Roundup: River Center / Oil drilling / Academy Awards

Distinction: The Raising Cane’s River Center has been named to Pollstar’s Top 200 Arenas Worldwide, as featured in Pollstar’s 2025 Year End Report, ranked by ticket sales. Notably, the ticket sales reflected in the ranking do not include home games for the River Center’s tenant hockey team, the Baton Rouge Zydeco, whose attendance would further elevate the venue’s overall ticket sales totals. Fiscal pressure: A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for stat ...