Saban was initially elected to the LSHOF’s Class of 2020, but that spring’s global pandemic postponed ceremonies.
Years melted away in an instant as Dale Weiner told the story that shaped his life.
Sometimes it’s a good idea to listen to the advice of your older brothers.
Before there was Haleigh Bryant, Sarah Finnegan or Ashleigh Gnat, there was a 14-time All-American at LSU. An NCAA beam champion, and an SEC Gymnast of the Year, who was setting the foundation and helping vault LSU gymnastics into a perennial power.
Born March 6, 1936 to Emery and Izola Soileau, George Willard Soileau started to put together a legendary boxing career before he reached high school.
She picked up a basketball as a challenge when she was 9 and used it to prove a point, first in the back yard against her brother and two cousins in Coushatta, then on her way to becoming a two-time Kodak All-American at Louisiana Tech, then through 13 seasons in the WNBA and a concurrent 15 overseas, and now through another 15 seasons as a WNBA coach.
By definition of the Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Award we have found the perfect recipient.
Few on the journalism side took a longer and more winding road there, although most of it has at least been based in Baton Rouge, covering LSU’s always-wild sports scene.
Daniels applied all of hise abilities in building a distinguished broadcasting career that earned him posthumous inclusion in this year’s Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame induction class, as a recipient of the LSWA’s Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism.
The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2025 has expanded to 12 with the announcement Wednesday that retired football coach Nick Saban, who led LSU to a 2003 national championship, will be enshrined this summer.
