Former LSU star Joe Burrow tells the magazine he's "into decoration, flowers, butterflies, all that cool stuff." Same, TBH. Photos: Courtesy of Sports Illustrated / Clay Patrick McBride
🐯Joe Burrow is the picture of cool on the cover of Sports Illustrated this month. The former LSU star and current Bengals QB talks about his foray into high fashion. (Read the story)
🥊 Dustin Poirier will be walked out by Lil Wayne tomorrow as the Lafayette native and UFC champ enters the Smoothie King Center ring for his final fight. (ESPN considers this his retirement.)
Poirier also visited the Saints this week. (Instagram)
✍️ President Trump signed a Sen. Bill Cassidy-sponsored bill into law, permanently listing fentanyl-like substances among the most dangerous drugs and creating harsher punishments for its dealers. (The Washington Post)
🥤 The president also says Coca-Cola will switch from using corn syrup as a soda sweetener to cane sugar. (Axios)
Coke hasn't confirmed the change, but that hasn't stopped Louisiana agriculture officials from promoting our sugar.
❌ Louisiana's biggest coastal project, the Mid-Barataria Diversion, is officially dead, making formal a long-expected but controversial decision. (The Times-Picayune 🔒)
