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Kingfish U

Author : Robert Mann
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807180025
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Kingfish U written by Robert Mann and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P. Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small, undistinguished state school into an academic and football powerhouse. From 1931, when Long declared himself the “official thief” for LSU, to his death in 1935, the school’s budget mushroomed, its physical plant burgeoned, its faculty flourished, and its enrollment tripled. Along with improving LSU’s academic reputation, Long believed the school’s football program and band were crucial to its success. Taking an intense interest in the team, Long delivered pregame and halftime pep talks, devised plays, stalked the sidelines during games, and fired two coaches. He poured money into a larger, flashier band, supervised the hiring of two directors, and, with the second one, wrote a new fight song, “Touchdown for LSU.” While he rarely meddled in academic affairs, Long insisted that no faculty member criticize him publicly. When students or faculty from “his school” opposed him, retribution was swift. Long’s support for LSU did not come without consequences. His unrelenting involvement almost cost the university its accreditation. And after his death, several of his allies—including his handpicked university president—went to prison in a scandal that almost destroyed LSU. Rollicking and revealing, Robert Mann’s Kingfish U is the definitive story of Long’s embrace of LSU.

The Fighting Tigers, 1993-2008

Author : Scott Rabalais
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807133705
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Fighting Tigers, 1993-2008 written by Scott Rabalais and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent, maddening, thrilling, heartbreaking— over the years, LSU football has been called many things; boring is not among them. But no period in the team’s history exemplifies the extreme highs and lows of sport better than the past fifteen years. In 1993, the Tigers were in the midst of a record six-season losing streak and the program was struggling to dig its way out of its darkest days. By 2008, LSU had emerged as one of the premier college football powers in the nation and the unprecedented two-time winner of the BCS national championship. In The Fighting Tigers, 1993–2008, award-winning sportswriter Scott Rabalais chronicles the Tigers’ fantastic rise to the top of the college football universe, vividly detailing the victories and defeats, the coaches and the players, the tears and the titles of this sometimes frustrating, always fascinating period of LSU football. Game by game, Rabalais recounts the tenures of the four head coaches who led the Tigers during these years—“Curley” Hallman, the strict taskmaster whose mounting losses created dissension and apathy among the Tiger faithful; Gerry DiNardo, the charismatic salesman whose efforts to “Bring Back the Magic” temporarily vaulted the Tigers again into the national polls; Nick Saban, the intense workhorse who steadily rebuilt the program and led the team to its first national championship in almost fifty years; and Les Miles, the engaging wildcard who finally emerged from Saban’s shadow with a championship of his own. Rabalais provides expert analysis of the 2004 and 2008 BCS national championship games and other postseason bowl games as well as the “ordinary” games that have crossed over into legendary status—1993’s “Pigs Will Fly” victory against Alabama, “The Night the Barn Burned” at Auburn in 1996, and 2002’s “Bluegrass Miracle.” Along the way, Rabalais recounts the incredible athletic feats of numerous standout players, including Eddie Kennison, Kevin Faulk, Josh Reed, Michael Clayton, Marcus Spears, Chad Lavalais, and Glenn Dorsey. Throughout, Rabalais interweaves off-the-field events that have affected or enhanced the LSU football legacy: the return of the traditional home white jerseys; the creation of the Bengal Belles; two expansions of Tiger Stadium; the death of Mike V and the introduction of Mike VI; and perhaps most poignant, the Tigers’ volunteer efforts and emotional responses in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. An appendix contains the vital statistics of LSU’s entire football history. Individual and team records in every area, coaching records, All-Americans and Academic All-Americans, year-by-year results, top ten Tiger Stadium crowds, Tigers in pro football— all of this and more will satisfy even the most hardcore LSU sports statistician. Peter Finney, venerable author of the three previous volumes of The Fighting Tigers, passes the official historian’s torch to Rabalais in a compelling foreword that emphasizes the significance of the Tigers’ recent run of success. To many die-hard Tiger fans, LSU football is a religion all its own. With The Fighting Tigers, 1993–2008, Rabalais has written the next book of its bible.

Author : Chet Hilburn
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449752691
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book written by Chet Hilburn and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a mystique about LSU's Tiger Stadium that's hard to grasp. Discover what it is through interviews with fans and writings of well-known sports figures. Find out what the 25 greatest games played in Death Valley are, including colorful and vivid descriptions told by players, coaches and fans who were present. Revisit LSU football from 1958 to 2012, detailing coaches hired and fired, including the dismal 1990s decade to the 2000-2011 period, when LSU won two national championships. Read about the 2011 SEC champions and what made the team extraordinary, despite losing to Alabama in the BCS National Championship game. Tiger Stadium is both intimidating and intriguing and it's all explained in this colorful account that's loaded with photos bringing the venue alive in a special way.

