| Good day, Tiger fans. If you weren't aware, Wednesday was LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey's birthday. Probably no need to get her a present, especially jewelry. She already has a new championship ring coming her way. What she probably would like as a present would be for her son Kramer's former LSU baseball team to win its regular season-ending series at Georgia, which starts Thursday. The Tigers have lost past two SEC series to Auburn and Mississippi State and need to get back trending in the right direction with the postseason just around the corner. What will it take? Better pitching, mostly. Not perfect pitching, just more consistency from the staff that aside from Paul Skenes has struggled mightily of late. All three games will be shown on a streaming basis only on SECNetwork+, starting at 5 p.m. CDT Thursday and Friday and noon CDT Saturday. Softball is set to begin hosting a four-team NCAA regional at Tiger Park on Friday, with top-seeded LSU taking on No. 4 Prairie View while No. 2-seeded UL faces No. 3 Omaha (yes, from that Omaha). We've got a feature on LSU pitcher Sydney Berzon, who has been a key figure for the Tigers in the circle her freshman season. (No fair asking if she can pitch for the baseball team, too.) With the SEC Track and Field Championships at LSU just over and the NCAA regionals ahead next week, two LSU women's track stars are on the watch list for The Bowerman, the sport's version of the Heisman Trophy. Finally, LSU President William Tate had some critical words for the way the WNBA does business after two members of LSU's NCAA championship team, Alexis Morris and LaDazhia Williams, were quickly cut but the teams that drafted them last month. One last thing: the PGA Championship begins Thursday at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. Former LSU Tiger Sam Burns tees off at 12:31 p.m. CDT Thursday, while ex-Tiger Ben Taylor tees off in the final group at 1:42 p.m. CDT. It's Taylor's first PGA Championship and first major championship start since the 2015 British Open. Here's a link to a column I did on Taylor at last month's Zurich Classic. That's a wrap on today's newsletter. Hit 'em (or pitch 'em) straight, folks. Scott Rabalais | 