BATON ROUGE — The LSU athletic community will take center stage on ESPN’s Outside the Lines tonight as host Jeremy Schaap takes a first-hand look at the contributions made by the Tiger student-athletes during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Outside the Lines, a 20-minute nightly show on ESPN, will air at 12:40 a.m. tonight on cable ch. 35 in the Baton Rouge area followed by a second showing at 6:40 a.m. on Friday on ESPN2 (cable ch. 36 in Baton Rouge).
Earlier this week, Schaap spent a couple days in the Baton Rouge, getting an up-close look at what LSU’s student-athletes have done to help ease the pain for so many who lost so much because of Hurricane Katrina.
Among the highlights of the 20-minute show include interviews with four members of the LSU men’s basketball team, who all spent numerous hours volunteering at the Maravich Assembly Center, which was used as a triage center for victims of the hurricane.
Schaap also visited with LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux and football’s Andrew Whitworth. Schaap also has an interview with LSU football walk-on Donald Hains, who didn’t hear from his parents for 10 days. Hains finally made contact with his parents, who are okay, on Wednesday.
“It’s an overview of different vignettes of LSU athletes called upon to assist,” Schaap told the Baton Rouge Advocate. “We looked at how this affected them, from guys having relatives in their apartments, to how they helped with bringing in supplies, to assisting at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.”