| BY BOB WARREN | Staff writer |
LSU’s big night: It’s been a crazy season for the LSU baseball team. At one point, some wondered if they’d even make the postseason. But tonight they face a winner-take-all game against North Carolina to keep their College World Series hopes alive. Big budget: The Legislature has adopted a state budget. Meghan Friedmann from our state politics team takes a look at which programs will get more and which will get less. Weather celebrity: He's become one of the best-known faces of TV hurricane reporting. So why was Jim Cantore on the Mississippi coast? 'Tis the season: Looking for a little hurricane history? How about this list of some of the recorded storms that have impacted Louisiana over the past several hundred years? Speaking of . . . Mark Schleifstein writes about the “rapid intensification” of hurricanes in the Gulf and the technology experts are using to try and predict it. Like the Lunch Line? Sign up here. Want to subscribe to The Times-Picayune? Boom! Here ya go. Thanks for reading, friends. Go be great today. Bob | 