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The stadium at Amite High School in Louisiana, with a sign reading "Home of the Amite Warriors" listing state championship years, light towers and the grandstand behind it. Photo: Akil Head, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (resized).

The 2026 LHSAA Football Playoff Brackets Are Out: No. 1 Seeds and First-Round Games

The LHSAA's 2026 football brackets are set. Every division's No. 1 seed, first-round games Nov. 12-14 and the road to the Caesars Superdome, Dec. 10-12.

Bayou Weekly

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The exterior of Tiger Stadium on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge on a football gameday, with the stadium walls and surrounding plaza in daylight. Photo: WClarke, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized).

Alabama Comes to Tiger Stadium at 2:30 Saturday on ABC, the First Daytime Kickoff in the Series There Since 2010

No. 15 LSU hosts No. 9 Alabama at 2:30 p.m. CT Saturday in Tiger Stadium on ABC, the first daytime kickoff there since 2010. Kickoff, TV, records and bag rules.

Bayou Weekly

3 days ago3 min read

Open coastal marsh at Sabine National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Louisiana, with grass, a shallow pond in the foreground and white egrets in the distance. Photo: Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).

Saturday Is Youth and Veterans Waterfowl Day in Louisiana's West Zone. Here's Who Can Hunt and What to Bring

Louisiana's West Zone youth and veterans duck day is Saturday, Nov. 7. Who qualifies, adult supervision rules, bag limits, duck stamps and HIP, per LDWF.

Bayou Weekly

4 days ago3 min read

The gray concrete grandstand of Doc Elliott Stadium in Farmerville, with a painted Farmerville Farmers sign listing district and 2001 state titles. Photo: Billy Hathorn, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (resized).

Louisiana's High School Football Regular Season Ends Saturday. Here's How the LHSAA Sets the Playoff Brackets

The LHSAA regular season ends Nov. 7 and pairings come out Nov. 8. How power ratings, district titles and Select or Non-Select divisions set the 2026 brackets.

Bayou Weekly

5 days ago3 min read

A white-tailed deer buck standing among woodland brush. Photo: Courtney Celley, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Louisiana Hunters Can Track Wounded Deer With Dogs Under Rep. Jason DeWitt's Act 272

Since Aug. 1, 2024, Louisiana hunters can track a mortally wounded deer with a dog and lights. See what Act 272 by Rep. Jason DeWitt allows and requires.

Bayou Weekly

Oct 293 min read

A great egret taking flight over a swamp in the Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana. Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Atchafalaya Basin Limits: 5 Bass and 25 Crappie a Day, Under a Bill by Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter

New Atchafalaya Basin limits took effect Aug. 1: 5 bass at 12 inches, 25 crappie at 8 inches a day. See the area covered and the law by Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter.

Bayou Weekly

Oct 283 min read

The Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, where the Pelicans open the 2026-27 season against Indiana. Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pelicans Open the Season Tonight Against Indiana, With a New Coach and a Former LSU Forward on the Roster

The Pelicans open 2026-27 tonight at 7 at the Smoothie King Center against Indiana in Jamahl Mosley's first game as coach. TV on GCSEN and FOX 8.

Bayou Weekly

Oct 213 min read

The Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, site of the Saints' Oct. 25 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Photo: Guilhem Vellut, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

The Saints Play the NFL's First Regular-Season Game in Paris on Sunday. Here's When to Set the Alarm.

French colonists founded New Orleans in 1718. This Sunday, the Saints find out how that plays in France itself. The Saints will host the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, Oct. 25, at the Stade de France, the national stadium in Saint-Denis on the northern edge of Paris. According to the team's ticket page, it's the NFL's first regular-season game in Paris. New Orleans is the designated home team, so this goes down as one of its home dates, even though it's being played about 4,8

Bayou Weekly

Oct 193 min read

The sun low on the horizon over the Gulf at Grand Isle, Louisiana.

The Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo Is Two Summers From 100, and It Started With Two Fish Under an Old Fort

For three days at the end of every July, Grand Isle fills up. The barrier island at the bottom of Jefferson Parish swaps its quiet for boat trailers, a rodeo tent and weigh-in crowds, all for a fishing tournament its organizers call the oldest in the United States. The International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo was founded in 1928, which puts its 100th anniversary two summers away. This year's rodeo, held July 23 to 25, showed how much the island is at the mercy of the Gulf. Tropi

Bayou Weekly

Oct 153 min read

Grambling and Southern players on the field during the 2015 Bayou Classic at the Superdome in New Orleans.

The Bayou Classic Turns 53 This Thanksgiving, and It Began as Eddie Robinson's Long-Shot Idea

Every Thanksgiving weekend, a good share of Louisiana points the car toward New Orleans for a rivalry game that comes with a parade and a battle of the bands attached. The 53rd Bayou Classic between Southern University and Grambling State kicks off at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28, at the Caesars Superdome. The weekend around it now starts with a Thanksgiving Day parade downtown on Thursday and builds to the Battle of the Bands and Greek Show on Friday night. The rivalry is muc

Bayou Weekly

Oct 133 min read

FOX: LSU women's basketball team skipping national anthem underscores 'bigger problem' for college sports: governor

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry started a firestorm on social media Tuesday when he called for a policy change after the LSU women’s...

Bayou Weekly

Apr 4, 20242 min read

Opinion: LSU Women’s Basketball Team Can Go All the Way Again if They Drown Out the Noise - Or Let it Fuel Them

--Bayou Weekly Staff-- Ever since the LSU Women’s Basketball team made a historic run to win the 2023 NCAA National Championship, the...

Bayou Weekly

Mar 25, 20242 min read

LSU Women's Basketball is Sweet Once Again

Kim Mulkey's LSU women's basketball team clinched a birth to the Sweet 16 Albany 2 regional after their round of 32 win over Middle Tennessee State University.

Bayou Weekly

Mar 25, 20241 min read