Return to Glory

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Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781582617862
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Return to Glory written by and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

100 Things LSU Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

Author : Ross Dellenger
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1641253584
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book 100 Things LSU Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die written by Ross Dellenger and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With traditions, records, and Tigers lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Louisiana State University fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, behind-the-scenes tales, memorable moments, and outstanding achievements by players like Y.A. Tittle, Tommy Casanova, Alan Faneca, Odell Beckham Jr., and Leonard Fournette. Covering the championship eras of Paul Dietzel, Nick Saban, Les Miles, and plenty more, this is the ultimate resource guide for all LSU faithful.

The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2008

Author : Yale Daily News
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312366896
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2008 written by Yale Daily News and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student journalists at the "Yale Daily News" interview fellow students at over 320 colleges in the U.S. and Canada to produce detailed profiles on each campus in this premier peer-to-peer guide to colleges and universities.

Southern Fried Football (Revised)

Author : Tony Barnhart
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1623684889
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Southern Fried Football (Revised) written by Tony Barnhart and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the cultural phenomenon that is college football in the South. This completely new edition provides a close-up look at the great players, great rivalries, great coaches, and great traditions that make college football in the South more than just a game. It is a way of life that lasts 365 days a year.

Gumbo for the Tiger Soul

Author : Ces Guerra
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496924606
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Gumbo for the Tiger Soul written by Ces Guerra and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gumbo for the Tiger Soul is a collection of personal stories covering great and not so great moments in LSU football history over nearly 50 years. The stories have been contributed by friends, former football players, fans, band members, dancers, color guard and LSU staff. They offer a unique perspective that includes the emotions and feelings Tiger fans have experienced. Reading this book will trigger memories of games that you witnessed in person or TV. With gumbo as the undercurrent theme of the book, the chapters have clever titles - mostly ingredients of gumbo. Also, each chapter is followed by a great Cajun recipe.

Game of My Life LSU Tigers

Author : Marty Mulé
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1683580427
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Game of My Life LSU Tigers written by Marty Mulé and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A continuing and ongoing drama, LSU football has been marked by a string of improbable victories and sometimes valiant defeats. Game of My Life LSU Tigers is the chronicle of more than thirty-five of the greatest players as they tell the story of the game that meant it all. This book features the vivid and poignant single-game stories from three dozen of the most remembered Tigers games of the last eight decades. Readers will relive the fingertip catches, the bone-crunching hits, and epic touchdowns through the eyes—and from the memories—of the LSU players themselves. The words of Tigers such as Jim Taylor, Billy Cannon, Tommy Hodson, Carlos Carson, Matt Mauck, Rohan Davey, JaMarcus Russell, Marcus Spears, Jarvis Landry, and Leonard Fournette are all part of this storied collection that has become a must-have for any true Tigers fan and Bayou football lover. From the words of Tigers coaching legend Paul Dietzel, “This is really like a Tiger time machine, going back to LSU’s greatest football moments with the people who lived them, then and now.”

The Gold Swan

Author : James S Thayer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501131923
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Gold Swan written by James S Thayer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thayer paints a rich picture of Hong Kong politics as well as of the world of international architecture" (Publishers Weekly) in this gripping thriller about the world's most famous architect, who makes a fatal mistake in building the world's tallest skyscraper for the Chinese government. To mark five thousand years of civilization, China has commissioned master architect John Llewellyn to construct a building like no other—a three-thousand-foot-tall crescent of bronze, steel, and concrete, towering above the Hong Kong skyline. Its official name is the Fifth Millennium, but the city's citizens have dubbed it the Gold Swan. It will be the eighth wonder of the world, a testament to China's glory. And it may hold a fatal flaw that could bring it crashing to the ground before it is completed. Llewellyn's chief security man, ex-FBI agent Clay Williams, and young architect Anne Iverson suspect the impending disaster, and they are thrust into the deadly world of Chinese politics—where the truth is a lie, and lies are the only answers they can find. What they cannot know is that there are those in power who want the tower to fall, and with it, the very heart of one of the most powerful nations on earth....

LSU Alphabet Book

Author : Linda Colquitt Taylor
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620240858
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book LSU Alphabet Book written by Linda Colquitt Taylor and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geaux Tigers! TheLSU Alphabet Bookintroduces LSU to a whole new generation. Future Tigers will love learning the alphabet as they find out all about LSU. Alumni will love reminiscing about LSU from seeing azaleas to hearing zydeco music!

Five

Author : Sonny Marks
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608446131
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Five written by Sonny Marks and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February 11, 1978. All five LSU starters fouled out against the greatest college basketball team in the nation, the No. 1 ranked Kentucky Wildcats. Left on the floor for the Tigers in overtime were a walk-on, a black Jewish freshman from New York, a senior with a bum knee, and two white boys: one, a dentist's son from New Orleans, and the other one a 7-foot surfer dude from Florida. On the bench coaching them was Dale Brown, a wild man from North Dakota. In a rivalry and a game that involved roughness on and off the court, self-gratification, race relations and international folk dance, the largest crowd in LSU basketball history watched one of the greatest upsets, and a turning point for two basketball programs. About the Author A former full-time newspaper journalist, Sonny Marks practices law in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he lives with his wife Louise.

