Thursday afternoon’s introductory press conference for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2024, presented by La Capitol Federal Credit Union, felt like a love letter to the state and its people.
Nobody could have seen what the future held when the first-time NFL head coach took the quarterback with still-fresh surgical scars on his throwing shoulder on a free-agent tour through a leveled city.
One car ride home from Greenville Elementary changed Seimone Augustus.
Had Frank Monica been just a little bit taller, the history of sports in Louisiana — especially in the River Parishes — might have been changed completely.
One word best describes Kerry Joseph: competitor.
An incredible journey in wrestling took him to Louisiana, then all across the world, and now back to his adopted home state where he’ll be inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
His earliest childhood memories were of him and his brothers taking turns racing their daddy’s match race horses down the narrow dirt road to their family home in Sunset, and watching the thoroughbreds gallop around the original Evangeline Downs race track in Carencro.
