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SPORTS WE ARE ACADIANA. SINCE 1865. ADVERTISER THEDAILY theadvertiser.com Tom Brady vs. Ben Roethlisberger. Aaron Rodgers vs.

Matt Ryan. Quite a quartet of QBs is heading to the conference championship games next weekend: New England Patriots host Pittsburgh Steel- ers in the AFC, and Green Bay Packers play at Atlanta Falcons in the NFC. Consider the collective bona fides: Among them, Brady, Roethlisberger and Rodgers can boast of 10 Super Bowl appearances and sev- en titles, four Super Bowl MVP awards and four regular-season MVP awards. Not too bad. Ryan, never a Super Bowl participant, is the least-accomplished member of the final four, but he just so happens to be the quarterback on the All-Pro team this season and the favorite to collect ROAD TO THE SUPER BOWL Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan.

14 Atlanta 36, Seattle 20 New England 34, Houston 16 Sunday, Jan. 15 Green Bay 34, Dallas 31 Pittsburgh 18, Kansas City 16 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 22 NFC: Atlanta vs. Green Bay, 2:05 p.m. AFC: Pittsburgh at New England, 5:40 p.m.

Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 5 At Houston TBD, 5:30 p.m. (FOX) NFL PLAYOFFS: DIVISIONAL SERIES JAY BIGGERSTAFF-USA TODAY SPORTS Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell (26) runs the ball as Chiefs defensive back Daniel Sorensen (49) defends Sunday during the AFC Divisional playoff game at Arrowhead Stadium. QB battles ahead in conference games ASSOCIATED PRESS INSIDE More NFL playoffs news, 4C On Tuesday at halftime of the Lafayette Christian Academy District 7-1A basketball game against Gueydan the score was 53-0. Read that sentence again.

53-0. The final score ended up being 90-12. Three days later the Knights beat Hanson 98-32. Games like this are why the proposal by principal Mike Boyer and Catholic of New principal Ray Simon is so important at the upcoming LHSAA General Business meeting. Let me be clear before continuing: not blaming Lafayette Christian for winning big.

Teams have to get work in. The Knights spend the final two months of their season feeling bad for other teams and not playing their starters at all or imposing scoring limit rules like you can only score with your offhand. So, yes, when you look at the scores of those games very easy to lay all of the blame at the feet of Lafayette Christian, but they have to play the teams in front of them. the same problem in football. Many high school, who loudly and openly complains about the unfair advantage private schools hold over public schools, outscored their district opponents 265-32 in the final five weeks of the season.

an average game score of 53 to six, which to me is pretty similar to what Lafayette Christian does in basketball. where the rule comes into play. The way the proposal is currently written, the Executive Director (Eddie Bonine) would have the authority to place any specific sports program at a school in a higher classification or division beginning with 2019-20 TREY LABAT LHSAA proposal needs to be passed Shuffle along. Nothing to see here. After a bit of a fender-bender against Georgia Southern on Saturday night at the Cajun- dome, the approach the UL basketball team is taking as it readies itself to close a three- game Sun Belt Conference homestand against Jeremy Hollowell-led Georgia State on Monday night.

shake it Cajuns coach Bob Marlin said after an 81-76 loss to Georgia Southern that ended the 12-5 run of consecutive home wins this season at eight in a row. was the theme in the locker It was a message delivered, and it evidently was heard loud and clear. just one of those junior big man Bryce Washington said. mean, hey, move on to the got to get senior point guard Jay Wright added. I mean, along year.

We get to play them (Georgia Southern) when we go there (Feb. 6), so just got to shake it off and get ready for the next That would be Monday against 9-7 Georgia State, which is coming off an overtime win Saturday at UL UL BASKETBALL SHAKE IT OFF BUDDY TO THE ADVERTISER After losing to Georgia Southern on Saturday night, Bryce Washington (32) and the 12-5 Cajuns look to move on Monday night against Georgia State. Cajuns seek to move on past loss, face Georgia State TIM BUCKLEY appeal to the NCAA to get another year of eligibility in 2017 for quarterback Anthony Jennings has been denied, Cajuns coach Mark Hudspeth said Sunday night. The Cajuns earlier this month filed what is called an of eligibility for Jennings, a former LSU starter who started as a graduate transfer for UL in 2016. UL was trying to get a fifth year for Jennings, who had been hoping for it ever since deciding to transfer.

The basis of the appeal was that Jennings, who started for the Tigers as a true sophomore in 2014, played very sparingly for LSU as a true junior in 2015. According to LSU statistics, he appeared in only two games that year and accumulated no rushing or passing stats. Jennings only handed the ball off in late-game situations in that season, then after CAJUNS FOOTBALL NCAA denies UL QB request for eligibility waiver LEE ADVERTISER An appeal to the NCAA for an extra year of eligibility for UL quarterback Anthony Jennings has been denied. TIM BUCKLEY.