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Tiger Rag Magazine is a publication and website in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that focuses on Louisiana State University athletics and bills itself as "the Bible of LSU sports." Tiger Rag is owned by Louisiana Radio Network. Since its beginning in 1978, publication schedules vary with individual sports season, though it is produced weekly through much of the year. Tiger Rag also hosts a website, (TigerRag.com ), distributes Tiger Rag Daily, a free email newsletter, and produces "(Tiger Rag Radio )," a weekly call-in sports talk show. Tiger Rag offers game previews and recaps, in-depth interviews and photos. Featured columnists include Jim Engster, owner and president of LRN, (Glenn Guilbeau ), who covers LSU for Gannett News Service, and (Marty Mulé ), a sportswriter who worked for the New Orleans Times-Picayune for more than 30 years. The magazine is known for extensive coverage of LSU football recruiting and insider information with its annual football-season preview being the most popular issue. Tiger Rag has been, at times, influential in shaping public opinion on teams' quality of play and administrators' decisions. Former LSU Basketball Coach Trent Johnson resigned his position and accepted a similar post at Texas Christian University shortly after a story by former Tiger Rag Editor Ben Love accented difficulties Johnson had with ex LSU standout Collis Temple. ==History== Steve Myers and Steve Townsend launched Tiger Rag in August 1978, two years after graduating from LSU. Myers had considered a magazine devoted to local football coverage as early as the 1960s, when he worked as a teen phoning in brief stories on area high school teams to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Myers and Townsend met as student-workers in the LSU sports information department and realized the office had significant amounts of material that would appeal to fans. Before the advent of the Internet and other specialty publications, however, much of the material essentially was unavailable publicly if it did not appear in conventional media reports. Despite working on a business plan and consulting with others who had considered the same concept, Myers and Townsend were unable to launch the publication. They parted ways after graduation assuming someone would beat them to their idea. In 1977, Townsend was working with the Southeastern Conference league office in Birmingham, Ala., while Myers was an assistant in the University of Mississippi sports-information department. That fall, Townsend visited the Mississippi campus as an SEC representative when the football team hosted the University of Notre Dame for a game that attracted national attention. Myers and Townsend, along with Myers’ friend Gary Solomon, reunited and decided to pursue the idea of an LSU sports magazine. The name suggested by another friend, Tiger Rag was incorporated in June 1978. Myers served as publisher and editor, while Townsend was co-editor. The magazine debuted Sept. 1, 1978, featuring senior LSU running back Charles Alexander and former running back and Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon on the cover. The company spent about $8,000 on the first issue of 50,000 copies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tiger Rag Magazine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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