Author Archives: Hunt Palmer
Series Snapshot: Jax College Classic
By Hunt Palmer This weekend offers three competitive baseball games for LSU. Jay Johnson likes that. But he likes the other stuff, too. His team gets to pack up and hit the road. They'll have to do th...
Feb 20, 2026
Otter Locks February 19: Three pack of hoops picks
Jimmy Ott, longtime sports betting analyst and co-host of Live at Lunch on 104.5 ESPN Baton Rouge, will give his best bets of the day here. We call them, "Otter Locks," presented by Supreme Rice. Coll...
Feb 19, 2026
PALMER: Peterson's story a cautionary tale for championship programs nationwide
By Hunt Palmer On the same night Darius Acuff dropped 49 points in Tuscaloosa and never came off the floor in a double overtime game, Darryn Peterson basically matched him almost shot for shot before ...
Feb 19, 2026 Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images
Transformed Ricken deals in debut
By Hunt Palmer Reagan Ricken spent the fall of 2024 on the football field. Twelve months later, the former star quarterback for Great Oak High School in Temecula, Calif., went from pig skin to pigging...
Feb 19, 2026 Reagan Ricken via X/LSU Athletics
Tigers take care of Nicholls behind dominant bullpen
By Hunt Palmer THE STORY Zac Cowan's start sputtered, but the four hurlers who followed were locked in. The Tiger bullpen combined for 6.2 hitless, scoreless frames to help LSU to a 12-1 win to move t...
Feb 18, 2026 Jonathan Mailhes
Otter Locks February 18: College hoops five pack
Jimmy Ott, longtime sports betting analyst and co-host of Live at Lunch on 104.5 ESPN Baton Rouge, will give his best bets of the day here. We call them, "Otter Locks," presented by Supreme Rice. Coll...
Feb 18, 2026
Ryan Miret was locked in with Lane Kiffin amid November drama
By Hunt Palmer While tension built in Oxford, Gainesville and Baton Rouge in November, Ryan Miret waited in Miami. The three-star center prospect had been committed to Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss since J...
Feb 18, 2026 Ryan Miret via Instagram
Verge Ausberry talks revenue, men's basketball on AFR
(The quotes in this story come from LSU Athletic director Verge Ausberry's conversation with Matt Moscona on After Further Review on Tuesday. Watch the interview here.) By Hunt Palmer Cash is king in ...
Feb 18, 2026 December 27, 2025: NCAA football, Kinder’s Texas Bowl game action between the Houston Cougars and the LSU Tigers at NRG Stadium in Houston, TX. Michael Bacigalupi
Longhorns hold off Tiger surge to win in Austin
By Hunt Palmer THE STORY Max Mackinnon and LSU put on an offensive clinic in the second half on Tuesday. That clinic cut a 16-point Texas lead down to three late, but when LSU needed baskets the most,...
Feb 17, 2026 Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images
Otter Locks February 17: College basketball picks
Jimmy Ott, longtime sports betting analyst and co-host of Live at Lunch on 104.5 ESPN Baton Rouge, will give his best bets of the day here. We call them, "Otter Locks," presented by Supreme Rice. Coll...
Feb 17, 2026
