John Brady (Official Hall of Fame portrait by Christopher Brown) By GLENN GUILBEAU Written for the LSWA Former LSU men’s basketball coach John Brady wanted to be a coach back when he was at McComb High in the early 1970s. But little did he know that the contacts he would make by chance would lead to the promised land of the 2006 Final Four, induction into the LSU Athletics Hall of Fame last fall, the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame last May and now,

Sylvia Fowles (Official Hall of Fame Portrait by Christopher Brown) By C. KENT LOWE Written for the LSWA All I guess that the Louisiana Sports Writers Association can say tonight is, “we’re sorry.” Almost always, we have been proud to start the run of big Hall of Fame inductions here in Natchitoches for stars of their games. But this time, the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Hall of Fame beat us to the punch last year. Our rules for induction after retirement

Kathy Stewart Holloway (Official Hall of Fame portrait by Christopher Brown) By BOB TOMPKINS Written for the LSWA Kathy Stewart Holloway’s life has been marked by unprecedented achievement as a woman in high school sports once ruled by men. Yet, she points with love to two men who, behind the scenes, helped her along the way. Her father, Jack Stewart, a car salesman, put up her first basketball goal on the side of a building on the family property in Lecompte when she was a t

Joe Horn (Official Hall of Fame portrait by Christopher Brown) By SHELDON MICKLES Written for the LSWA Compared to some of his NFL peers, Joe Horn ran a decidedly different pass route to stardom. After all, the many twists and turns that led Horn, a multi-sport high school star, to becoming one of the league’s premier wide receivers would have probably left even a Hollywood script writer a bit dizzy. From his hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina, to being selected i