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The LSU Tigers fell one spot, to number three, in this week's USA TODAY Top 25 Coaches' Poll.

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Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun softball team is #19 in this week's NCAA college softball RPI top 25 rankings.

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The LSU Tigers remain at number two in this week's USA Today Baseball Top 25 Coaches Poll, which was released on Monday.

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My grandmother, Rhoda Singer, died earlier this year. She lived much of her life in Brooklyn and was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Her favorite player was Pee Wee Reese, the Dodgers' scrappy white shortstop who famously silenced a racist Cincinnati crowd by putting his arm around his black teammate Jackie Robinson during pre-game warmups.

I thought about my grandmother a lot while watching '42,' the new biopic of Jackie Robinson and his quest to break the color barrier in baseball. On an intellectual level, I can tell you a dozen things wrong with the movie, from its excessively preachy dialogue to its bloated length. But on an emotional level, I have to admit that this movie bypassed my brain and grabbed my heart, pulling each and every string contained therein firmly and repeatedly. It's a pretty good tribute to a great man. And when Pee-Wee and Jackie embraced on that field in Cincinnati I cried.

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Michigan point guard Trey Burke added another individual award to his resume this weekend when he was named the John R. Wooden Award winner, edging out Indiana's Victor Oladipo and Creighton's Doug McDermott. On Thursday, Burke was chosen The Associated Press' c

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The LSU Tigers are the new number one team in the Collegiate Baseball Top 30 newspaper poll, which was released on Monday.

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Rush maintains he was only joking when talking with his officials.

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The top two teams remain unchanged in this week's USA Today Baseball Top 25 Coaches poll, with the North Carolina Tar Heels holding on to the top spot, with the LSU Tigers right behind at number two.

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The latest college softball rpi rankings were released on Monday, and the Oklahoma Sooners remain the top team again this week, with Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns moving up to #23.

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The Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball team has consistently been NCAA tournament contention under head coach Tubby Smith's tenure. Apparently that's not enough for the Golden Gophers, who fired Smith today, one day after his squad was beaten in the third round of the NCAA tournament by the University of Florida. Smith is...

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