Primary sources

Every document, record, and report the book stands on, sorted by kind, each one linked to where it lives. Court opinions, statutes, audits, official releases, and archives first; then the paper of record on campus; then the reporting; then the books; then the pictures. The reading room reproduces the public documents in full and carries all 96 numbered notes in the order the book cites them.

Court decisions

• Louisiana Public Facilities Authority v. All Taxpayers, consolidated with Hodge v. Board of Supervisors of LSU, Nos. 2003 CA 2738 and 2003 CA 2739 (La. App. 1 Cir. Dec. 23, 2003). The author's case. Majority and dissent.
• Dorsey v. State Athletic Commission, 168 F. Supp. 149 (E.D. La. 1958), affirmed, 359 U.S. 533 (1959). Act 579 of 1956, the ban on integrated games, struck down.
• The same opinion at CourtListener.
• Guste v. Nicholls College Foundation, 564 So. 2d 682 (La. 1990), as summarized in the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Open Government Guide: Louisiana.
• O'Bannon v. NCAA, 7 F. Supp. 3d 955 (N.D. Cal. 2014), affirmed in part, 802 F.3d 1049 (9th Cir. 2015); NCAA v. Alston, 594 U.S. 69 (2021); Johnson v. NCAA, 108 F.4th 44 (3d Cir. 2024); In re College Athlete NIL Litigation (House v. NCAA), No. 4:20-cv-03919 (N.D. Cal.), settlement approved June 6, 2025. Reporter citations; the opinions are on Justia and CourtListener.
• Les Miles's suit over the 37 vacated wins, filed June 17, 2024 (The Advocate).
• The Miles suit as filed, with the complaint's language (CBS Sports).
• The Miles suit in state court: the First Circuit denies the attorney general's request, July 16, 2025 (WAFB).
• The Miles suit dismissed by District Judge Ronald Johnson (Sports Illustrated, College Football HQ).

Statutes and the constitution

• La. R.S. 17:3390, the foundation statute, Act 1055 of 1992, at the Louisiana Legislature.
• La. R.S. 17:3390 at Justia, with the enactment and amendment history.
• La. R.S. 17:3351.5, the LSU Board's tuition and fee authority, citing Act 493 of 1999.
• La. R.S. 17:1806, student membership on the management boards.
• Louisiana Board of Regents, Uniform Policy on Power-Based Violence, adopted under Act 472 of 2021.
• LSU Office of Civil Rights and Title IX, first biannual report under Act 472, October 14, 2021.
• The Advocate on the governor signing Act 472, June 30, 2021.
• KATC on the Regents' policy under Acts 472, 439, and 447 of 2021.
• La. Const. art. VII, § 2.1 (Acts 1995, No. 1324) and 26 U.S.C. § 170(l) as repealed by Pub. L. 115-97, § 13704 (2017). Reproduced and discussed in the reading room.

