Scooter Hobbs

LSU opens its baseball season today — and not a moment too soon, I’d say, if you’ve seen the Tigers’ feeble attempts at watchable basketball. They evidently missed the memo that Southeastern Conference hoops is the terror of the NCAA this season. It won’t be much easier in baseball, which the SEC has long dominated, […]

Well, what do you know? The Saints are hiring a new head coach after all. That was probably the plan all along. So a big Who Dat to you, Kellen Moore — and, for this job, Who Dat is meant in a friendly way, needing no question mark. Email newsletter signup Sign up for our […]

It’s a dilemma, all right, this Super Bowl, LIX I guess it is. The main thing you’ll notice is that it would have been a lot more fun if the Buffalo Bills were playing the Washington Commanders. Something different. A game in which it would be hard to pull against either team. Email newsletter signup […]

You turn you back for one minute and, all of a sudden, the word on the streets is that the SEC is not the bell-cow dominant force in college football anymore. The league can counter with the old top-to-bottom argument — you don’t want to mess with the season-long schedules they can lay out for […]

If it so please the court, I’d like to stick a toe outside the sports realm for today’s essay. All everybody wants to talk about this week is the weather and, since I can’t do anything about it, I intend to write about it. What descended upon our fair city this week was officially called […]

OK, Brian Kelly, it’s your move now. Notre Dame still hasn’t won a national championship since 1988. Presumably the LSU coach was true to his word and was pulling for his former team— as stubborn as the Irish were — as Notre Dame suffered a 34-23 loss to Ohio State in the College Football Playoff […]

The popular narrative out of Notre Dame right now is that the Fighting Irish would not be playing for the national championship Monday night if Brian Kelly was still their coach. They may be right. It’s not that Marcus Freeman is a better coach than Kelly. He may be — the Irish sure seem to […]

Apologies in advance for not knowing the winner of the Texas-Ohio State playoff semifinal before deadline. But, either way, the Longhorns were the last Southeastern Conference team standing, the burnt orange carrying the flag, holding the rope so to speak, for the SEC against this attempted Midwest takeover of college football. You didn’t hear a […]

Notre Dame fans are having themselves a blimey good old time in advance of Thursday’s CFP semifinal against Penn State, and well they should. Quite an accomplishment. Top o’ the mornin’ to ya and, by all means, win one for the Gipper! But this Irish celebration doesn’t have to be — and shouldn’t be — at […]

OK, maybe I’m crazy. That was a rhetorical statement. No need to all shout out at once. And don’t worry, this will never happen anyway. Email newsletter signup Sign up for our daily email newsletter But would it be the worst thing in the world if the Saints’ world-wide search for a new head coach […]