LSU Baseball Coach Paul Mainieri is confident pitcher Zack Hess and outfielders and Zach Watson and Antoine Duplantis will return to the Tigers program, after they were drafted in the lower rounds. Mainieri is bullish on the 2019 season, because the Major League Baseball draft could not have gone better for the Tigers….
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Mainieri says the incoming recruiting class is also largely intact as he only expects a couple of his signees to decide on a professional career, instead of coming to college.

Super Regionals begin today. In Nashville, Mississippi State will face Vanderbilt at seven PM tonight.

Pelicans Head Coach Alvin Gentry has agreed to a two-year contract that keeps him in New Orleans through the 2020-2021 season. The Pels are coming off an appearance in the Western Conference semifinals. Locked on Pelicans Podcast Publisher Jake Madison says Gentry piloted the team through a rollercoaster season, starting with a first half that included a radically different roster.
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And the Pelicans went 20-8 in their final 28 games of the regular season, despite the season-ending injury to DeMarcus Cousins.

Conference USA announced a new multi-year deal with ESPN which will triple ESPN’s inventory of Conference USA events from the previous deal. ESPN-plus will televise five Bulldog games this fall including the season opener at South Alabama.