Institutional and government records

• Tiger Athletic Foundation, audited financial statements, December 31, 2023 and 2022.
• Louisiana Legislative Auditor, Governmental Audit Guide § 300-1050, foundations and building corporations.
• Tiger Athletic Foundation, 'A Letter from Rick Perry,' on the Varsity Club and the foundation's founding.
• LSU Faculty Senate file: The Advocate's October 2002 report on the resolution against Chancellor Emmert's raise.
• LSU Athletics, Tiger Stadium at 100, the official expansion timeline.
• LSU Athletics, the east upper deck opens, September 2000.
• LSU Athletics, applications for the Stadium Club: $1,950 to $2,750 a seat, August 22, 2003.
• The Reveille, the west upper deck at $60 million, 2005.
• LSU Athletics, the south end zone proposal, April 2012.
• AP, the Board approves the $100 million plan, April 27, 2012.
• The Lemoine Company, the south end zone expansion, $78 million.
• LSU Athletics, season-ticket sellout: 71,250 sold, the record 74,350 in 2014, August 15, 2024.
• Daktronics, sixteen LED displays and nineteen million pixels for the centennial, August 20, 2024.
• WBRZ, the ribbon boards and the obstructed view in row 36, September 26, 2025.
• WAFB, the Board approves 2026 ticket and parking increases, October 24, 2025.
• CBS Sports, the governor questions the increase after the Texas A&M loss, October 2025.
• LSU Athletics, season-ticket costs to remain unchanged in 2026, December 5, 2025.
• LSU Athletics, 2026 football ticket information.
• LSU Athletics, 'Three-Year Funding Plan Proposed for LSU Athletics,' January 10, 2008.
• LSU Athletics, football schedule, with the flex kickoff windows.
• LSU Athletics, staff biography of Scott Woodward.
• LSU Athletics, Lora Hinton, 2021 Hall of Fame induction.
• LSU Athletics, 'Relive the End of the 2002 LSU-Kentucky Game.'
• LSU Athletics, 'Henderson Grabs LSU's Second ESPY Award,' 2003.
• University of Washington, Regents approve Mark Emmert's contract, April 13, 2004.
• University of Washington, Emmert picks Woodward as athletic director, September 17, 2008.
• Vanderbilt Athletics, 'Huey Long Invades Vanderbilt,' 2005.
• Library of Congress, Huey P. Long, Harris and Ewing, 1935 (no known restrictions).
• Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith, LSU Tiger Stadium, 2021 (no known restrictions).
• LSU Libraries Special Collections, Louisiana scandals scrapbook, 1939.
• LSU Libraries Special Collections, James Monroe Smith papers.
• Southeastern Louisiana University, Louisiana governors photograph collection.
• Marist College archives, 1939 newscast script on the arrest of LSU president James Monroe Smith.
• USC Scalar, 'LSU Historical Walking Tour: Tiger Stadium Dorms.'
• Canadian Conference of the Arts, Kevin Mulcahy lecture, 'Privatized Culture in Bad Times,' 2009.

The Reveille

• The author's column, January 14, 2008.
• Letters to the editor, September 8, 2006 (the author, Graduate School Senator).
• Letters to the editor, October 25, 2007.
• 'Fisher leaves legacy on Senate, LSU,' November 18, 2002.
• 'Emmert receives advance on bonus.'
• 'Hold that thought,' on the Emmert raise.
• Emmert's Washington package and the Pensacola loan, 2004.
• The Board approves the 2004 ticket policy, 2003.
• Board to discuss the Tradition Fund increase, January 2008.
• The Board approves the increase, January 17, 2008.
• Editorial on the 2008 plan and the 2006 student ticket increase.
• 'The stories behind 100 years of Tiger Stadium.'
• Student season tickets, $125, June 2025.
• The 2013 'Keep Neck clean' campaign.
• The history of 'Neck.'
• Act 472 and the Title IX office, 2021.
• Huey Long and the band.
• Huey Long, the circus, and the trains.

