Late Saturday afternoon, a friend came over to our home and said, "I have a mission for you."

I didn’t know what kind of mission he meant — but I was in.

He went on to explain that Ross Dellenger, formerly of this newspaper, now with Yahoo Sports, wrote a story titled " The sordid tale of LSU football, the Louisiana governor and a yearslong feud ," chronicling the topsy-turvy madness of the last 10 days of LSU football, the state's governor and the remaining cast of characters that could rival any teledrama.

Speaking about Scott Woodward, Dellenger wrote, "Like any good Louisiana politician, he’d prefer to keep things quiet, work in the shadows, possibly even operate in the backroom of a backroom in a certain Baton Rouge seafood house."

Years ago, Dellenger wrote that he had been to

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