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....and it all starts tonight

The 2013 Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament, fan safety and scheduling for basketball and a change in the conference ejection policy highlighted the Sun Belt Conference fall meetings, which concluded Wednesday in New Orleans. The baseball tournament, to be held in May at M...

Evidently this is a good week for an open date.  Troy, FAU, South Alabama and Western Kentucky are all resting this week. Besides the Cajuns and Tulane, there are only three other games involving Sun Belt schools and one of them is on Thursday: ARKANSAS STATE (2-3, 0-1) AT FIU (1-4, 0-1)--The team that won the league last year is facing the team that was picked to win the league this year.  An...

So, I’ve been thinking….. I think my heart is hurting for Blaine Gautier.  Kid has worked hard.  Really hard.  Good student.  Waited his turn.  Performed at a high level.  Ready for a stellar finish.  Now this.  Deserved better.  Will persev...

Cajun fans couldn't ask for much more than they got.....

Louisiana racks up 501 yards in offense in runaway win

Panthers out for revenge. Cajuns can prevent that......

The Panthers were the preseason favorites....but they've still got questions

After Louisiana-Monroe drew a record of over 31,000 in their loss to Baylor Friday night, Saturday saw another school attendance fall as Western Kentucky drew over 23,000 fans to Houchens/L. T. Smith Stadium.  The fans went home happy as the Hilltoppers steamrolled Southern Miss 42-17. ...

One conference game and may other interesting ones.

It was only a matter of time before a Sun Belt school became the lead story in college football. Saturday was the day. The league had some really good moments in the past, but never had a Sun Belt school beaten a top-ten ranked team...

Well, the first weekend of college football is in the books and half the fan bases are happy and half are not. Well, except for schools like Louisiana-Monroe, who don't open their season until this Saturday. Here are my thoughts about the results around the Sun Belt Conference (Louisiana excluded...

College Football Talk, recently released their Sun Belt conference predictions for the upcoming 2012 season, and the website picks Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns to finish in fourth place this year.

The Sun Belt Conference recently announced they were adding the University of Texas-Arlington to their membership, effective July 1, 2013. Then, they made another announcement. "No further expansion is planned at this time." If Karl Benson had been in the room, I'd have hugged him...

New blood could mean a different way of doing things

Hank LaRue's three run homer highlighted the first inning, and #7 seed Middle Tennessee put the game away with six runs in the third inning and defeated #3 seed FIU 12-6 in Friday action at the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament in Bowling Green, KY...

It was turn back the clock day at the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament in Bowling Green, KY Thursday. Troy right hander Tyler Ray, who carried a 4-5 record with a 5.55 ERA into Thursday's game with FIU, looked an awful lot like the Tyler Ray who was the Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of the Year in 2011...

Bracket "B" for the Sun Belt Conference Tournament features teams seeded 2 ,3 ,6 and 7.  The round robin bracket games will begin Wednesday at Bowling Green Ballpark in Bowling Green, KY. For a preview of Bracket "A' featuring the 1, 4, 5 and 8 seeds, click here. ...

It shouldn't have come as a surprise, but after finishing tenth in the Sun Belt Conference this season, Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns were shut out of the All-Conference team released Tuesday by the league. In a mild surprise, Louisiana-Monroe's Jeremy Sy was named the league's Player of the Year, while Arkansas State's Jacob Lee was named the Pitcher of the Year...

It hasn't been a great year for the Sun Belt Conference.  In fact, this year the Sun Belt will be a one-bid league for the first time in more than twenty years.  But, someone is going to get the automatic bid and play i...