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Link Gumbo 2/22/12

By PodKATT

I'm not entirely sure what all that was about. Moving on...

Billy Cannon is back home from the hospital after suffering a stroke. His family says he is recovering well.

Cam Cameron's contract was unveiled this week. He'll get a 3 year, 3.4 Million dollar deal that is mostly back loaded as an incentive against him leaving for another NFL job in the future. As EDSBS notes, that's just enough for him to start his own drug cartel.

Football Scoop has a great interview with LSU recruiting coordinator Frank Wilson, covering topics like the recent rule changes and how important freshmen are to LSU's yearly plans.

Football has begun their offseason workouts ahead of Spring Football and LSU S&C coach Tommy Moffitt went on BR radio to discuss the program(MP3 Link).

LSU Legacy Magazine has an interesting piece in the current issue about the history of the costumed Mike mascot.

Remember when LSU-Tulane was relevant? Since you just read that question on a computer, I bet you don't. I ran across this extremely detailed story about the history of the rivalry, focusing around the 1972 matchup.

It's already time for the 2013 NFL Combine. The first few days are for paperwork and interviews, but Geaux247 has a comprehensive schedule of who will be appearing where over the next few days.

Andrew Del Piero is about to hit the big time as ESPN is going to have a segment on him during tomorrow's College Gameday morning show. ESPN also put out this interesting blog post from the segment's producer.

LSU basketball signee Jarell Martin, the 5 star prospect from Madison Prep in Baton Rouge, has been named to the McDonald's All-American team, the first BR native to do so since "Big Baby" Glenn Davis.

JaMarcus Russell has been rumored to be taking another shot at the NFL for years, but this time he appears to be making a serious run at it. Bleacher Report is even filming a series on his training process with Jeff Garcia.

MLB's "The Next Knuckler" competition ended last night with former LSU QB Josh Booty winning the prize, a tryout at AZ Diamondbacks spring camp. Booty beat out an odd group of former college QBs that included his brother John David Booty, early 00's UGA star David Greene, legendary BC QB Doug Flutie, and another former Tiger in Ryan Perriloux. Perriloux also performed well on the show, being eliminated just before the final round. He had such a good performance that the Kansas City Royals contacted him about coming to their spring camp.

If Gorilla Ball is dead, can we use Guerilla Ball instead? DIG magazine poses the question about the new era of LSU baseball.

It's kinda surprising when you remember that LSU has had a first round MLB pick each of the last 4 seasons. MiLB.com caught up with all four of them to reflect on their college experience. Elsewhere, DJ LeMahieu might earn a starting role in Colorado this spring.

Add Kurt McCune to the baseball injured list. Mainieri revealed that the JR pitcher has a fractured vertebrae and will be out at least a month.

There was a no-hitter on the opening weekend of D-1 ball, but hardly anyone noticed. College and Mag examines the current role of HBCUs in college baseball and why they are important.

Journeyman offensive coach Billy Gonzales is back in the SEC. After a brief stint as the Illinois OC, he was recently hired as the WR coach at Miss. St., the same role he had at LSU a few seasons ago.

Our SBN "co workers" (i hesitate to call them buddies) at Off Tackle Empire (lorded over by our Uncle Sherman) have a great two part interview with former LSU head coach, now Big Ten network analyst Gerry DiNardo, on why the B1G keeps falling behind in recruiting and the future expansion plans of the conference. Even though he basically works for the conference, he pulls no punches in stating what's wrong in the B1G today and how he thinks it can be fixed.

The long road of the CFB preseason has begun as Bill Connelly begins his series of previewing every single D-1 team.