A Connecticut TV station is reporting that the father of former LSU basketball star Tremont Waters was found dead in a Super Eight motel in West Haven, Connecticut. Police found 49-year-old Ed Waters unresponsive at around 12:04 in the afternoon on Thursday. Tremont Waters was recently drafted in the second round by the Boston Celtics and played for the Celtics summer league team yesterday, scoring eight points and dishing out nine assists.

The Pelicans next Summer League game is Saturday at 5:30 central time when they take on Miami in the quarterfinals. New Orleans is a four-seed.

Former McNeese head basketball coach Dave Simmons is returning to Natchitoches as an assistant coach for Northwestern State. Simmons was an assistant for seven seasons under Mike McConathy before he took the head coaching job at McNeese and lasted at McNeese for 12 seasons.

Nicholls landed 11 players on the preseason All-Southland Conference team, including quarterback Chase Fourcade.

Saints rookie defensive end Carl Granderson was sentenced to six months in jail after a judge in Casper, Wyoming rejected a plea agreement in an alleged sexual assault case. Granderson’s attorney and prosecutors agreed that the 22-year-old should receive one year of unsupervised probation and a mental health evaluation. But a district judge said no. Two Wyoming University female students claim Granderson sexually touched them while they slept at his apartment.

Former LSU pitcher Jared Poche has decided to retire from professional baseball. Poche left LSU as the school’s all-time winningest pitcher with 39 victories. The former Lutcher star was having a rough season with the Oakland A’s minor league team in Stockton, California, 0-6 with an 8.53 ERA. In a social media post, Poche said it was an absolute pleasure to play the game as long as he did in front of the greatest fans in the game.

The second half of the Major League Baseball season got underway last night with the Rangers blanking the Astros five-zip.