NEW ORLEANS (AP) - This city, struggling to reduce its murder rate, plans to develop a midnight basketball program with the help of the New Orleans Hornets professional basketball team. Officials hope to keep children off the streets and get them involved in the basketball program. Mayor Mitch Landrieu and... more »
The girls high school basketball top 28 tips off today in Hammond. Four Acadiana teams are still alive on the road to a State Championship. Here's the match-ups in the State semi-finals:
5A: To get things started Jennings is matched against St. Michael at 6:00 today. STM takes on... more »
A Lafayette teenager collapsed and died while at basketball practice Monday night. 15 year old Shane Ozene was a sophomore at Acadiana High School, but was at practice for a recreational basketball league at Northside High School when he fell to the floor.
"We were getting set to run... more »
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A toddler has died after falling 50 feet from a luxury suite at the Los Angeles Lakers game against the Golden State Warriors in the Staples Center arena. Police Sgt. Frank Alvelais says early Monday that the boy, believed to be 2 or 3 years old,... more »
The Cajundome has been home to The top 28 for 13 years, but after next year the city will have to say farewell to one of it's biggest events.
Greg Davis, the Cajundome Director, said "we just were not able to offer our facility for free."
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The NCAA is on the verge of expanding the men's basketball tournament from 65 to 68 teams beginning next year and has a new, $10.8 billion TV deal that will allow it to show every game live. The NCAA said Thursday that the Division I Men's Basketball... more »
Basketball means everything to one rural town in Acadia Parish, whose team is going to the state championships.
The Midland High Rebels won their semi-finals game Tuesday night, so Friday night they will be competing for the state title.
The whole town of Midland will be rooting for... more »
The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball team was eliminated in the first round of the Sun Belt tournament over the weekend. Today, Head Coach Robert Lee is out.
A press conference has been called for 10:00 AM Tuesday morning. It will be announced that Robert Lee will not be... more »
Shortly before 5:00 pm Wednesday afternoon detectives from the Bureau of Investigations arrested 29 year old Dwayne Bernard of New Iberia. Bernard is a coach at Jeanerette Senior High School and was arrested for 17 counts of Carnal Knowledge of a Juvenile and 3 counts of Prohibited Sexual Conduct between... more »
Tickets to see the New Orleans Hornets went on sale at 10 o'clock this morning, however, just an hour into the giveaway tickets were no longer available.
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The Hornets Open Practice will take place Saturday, Oct. 3 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Earl K. Long... more »