Les Miles is out as the head football coach at Kansas after allegations of inappropriate behavior with female student workers while he was the head coach at LSU. In a statement, Miles said it’s a difficult day for him and his family. The 67-year-old was 3-and-18 in two seasons at Kansas and the team failed to win a game in 2020. Tulane’s Willie Fritz and Louisiana Tech’s Skip Holtz are possible candidates to replace Miles.

Meanwhile, in Baton Rouge, a student-led organization performed a sit-in in the driveway of the LSU Football Operations Center yesterday as the students called for the firing of athletic administrators Verge Ausberry and Miriam Segar after an extensive report showed how LSU mishandled sexual misconduct cases….
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LSU interim president Thomas Galligan says there are no plans to change the disciplinary decisions.

LSU baseball has dropped from eighth to 20th in the latest USA Today Coaches Poll after the Tigers dropped a weekend series to Oral Roberts. LSU Coach Paul Mainieri says he’s looking for more consistency from his bullpen. He says Blake Money has looked good and so have a couple of the other new relievers…
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The Tigers host Texas Southern tonight. Also tonight, La Tech hosts ULM. Southern visits Tulane and Grambling is at fourth-ranked Mississippi State.

In basketball, the Southland begins its conference tournament today as Southeastern Louisiana faces McNeese. Nicholls Austin Claunch has been named the Southland Coach of the Year while Ty Gordon has been named newcomer of the year.

The U-L Lafayette women’s basketball team lost in the Sun Belt Tournament Championship. They’ll have to wait until next Monday to see if they are in the NCAA Tournament.