| The College World Series gets fired up Friday. But even in June, SEC football can dominate the news cycle like nothing else. The SEC released each school's 2024 conference schedule on Wednesday. Just the teams each school will play, mind you. Dates and times will be released, well, at a date and time to be announced later. We also know the dates and opponents for LSU's four non-conference games. This is a temporary eight-game schedule format to accommodate the arrival of Texas and Oklahoma into the league in 2024. The SEC may expand to nine games, or it may choose to stick with eight. Don't keep you in suspense, you say? Well, the whole purpose of this newsletter thing is to get you to click through to the stories for their interesting content. So, click away, folks. Back to baseball, as the LSU Tigers left for Omaha on Wednesday in advance of Saturday's 6 p.m. College World Series opener against Tennessee. We've got a photo gallery from the Tigers' spirited departure right here. We also have a feature on LSU reliever Gavin Guidry. I hesitate to call him the Tigers' closer, but he's the closest thing to one that LSU's still creaky bullpen has. He certainly has an interesting story to tell. It's been six years since the Tigers last played in the CWS. You can believe the bars and restaurants in Omaha have missed the Tigers and their legions of fans, though some go every year anyway. We check in with the local establishments with this article. Back to football, as LSU picked up another commitment Wednesday, this coming from Terrebonne High School's Kylan Billiot. He's one of the state's top prospects for the 2023-24 recruiting cycle. We wrap up today's newsletter with a couple of women's basketball items. Haleigh Van Lith, fresh off a gold medal with the U.S. team in the FIBA 3x3 World Cup in Vienna, dishes on the reasons she left Louisville for LSU. And the LSU Board of Supervisors will consider a plan to make improvements to the women's basketball locker room complex in the PMAC. It's not the new or vastly remodeled arena Kim Mulkey wants, but it's a start. That's all for today, kids. Well, one more item before we go: former LSU All-American Sam Burns tees off in the U.S. Open at 3:32 p.m. CDT Thursday out at Los Angeles Country Club. Burns is still seeking his first top-10 finish in a major. Thanks for reading and subscribing. Follow us for all the news on the Tigers throughout their stay in Omaha. We're your home plate for all things LSU baseball. Yeah, I should have stopped a couple of sentences back. Scott Rabalais | 
