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Texas duck hunters searched the lakes, rivers and bays for ducks this season and mostly found very few birds. It was a big-time disappointing season overall. Photo by Robert Sloan

Texas duck hunters searched the lakes, rivers and bays for ducks this season and mostly found very few birds. It was a big-time disappointing season overall. Photo by Robert Sloan

Outdoors with Robert Sloan

Robert Sloan
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Thank goodness this duck season is over. It was absolutely the worst that I can remember after over five decades of chasing these wonderful waterfowl. I don’t know what happened, it’s anybody’s guess. Its’s not that we have an acute shortage of ducks.
LU

LU

Lamar football adds 13 on National Signing Day

News Staff
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Lamar University added 13 players on National Signing Day – nine signees and four transfers (including two FBS transfers). With the 13 additions Wednesday, it brings the Cardinals’ 2022 Signing Class to a total of 29.
Faircloth (from pngindians.com)

Faircloth (from pngindians.com)

PN-G’s Faircloth headed to Sulphur Springs

News Staff
Monday, January 24, 2022
After 13 seasons as the athletic director and head football coach at PN-G High School, Brandon Faircloth is set to take the same positions at Class 5A Sulphur Springs High School. Faircloth , who went 102-51 for the Indians, will replace Greg Owens.
Graphic courtesy of Lamar University.

Graphic courtesy of Lamar University.

Trailblazers use late surge to defeat LU

News Staff
Friday, January 21, 2022
Senior Lincoln Smith scored a team-high 14 points and classmate C.J. Roberts added 12, but the story of the game was the late surge by Dixie State to hold off Lamar University, 71-55, Thursday evening from Burns Arena.   The Cardinals finished the night shooting 20-of-65 (.
Coaching for Literacy

Coaching for Literacy

Lamar basketball fights for literacy

News Staff
Friday, January 21, 2022
Lamar University men’s and women’s basketball has partnered with Coaching for Literacy to help drive down the illiteracy statistics in Beaumont through the inaugural #Fight4Literacy Games, presented by International Paper. The LU men will #Fight4Literacy versus Tarleton State on Wednesday, Jan.
Image courtesy of Lamar Athletics

Image courtesy of Lamar Athletics

LU men’s basketball reigns in new year with COVID struggles

Tim Cohrs
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Lamar University men’s basketball began the new year with COVID and other illnesses affecting their ability to fairly compete in WAC conference play. In a statement by Lamar Athletics on Jan. 20, the LU men’s basketball program “continues to battle through the WAC.
'Definitely not the best photo I've ever shot with my cell phone, this is the bobcat I watched eat a dead duck last Saturday morning' - Robert Sloan

'Definitely not the best photo I've ever shot with my cell phone, this is the bobcat I watched eat a dead duck last Saturday morning' - Robert Sloan

Bobcats and pigs save the day on a slow duck hunt

Robert Sloan
Friday, January 14, 2022
With the closing of the regular gun season on deer, some buds and I shifted gears and opted to go duck and pig hunting last weekend. As expected, the duck hunting didn’t work out too well. We made a hunt on a backwater slough off a creek and three of us got two teal and a spoonbill.
Marco Born

Marco Born

Lamar University athletic director taking leave of absence

Chad Cooper
Thursday, January 13, 2022
According to an email sent out by Lamar University, athletic director Marco Born is taking a "leave of absence" for "personal reasons" for the "foreseeable future," effective immediately. Associate Athletic Director Helene Thill will serve as the interim.
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