Louisiana Radio Network Sports I’m Michelle Southern with a special sports report from Jeff Palermo:
CUT 20 (55) “NCAA Tournament”
That’s Jeff Palermo reporting on the Louisiana Radio Network.
LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson, who is taking home the National Baseball Coach of the Year Award, has received a 100-thousand-dollar bonus for leading the Tigers to a national championship. His salary this season is 1.25 million dollars and has picked up 260-thousand dollars in bonuses. At the celebration yesterday Johnson also received a key to the City of Baton Rouge.
The SEC announced Home and Away conference opponents for women’s basketball teams and the national champion Lady Tigers will welcome South Carolina to the PMAC next season. A date has not been set, but it will be a matchup between the last two national champion teams in women’s basketball.
Also, it was announced Wednesday that the Lady Tigers will host Virginia Tech in the SEC/ACC Challenge on November 30th and the men will travel to Syracuse on November 28th.
New Saints quarterback Derek Carr opened up about how his departure from the Raiders went, which included his being benched the final two games before leaving in free agency. Carr was speaking at a DC4Kids event in Fresno, where he starred in college at Fresno State.