There are 450 members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., founded in 1959. Thirteen more will be enshrined Aug. 16-17. Two will be Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame members.
He was a gentle giant, a Louisiana Tech All-American who was as kind off the football field as he was ferocious on it, a servant leader who continually invested deeply in his alma mater, in his hometown of Shreveport and in relationships including those first formed in college nearly 80 years ago.
Longtime Southland Conference commissioner Tom Burnett, a Louisiana Tech alumnus who also was a Sun Belt Conference administrator, is the 2024 winner of the Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Award presented by the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
Two versatile and acclaimed sports writers, Opelousas’ Bobby Ardoin and Ron Higgins of Baton Rouge, have been selected for the 2024 Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024, including New Orleans Saints superstar Drew Brees, LSU and WNBA women’s basketball great Seimone Augustus, and mixed martial arts icon Daniel Cormier, will be enshrined next June.
Only the elite sports figures in state history are chosen for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Now, thanks to a new membership opportunity, everybody can get involved.
NFL record-setting passer and Super Bowl XLIV MVP Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints joins LSU women’s basketball great and eight-time WNBA All-Star Seimone Augustus along with mixed martial arts icon Daniel Cormier of Lafayette in a star-studded nine-member group of 2024 “competitors” ballot inductees chosen for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
Two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning, four-time WNBA All-Star Alana Beard and College World Series champion baseball coach Paul Mainieri are part of a star-studded 12-member group of honorees recently inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame this July.
Twelve people does not a village make, but plenty of villages made the 12 inductees in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2023.
Perhaps the most famous reluctant center in football had the stage to himself Friday afternoon at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
