Tiger Beat: Covering LSU Sports for 35 Years

by Sam King

Overview

Tiger Beat is a 240-page hardcover book by a veteran sportswriter who covered LSU football and basketball for Baton Rouge, La., newspapers for 35 years. It features the head coaches over a 50-year span, starting in the mid-1950s, as well as big games and top athletes, including the “Chinese Bandits,” Billy Cannon, “Pistol Pete” Maravich, Chris Jackson and Shaquille O’Neal.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148417224
Publisher:	Acadian House Publishing
Publication date:	09/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

SAM KING is a veteran sportswriter, editor and columnist, having worked his entire career with the Baton Rouge State-Times and The Advocate, beginning in 1956. He retired in 2001 and continued writing his popular column, “Sam’s Kingdom of Sports,” for the Sunday Advocate for another eight years.

He is the author of two books, ‘Cholly Mac’ and Tiger Beat, and the co-author of one, Tiger Turnaround. He and his wife Linda live near Pierre Part, Louisiana.