-year old Peyton Manning was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he answered without hesitation, “A quarterback,” quickly adding, “like my daddy.”
A noted Michigan Man from Ohio who first made his name in Oklahoma and now toils in Kansas is about to be inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
The temperature was somewhere around frying-pan hot on this August afternoon, the second of Louisiana Tech’s two-a-day football practices, the season still a couple of torturous weeks away, a promised break if you could make it through all the monotony and the steam and the chaos.
Charles Young watched his daughter, Danielle Scott, grow up to become an indoor volleyball legend who played in an unprecedented five Olympic Games.
There is toughness, and then there is rodeo cowboy toughness.
