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By TEDDY ALLEN/Designated Writers I was innocently standing around at Louisiana Tech football practice last week, about 10 feet from the…

By NICO VAN THYN/Designated Contributor Sixty years after he played his last football game for Louisiana Tech, J.W. Slack is going...Read More

By JERRY BYRD, JR./Designated Correspondent When Joe Raymond Peace received the call this spring informing him he was going into the…

By TEDDY ALLEN (Eddie Holman and seven others — Olympian Chelsea Hayes, All-American running backs J.W. Slack and Ryan Moats, legendary…

This is the final chapter of what’s basically an online book written by retired sportswriter/copy editor/DW’s former boss Nico Van Thyn...Read More

By DON WALKER/Designated Contributor Along the lines of asking someone, “How are you?” in passing, or asking the spouse, “How was…

PRE-GAME NOTE -- Both of the founders of Designated Writers have gone from being sports writers to jobs in the education...Read More

By MATT VINES/Written for the LSWANATCHITOCHES – Saturday was a night of firsts — and seconds, and sevenths — for the…

By SCOOTER HOBBS Written for the LSWA A noted Michigan Man from Ohio who first made his name in Oklahoma and…

Designated Contributor Nico Van Thyn wrote this five years ago. Never hurts to read it again, for all sorts of reasons…Nico’s…

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