During Louisiana Tech’s 100th Homecoming celebration, a special moment played out on the field as the 1952 Homecoming Queen Miriam Pipes Savage crowned the 2025 Homecoming Queen Annie Heard. To some, this may have been the simple passing of a torch, but it’s a moment that represented a connection between two generations with a shared […]
Best in Show
Louisiana Tech ended its Centennial Homecoming Celebration Week with an exclamation point as eight of its all-time greats were inducted into the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame. The Class of 2025 cried. Lots of emotion. Joy, gratitude, tears of remembering. And they laughed. Laughed about the thrill of competition, the silliness in and familiarity of […]
Impact Immortalized
Legacy Plaza, a lasting tribute to Joe Aillet and Maxie Lambright for their profound influence on the University and its football tradition, opened this fall on the same day the football team closed its 2025 regular season home schedule with a huge comeback win. Joe Aillet came to Louisiana from New York City on an […]
Barking Up the Right Tree
Audrey Calhoun credits Louisiana Tech for her one-of-a-kind career in forestry Audrey Calhoun, who in 1973 graduated from Louisiana Tech’s School of Agricultural Sciences and Forestry, didn’t set out to be a trailblazer. Her original plan wasn’t to become the first female to graduate from Tech with a bachelor’s in Forestry. Or the first black […]
Super Dogs
Max Causey, Milton Williams earn spots on football’s biggest stage With 10 minutes left in Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, there was a funny, Ruston-flavored moment the cameras didn’t catch between two Louisiana Tech football lettermen, each in a key role for his respective “team.” Milton “Big Milt” Williams, the Louisiana […]
A Football Destiny: Jimmy Johnson and Terry Bradshaw
Before Super Bowl LXI, two hall-of-famers engaged in a small on-air dispute. Longtime friends Jimmy Johnson and Terry Bradshaw came to blows during the pregame coverage of the NFC Championship between the eventual Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders. “I have a little conflict with you,” said Johnson. “You said you could […]