If anyone had a reason to look back and wonder why things were as they appeared, weightlifting champion Walter Imahara might have had a reason.
Once offered a live goat in appreciation of her basketball prowess, Alana Beard was a generational athlete who won nearly every award imaginable for a women’s basketball player.
That resume’ makes the long journey from Leonville to LSU to track stadiums all over the globe to his induction into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches all the more special for the 44-year-old Davis, and those who marveled at his highly-successful career.
Mainieri inherited a troubled program and few high quality players before the 2007 season, but he returned LSU to Omaha in just his second season in 2008. He won the national championship in 2009.
Many things about M.L. Woodruff’s life paint the picture of an old-school baseball coach. Still, nothing fueled a desire to coach within him. A major life change did.
That was borne out in his days at LSU and over 14 years pitching in Major League Baseball, a career that has landed him in the Class of 2023 of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
Now 71 and third base coach of the Atlanta Braves, Wash smiled and shook his head at the memory of the skinny kid from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans who left home to play baseball 53 years ago.
For more than two decades, Lyons was the T-P’s high school writer based in the River Parishes Bureau covering St. Charles, St. John and St. James parishes, celebrating the accomplishments of the athletes and their teams in that area between New Orleans and Baton Rouge where high school sports have always mattered.
For Bruce Brown, the world’s view of the biggest thing out there was never a guiding light for him.
Longtime Northwestern State director of athletics Greg Burke has been named Director of Business Development and Public Relations for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Foundation.
