Bash on the Bayou: KNOE 8 News and KNOE 8 Sports cover everything to do with the ULM v Baylor game happening September 21th.
Monroe, La. (KNOE 8 News) - Cables winding around Malone Stadium on the ULM campus will be feeding power to eight or nine ESPN cameras.
Working crews told KNOE 8 News that those cameras will be spread throughout the stadium, with the announcer booth set up in the boxes above around the 50-yard line.
Pre-production will last until 7:00 Thursday night with massive generators running more than 40 hours to power it all.
Crews also said Malone Stadium doesn't have enough lighting for HD broadcasts, so a lighting company brought in more.
Amidst all of these changes around the stadium, changes have been happening for the school itself.
"Our bookstore sales for clothingware is up 300-and-something percent over the last two weeks," ULM President, Nick Bruno, said.
ULM freshman enrollment is already up 10% from 2011 and since the football team's success, their word is spreading farther.
"I just received an E-mail from a young woman in Mobile (Alabama). She wants to know about ULM," Bruno said.
As ESPN completes their changes around the stadium, Bruno is happy to see a positive change amongst ULM students.
"You walk the bridge to get to the cafeteria and you see so many students in their maroon and gold or their white," he said. "They're smiling. Students here are happy. They're excited about being part of ULM. They're glad they made the decision."
Friday, May 24 2013 10:47 PM EDT2013-05-25 02:47:06 GMT
MOREHOUSE PARISH, La. (KNOE 8 News) - A search is underway for an inmate who escaped from Morehouse Parish.25-year-old Christopher Allen Jones walked away from a work detail on Friday afternoon. Neighboring
MOREHOUSE PARISH, La. (KNOE 8 News) - A search is underway for an inmate who escaped from Morehouse Parish.
Friday, May 24 2013 6:40 PM EDT2013-05-24 22:40:16 GMT
RIVER RIDGE, La. (AP) - Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies say a 52-year-old man apparently shot his 16-year-old son in the head and then turned the gun on himself in their home in River Ridge.
RIVER RIDGE, La. (AP) - Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies say a 52-year-old man apparently shot his 16-year-old son in the head and then turned the gun on himself in their home in River Ridge.
Friday, May 24 2013 5:06 PM EDT2013-05-24 21:06:12 GMT
Monroe, La. (KNOE 8 News) - Police arrested Thomas Wroten this afternoon following a domestic dispute. At 9:15pm last night Monroe Police received an emergent call for help in the 5300 block of Blanks.
Monroe, La. (KNOE 8 News) - Police arrested Thomas Wroten this afternoon following a domestic dispute.
A Virginia man who was once one of the nation's most prominent swimming coaches has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.
A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.
