BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU Tiger Tracks, a program highlighting various aspects of the university and its athletic department, can be seen at 9 p.m. CT Wednesday and at 2 p.m. CT Thursday on Cox Sports Television.
The show, hosted by Jordy Hultberg and Bill Franques, is a weekly 30-minute production featuring interviews with LSU administrators, coaches and student-athletes, along with a look at some of the events and scholarly activity on campus.
LSU Tiger Tracks begins with a visit to the studio from baseball coach Paul Mainieri, who discusses the fifth-ranked Tigers’ season-opening series this weekend versus Cincinnati in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field.
The show continues with a feature on legendary New Orleans sportswriter Peter Finney, who has covered LSU football since 1945 and is the author of the most comprehensive history of the program entitled, The Fighting Tigers.
LSU Tiger Tracks concludes with a report on the involvement of LSU scientists in the discovery of gravitational waves, which are ripples in the fabric of space-time arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe.