Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns will now have all three of their remaining home games televised after the athletic department reached a deal with Cox 4 to televise the Nov. 1 homecoming game vs. FIU. The Cajuns home games vs. UTEP on Nov. 8 and vs. Middle Tennessee on Dec. 3 are scheduled to be televised by [...]

Trick or Treat Time:
Oct. 31, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The Punkin’ Patch. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Oct. 28-31. Complete with hay bales, Indian corn, gourds, small barnyard animals, hundreds of pumpkins, fun jumps, and hayrides. One-hour field tours for Pre-K – second grade are available. Field trip include a movie on the life cycle of a [...]

The celebration started for UL as soon as Arkansas State’s last-second Hail Mary pass fell harmlessly to the turf in the end zone with no time remaining.
Within seconds, injured quarterback Mike Desormeaux showed as much excitement as one could with a sprained right knee. He soon found redshirt freshman Brad McGuire, who led the Ragin’ [...]

Had a couple of questions about how alligator is prepared and what kind of recipe’s is it more popular in, so here is one found very often in cajun country.  Enjoy!
Ingredience:
2-5lbs – Alligator meat
1 -  can tomatoe sauce (16 oz)
1/4 – cup butter or margarine
1 – chilli pepper / or hot pepper
1 – onion chopped
1 [...]

If you think a running game can’t be spicy, you’ve never seen it Cajun style.
The most productive rushing offense in major college football is Louisiana-Lafayette’s lofty 332.1 yards a game.
But this is no wishbone team that relies on time-consuming drives. The Ragin’ Cajuns can do that, but they’re just as likely to [...]

The wetlands and barrier islands of Louisiana — nature’s way of absorbing tidal surges during tropical storms — are almost gone. We may not be able to restore them.

“[The] wetlands and barrier islands that once formed the southern fringe of Louisiana have…vanished: 1,900 square miles since the 1930s, an area the size [...]

 
Kenner, La. – A storm-weary Mayor David Carmardelle said he was in the attic of Grand Isle Town Hall trying to pull his Hurricane Gustav damaged town back together when a phone call came in from fellow Jefferson Mayor Ed Muniz of Kenner.
“My friend Ed Muniz said his city was ready to help us,” Carmardelle [...]

For one of Lafayette’s premier cultural festivals, 2008 is a year of changes
Festivals Acadiens, which begins Friday with Downtown Alive! and continues through the weekend, becomes Festivals Acadiens et Creoles this year, a name change that better reflects the scope of this more than 30-year-old event, organizers say.
Folklorist Barry Ancelet, who has worked with the [...]

Marinade:
1 – tsp cajun hot sauce
2 – tsp mustard (reg)
1 – cup italian dressing
1/2 – garlic clove chopped fine
1/2 – tsp salt
1/2 – tsp ground black pepper
Juice from 1/2 a lemon
Ingredience:

2 – lbs of filet catfish (can sub w/other fish if needed)
2 – med sized onions
2 – lemons
1/2 – tsp cumin
1/2 – tsp thyme
1/2-1 [...]

 
The smack-talk leading up to Saturday’s Sun Belt football game between Louisiana-Lafayette and ULM first started this past summer.
ULL’s Louis Lee and ULM’s Radi Jabour – former prep teammates at East St. John – stood on opposite ends of the spectrum in their predictions.
“It was just some simple talk about when we were going to [...]