Legacy

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The Red Stick Roller Derby Girls were founded in July 2007 by Mary Koehler and Brandy Rojas. The Derby Girls are made up of Baton Rouge residents, LSU students and alums. These ladies went helmet-to-helmet against the Mississippi Roller Girls on January 23 in the Baton Rouge River Center. After two 30-minute halves the hometown [...]

The LSU baseball team enters the 2010 season as the defending national champion. One reason: strong pitching. LSU ended the 2009 season with the ninth-ranked team ERA (4.01) in Division I College Baseball. With the departure of the team’s No. 1 pitcher, Louis Coleman, junior Anthony Ranaudo has to step up this upcoming season as [...]

The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine acquired a Hitachi Echelon 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) unit in April. “This is the first and only high field MRI unit in the state of Louisiana for veterinary use,” according to a veterinary school press release. Magnetic resonance imaging is a non-invasive technique that uses magnetic fields [...]