Welcome to the trendiest list in Louisiana sports: The NOLA.com | Times-Picayune Hot List of sports headliners for 2018.
This is our ranking of the movers, shakers and playmakers who'll be making major sports news in the year ahead.
For years, power and influence were the main criteria for our list of Louisiana’s top sports figures. But we tweaked the methodology a year ago to include Q Rating and newsworthiness.
If we've done our job, the Hot List will predict who will be trending in the world of sports in 2018. In order of increasing temperature, here are 25 men and women that we think you'll be reading and hearing a lot about in 2018.