Contemporaneous reporting

• The Advocate: the 1934 Vanderbilt trip.
• The Advocate: Huey Long and the Tiger Band, 2017.
• The Advocate: Hinton and Williams blazed the trail.
• Tiger Rag: Mike Williams and Lora Hinton, fifty years later.
• WAFB: Lora Hinton reflects.
• Wisconsin campus history: the 1956 law and the cancelled game.
• Wisconsin Athletics: 1956, football game cancelled at Louisiana State.
• New Orleans Magazine: the Leche scandal, eighty years on.
• American Press, Jim Beam: Leche and the vow of poverty.
• American Press, Jim Beam: 'Kingfish U.'
• Rouses: the dorms at Death Valley.
• L'Observateur: the Saban hire, December 1999.
• LSU Athletics: LSU and Saban agree to terms on a new contract, February 18, 2004.
• WAFB: the Board approves the Tradition Fund increase, January 17, 2008.
• Inside Higher Ed: 'Time for a Sports Degree,' John V. Lombardi, 2014.
• Inside Higher Ed: the Knight Commission at 25, quoting Lombardi, 2016.
• Inside Higher Ed: LSU fires Lombardi, 2012.
• ESPN: Emmert and the Miami debacle, 2013.
• Indianapolis Business Journal: the botched Miami probe.
• Indianapolis Business Journal: Emmert's tenure, a timeline, 2022.
• CBS Sports: Emmert steps down, 2022.
• NPR: Emmert's legacy, 2022.
• PhillyVoice: the Penn State reversal, 2015.
• Sports Illustrated: the Husch Blackwell findings, March 5, 2021.
• NBC News: LSU suspends two administrators, March 2021.
• The Advocate: Ausberry said Davis recanted by phone, March 10, 2021.
• The Advocate: Orgeron on the report, March 9, 2021.
• Sports Illustrated: Gloria Scott's testimony, April 2021.
• WAFB: Orgeron declines to testify in person, April 2021.
• The Advocate: Orgeron and LSU to separate, October 17, 2021.
• ESPN: jury rejects the Sharon Lewis retaliation suit.
• ESPN: LSU settles the athletes' Title IX suit, April 2024.
• Fox News: Landry's anthem demand, April 2024.
• The Advocate: Landry takes the anthem critique to Fox News.
• WBRZ: a state representative becomes the voice of Tiger Stadium, August 2025.
• Sports Illustrated: Kelly sues, November 2025.
• Fox 8: the Kelly suit and the buyout.
• The Boston Globe: Kelly, Woodward, and the governor.
• Front Office Sports: LSU agrees to pay the full buyout, November 27, 2025.
• Sports Illustrated: the governor's press conference and Woodward's exit.
• Sports Illustrated: Woodward's legacy, hired by UW, fired by LSU.
• CBS Sports: two historic buyouts, one athletic director.
• Louisiana Illuminator: the leadership purge and the Ausberry suspension.
• Fox News via AP: 'This place is not broken.'
• Tiger Rag: the interim title removed after eight hours.
• WBRZ: the Board approves Ausberry's employment deal, April 2026.
• ESPN: the TRO against the SEC, August 2026.
• ESPN: Sankey 'prepared to contest.'
• ESPN: the SEC sues LSU, September 3, 2026.
• AP via CNN: the SEC suit.
• Front Office Sports: the SEC sues LSU and Kiffin over pro players.
• Front Office Sports: the Louisiana judge sides with the players, September 4, 2026.
• ESPN: the injunction, September 4, 2026.
• On3: the injunction, the August 19 order, nine hours of testimony.
• ESPN: who is affected and what happens now.
• Saturday Down South: the most credentialed game in Tiger Stadium history.
• The Advocate: 'Neck,' banned and back.
• 710 KEEL: the band did not play 'Neck' at the championship.
• 710 KEEL: the 2020 ticket increase.
• KPEL: 'Neck' in the video game.
• The Reveille: Tigers 9, Alabama 6, the Game of the Century, November 2011.
• AP via Fox News: LSU beats Alabama 9-6 in overtime, November 5, 2011.
• Yardbarker: Kiffin's debut and the credential mark.

Books

• Robert Mann, Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU (LSU Press, 2023).
• T. Harry Williams, Huey Long (Knopf, 1969).
• Walter Byers with Charles Hammer, Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes (University of Michigan Press, 1995).
• Taylor Branch, 'The Shame of College Sports,' The Atlantic, October 2011.
• John V. Lombardi, How Universities Work (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).
• Kevin V. Mulcahy, Public Culture, Cultural Identity, Cultural Policy: Comparative Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Images

• Huey P. Long, speaking, 1933 to 1935. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
• Louisiana State Capitol Building, 2012. Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
• Huey Long statue at the Capitol. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Bobby Jindal's official congressional portrait. Public domain.
• Tiger Stadium, the Commons category.
• Bobby Jindal, the Commons category, including FEMA photographs in the public domain.
• Harris and Ewing collection, Library of Congress, public domain.

Links go to the publishers' own sites. A few of the older Reveille and Advocate pages have moved behind bot screens or paywalls since the book was written; the citations stand on their own if a link goes dark.