The Advocate newspaper reports Saints first round pick Marcus Davenport will need surgery on this thumb, but should be back in time for training camp. Davenport will also hold off on getting the surgery until after this week’s minicamp, which is open to the public Tuesday through Thursday at the team’s training facility in Metairie.

LSU has received a verbal pledge from a cornerback out of Houston. Marcus Banks chose the Tigers during his visit to Baton Rouge this past weekend. He also has scholarship offers from Alabama, Texas A-and-M and Texas. He’s rated as the 37th best cornerback in the nation by 24-7 sports. Banks gives LSU two cornerbacks in its 2019 recruiting class. The other is four-star prospect Maurice Hampton from Memphis. LSU is also hoping to land the nation’s number one cornerback, Derek Stingley from Dunham High School in Baton Rouge. He’s will announce his college choice on June 20th.

College football insider Brett McMurphy reports we can see three more bowl games added to the schedule for the 2020 season. One in Chicago that would be played at historic Wrigley Field and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina looks like they are getting a bowl game too. Conference USA and the Sun Belt could be tie-ins for the bowl game at Myrtle Beach. The third bowl game destination has not been decided.

The Ragin Cajuns have agreed to a home-and-home series with Rice for 2022 and 2025. The two schools haven’t played each other in football since 1989. UL Lafayette will play in Houston in 2022, and the Owls return the trip in 2025.

Four college baseball teams have reserved their spot in the College World Series, four others can punch their ticket today. Oregon State, North Carolina, Washington and Mississippi State is in after a wild 10-6 victory over Vanderbilt in 11 innings last night.