Klan of Devils

Author : Stanley Nelson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176478
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Klan of Devils written by Stanley Nelson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a pickup truck shot two Black deputies on patrol in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Deputy Oneal Moore, the driver of the patrol car and father of four daughters, died instantly. His partner, Creed Rogers, survived and radioed in a description of the vehicle. Less than an hour later, police in Mississippi spotted the truck and arrested its driver, a decorated World War II veteran named Ernest Ray McElveen. They returned McElveen to Washington Parish, where he spent eleven days in jail before authorities released him. Afterward, the FBI sent its top inspector to Bogalusa, Louisiana, to participate in the murder inquiry—the only civil rights–era FBI investigation into the killing of a Black law enforcement officer by the KKK. Despite that assistance, lack of evidence and witnesses unwilling to come forward forced Louisiana prosecutors eventually to drop all charges against McElveen. The FBI continued its investigation but could not gather enough evidence to file charges, leaving the murder of Oneal Moore unsolved. Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff is Stanley Nelson’s investigation of this case, which the FBI probed from 1965 to 2016. Nelson describes the Klan’s growth, and the emergence of Black activism in Bogalusa and Washington Parish, against the backdrop of political and social change in the 1950s and early 1960s. With the assistance of two retired FBI agents who worked the case, Nelson also explores the lives of the primary suspects, all of whom are now dead, and points to the Klansmen most likely responsible for the senseless and horrific attack.

The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010

Author : Yale Daily News Staff
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429935316
Total Pages : 1025 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010 written by Yale Daily News Staff and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Straight-Talking Student's Guide to the Best Colleges For more than thirty-five years, The Insider's Guide to the Colleges has been the favorite resource of high school students across the country because it is the only comprehensive college reference written and researched by students for students. In interviews with hundreds of peers on campuses from New York to Hawaii and Florida to Alaska, our writers have gotten the inside scoop on every school on topics ranging from professors and campus life to dorms and student activities. This thirty-sixth edition has been completely revised and updated to stay on top of campus trends and attitudes. Each school profile in The Insider's Guide cuts through the veneer of brochures and common stereotypes to reveal colleges as they're seen through the eyes of their students. This comprehensive guide includes: - Revealing profiles of more than 330 top schools in the United States and Canada - Essential statistics for every school, from acceptance rates to the most popular majors - An insider's packing list detailing what every college student really needs to bring - A college quiz that helps students find the type of school that is right for them - FYI sections with candid student opinions and outrageous advice

Plain Jane

Author : Fern Michaels
Publisher : Kensington
ISBN 13 : 1496734467
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Plain Jane written by Fern Michaels and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fan-favorite classic Fern Michaels novel, beautifully repackaged for fans old and new. Back in college, Jane Lewis would have given anything to be like homecoming queen Connie Bryan. Instead, she was just Plain Jane--a painfully shy wallflower no one would remember. That was then. Today, a lovely and confident Dr. Jane Lewis has a thriving psychotherapy practice, her own radio talk show, a beautiful old Louisiana mansion, and her affectionate, nutty dog, Olive, to keep her company. The only thing missing is someone to share her life. Jane has never forgotten Michael Sorenson, the boy she'd admired from afar in college. Now, he's inspiring her to hope for a future together. She's also never forgotten the brutal, unsolved attack that ended Connie Bryan's life--and haunts Jane still. Suddenly, the present collides with the past, as she finds clues into the identities of Connie's attackers--clues that send her into a world of risk and excitement, challenging her to become a truly extraordinary woman...if she dares.

Campus Traditions

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617036161
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Campus Traditions written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American campus life shapes students, and how students shape campus lore

The Hot Seat

Author : Ben Mathis-Lilley
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 154170035X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Hot Seat written by Ben Mathis-Lilley and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fan’s search for the truth about American history, human nature, and whether Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh will keep his job Being a University of Michigan football fan should be joyful. Michigan is an elite academic institution whose football team boasts forty-three Big Ten championships. But these days, college football is complicated. The NCAA is corrupt and exploitative, and Michigan keeps losing to Ohio State. It’s hard not to wonder, as Slate writer and superfan Ben Mathis-Lilley does in this book: Why are we doing this? The Hot Seat is a chronicle of one of the wildest years in Michigan football history, but also a search for the truth about fandom, from the pages of history books to the wilderness of online forums. Is it embarrassing to care about what happens in a game? Why is Jim Harbaugh like that? Is it somehow Thomas Jefferson’s fault? This book explores all these questions and many more. Against the backdrop of a quickly changing sport and country, The Hot Seat is an exploration of the all-consuming culture of fandom, and why it matters.