Justin Margolius
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Justin Margolius is a sports reporter as well as a weekend anchor for the KPLC Sports team. Justin graduated from Full Sail University with a degree in Sportscasting. He has covered events like the Indiana Basketball State Championships, MLB Spring Training, and more.
While attending Full Sail's Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting, Justin reported at Rollins College as a sideline reporter and play-by-play broadcaster.
Justin loves to tell stories and has interviewed a multitude of athletes, like Will Modglin, who is the No. 1 high school swimming recruit in the country.
He also anchored Full Sail Live on a number of different sports and has also been a sports radio show host for WBDG 90.9 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Justin is originally from Avon, Indiana, but also lived in Orlando, Florida, for three years.
He is a huge college basketball enthusiast and loves to play a number of different sports.
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Wednesday morning head coach of the McNeese Cowboys baseball team Justin Hill announced the 2024 schedule with the first game of the season set for February 16.
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The McNeese Cowboys fell on the road Saturday afternoon 52-27 to the Lamar Cardinals officially dropping them to (0-10) on the season for the first time in program history.
The McNeese Cowboys football team is ready to travel to Beaumont, Texas to take on their rivals in the Lamar Cardinals a team they beat last year 24-20 at Cowboy Stadium, and head coach Gary Goff knows his team is ready to have one more chance at getting a win this season.
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The McNeese Cowboys sit at (4-0) but now have one of their toughest stretches of the season as they are set to travel out to Western Carolina to take on the Catamounts, then they will head over to Ruston, Louisiana to take on both Texas State and Louisiana Tech in a MTE, and then finally will finish up the stretch at UAB.
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The McNeese Cowboys have played nine games this season and have lost nine games, and now as the team heads into their final game against the Lamar Cardinals, they are still trying to fix problems that have not been solved.
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We are officially done with the first round of the LHSAA Football playoffs, and in SWLA nine teams now remain as we head into the regional round of the postseason.
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Lake Charles, and Southwest Louisiana as a whole, has become somewhat of a breeding ground for baseball at all levels, so much so that five players from Southwest Louisiana now wear the purple and gold for the reigning National Champion LSU baseball team, and last week they returned to Lake Charles with the Tigers for a fall exhibition game against McNeese.
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Wednesday afternoon the McNeese Cowboys held a student event at the McNeese Recreational Center to try to help build up fan support.
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The McNeese Cowboys baseball team was in action to wrap up their fall ball season with 18 innings worth of baseball split into two games against the defending national champions in the LSU Tigers.
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The McNeese Cowboys put a solid run together in the second half to make things close against Southeastern, but the Lions just made the most important plays in the end as they took down the Cowboys 38-24.
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Week Five Touchdown Live Matchups, and Sonic Game of the Week
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After being off two out of the last three weeks the McNeese Cowboys are going to be back on the field set to take on the Southeastern Lions on the road.
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We are through nine weeks of high school football action here in Southwest Louisiana
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The McNeese Cowgirls took down the Texas A&M-Commerce Lions in four sets earlier Saturday afternoon, and now have won eight out of their last ten games overall.
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The St. Louis Catholic Saints are heading into their week nine matchup against Iowa trying to do something that they failed to do this past season beat the Yellowjackets.
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The Iowa Yellowjackets are heading into week nine trying to do the exact same thing they did last season, beat the St. Louis Catholic Saints to win a 3-3A-District Championship, and Head Coach of the Yellowjackets Tommy Johns understands the challenge of taking on a Saints team that has had one of the top defenses in the entire state of Louisiana.
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The McNeese Cowboys are coming off another disappointing week of football as they gave up their third fourth-quarter lead of the season, this time to Incarnate Word.
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The Texas Rangers came into the night facing elimination against the Houston Astros and left forcing a winner-take-all all Game Seven after beating the Astros 9-2 in Game Six of the ALCS.
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The Lake Arthur Tigers are hitting one of the most important parts of their season as they sit at 4-3 with a chance to take on their district-leading rival in the Welsh Greyhounds.
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The Welsh Greyhounds are coming into one of their biggest games of the season as they are set to take on the Lake Arthur Tigers in a big rivalry game this coming Friday.
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It has been over three years since Barbe had a sporting event in their school gym, and this Tuesday that changed as the Lady Bucs volleyball team beat New Iberia in straight sets 3-0 in their home gym.
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The McNeese Cowboys are heading into week eight of the college football season winless at 0-6, and are searching for some sort of momentum as they begin to prepare for Incarnate Word this weekend.
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The Houston Astros hosted the Texas Rangers in Game 1 of the ALCS and for the Astros, it was a tough night for their bats as they went on to lose 2 to 0.
