Scott Rabalais
Sports Columnist at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Sports columnist, The Advocate. Amazing family. Fun job. “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
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6 days ago |
nola.com | Scott Rabalais
FORT WORTH, Texas — As the LSU gymnastics team bus pulled away Friday morning from the team hotel, it was the physical manifestation of a program heading in an uncertain and different direction for 2026. Phrases such as “end of an era” get thrown around a lot in sports, often too casually. Not this time. Of the 21 gymnasts on the LSU roster this season, 10 were fourth-, fifth- or even sixth-year seniors.
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1 week ago |
nola.com | Scott Rabalais
FORT WORTH, Texas — Haleigh Bryant and Lexi Zeiss embraced teammates and brushed away tears. Ashley Cowan stared down the vault runway at … nothing. Kailin Chio was about the most despondent NCAA champion you have ever seen. A great LSU gymnastics season ended abruptly Thursday night in the NCAA semifinals, one step short of the championship meet and two nights short of glory as back-to-back NCAA team champions.
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1 week ago |
nola.com | Scott Rabalais
FORT WORTH, Texas — They won the Southeastern Conference regular season title, the SEC championship meet and their NCAA regional. But in what turned out to be the LSU gymnastics team’s biggest meet of the season, the one that would allow the Tigers to pursue a second straight NCAA championship, they came up short. LSU, the No. 1 overall seed in the entire NCAA competition, was unable to do enough to make it to Saturday’s final.
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1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Scott Rabalais
A pair of rising young stars have committed to play in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, as Akshay Bhatia and Carson Young will team up in next week’s PGA Tour event, tournament organizers have announced. “This is another promising young pair," said Steve Worthy, CEO of the Fore!Kids Foundation which runs the Zurich Classic. “Akshay has two wins on the PGA Tour and has Walker Cup team experience, and Carson has shown some strong play over the last year.
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1 week ago |
nola.com | Scott Rabalais
FORT WORTH, Texas — Oklahoma and Missouri advanced out of Thursday’s first NCAA gymnastics semifinal to Saturday’s championship meet, with Mizzou stunning Florida to reach its first final in program history. Oklahoma, the No. 2 national seed, finished first in the semifinal with a 197.550, while No. 7 Mizzou edged out No. 3 Florida 197.300-197.200. No. 11 Alabama was a distant fourth at 196.825.
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