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The McNeese Cowgirls ended the 2022-23 season on somewhat of a high note as they won their first Southland Conference Tournament game under Head Coach Lynn Kennedy before falling in overtime of the second round. This year, in year three under Lynn Kennedy, the Cowgirls are hoping to build on last season, and they feel good with about a month remaining until the year begins.
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The DeRidder Dragons are coming into their week seven rivalry game against Leesville sitting at 4-2, and head coach of the Dragons Brad Parmley believes this is a test that could propel them through the rest of the season.
Southland Conference Media Day was held on Tuesday at Coushatta Casino and Resort in Kinder, and one of the teams with the most hype around them, as we get closer and closer to the 2023-24 season, resides in Lake Charles. McNeese had a massive offseason as they brought in a new head coach in Will Wade, and made a huge splash in the transfer portal as well.
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Southland Basketball Media Day is underway as every men’s and women’s team in the conference answers the media’s questions. Below is the schedule for the day and updates coming from the event as a whole.
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It was a tough night out in Houston for the Astros as the Minnesota Twins jumped out early on the hosting team and never looked back winning 6-2.
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The McNeese Cowboys traveled on the road to Commerce, Texas to take on Texas A&M-Commerce and fell to the Lions 41-3.
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The Houston Astros kicked off their postseason run with a 6-4 win over the third-seeded Minnesota Twins.
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Sulphur is coming into week six of the high school football season with a chip on their shoulder as they head into one of their biggest games of the season against the Barbe Buccaneers.
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The McNeese Cowboys are rolling into week six of the college football season sitting in an uncomfortable spot at (0-5) after losing their conference opener 31-10 to Nicholls at home.
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The Houston Astros clinched their third straight AL West title after beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-1 Sunday afternoon.
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The Sulphur Golden Tors are coming into week five of the high school football season at (2-2), and this week they will be tasked with taking on the Sam Houston Broncos in one of the biggest SWLA rivalries.
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Sam Houston is getting prepared for one of the most anticipated matchups of the season in SWLA, and as their game against Sulphur draws closer head coach of the undefeated Broncos Chad Davis knows just how tough taking on the Golden Tors will be.
The McNeese Cowboys traveled out to Charleston, Illinois earlier Saturday afternoon to take on an Eastern Illinois that they beat last season 29-15 at home. This year though things went very different as the Panthers mounted a second-half comeback that saw them beat the Cowboys 31-28 in the final seconds of the game.
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Thursday night the McNeese Cowboys basketball team hosted their annual Tip-Off Celebration with the entire team in attendance.
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The Kinder Yellow Jackets are heading into week four of the high school football season sitting at (3-0 for the first time since 2014 after beating the Rosepine Eagles this past week 34-0.
The McNeese Cowboys are heading into week four of the college football season in a similar spot as last year as they are now (0-3) for the second season in a row.
McNeese took on Alcorn for the second straight season and in back-to-back seasons fell to the Braves by double figures as the Cowboys fell on the road 17-3.
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Week two of the 2023 High School football season is officially a wrap, but now teams look to bounce back from a week two loss or continue their winning ways as week three approaches.
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Heading into week three of the college football season, the McNeese Cowboys are (0-2) for the third year in a row after falling this past weekend 49-7 on the road to the Florida Gators.
The McNeese Cowboys traveled out to Gainesville, Florida for their week two matchup after coming off a home loss to Tarleton State at home just a week ago.
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The Welsh Greyhounds are rolling into their week two match-up against the Westlake Rams feeling like they have something to prove after they fell in their season opener to Kinder 46-28.
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Week one of the college football season is in the books, and it was as head coach of the McNeese Cowboys Gary Goff put it a shocking week that he did not expect as they lost 52-34 to Tarleton State.
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The Leesville Wampus Cats are heading into their week one match-up against the Jennings Bulldogs with big expectations on their shoulders following an impressive 2022 season in which they made the State Playoff quarterfinals, and finished with an overall record of 10-3, but if they want to repeat that success in 2023, and potentially make a run at the Superdome, they’ll have to take it day-by-day, and it all starts on Friday vs. Jennings.
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High school football is finally back in SWLA, and the Jennings Bulldogs are now only a couple of days away from their season-opening match-up against the Leesville Wampus Cats.
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It is officially game week for the McNeese football team as they prepare for their first game of the 2023 season on Saturday when they welcome Tarleton State to Cowboy Stadium. On Monday, McNeese Head Coach Gary Goff met with the media ahead of the season opener.
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Friday night marked the final day of the Sulphur SPOT Jamboree as eight teams were looking to get in real game situations before the season starts in one week.
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The Sulphur SPOT jamboree’s first day ended with six teams taking the field for their final opportunities before the regular season starts.
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