The LSU Board of Supervisors will vote tomorrow on a contract extension and raise for head football coach Ed Orgeron. The proposed deal would extend Orgeron for another two years, through the 2023 season and he’ll get a 14-percent increase in pay, boosting his salary to four-million dollars a year. Tiger Rag Editor James Moran says the contract seems justified…
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Orgeron is 25-9 since taking over as the interim coach during the 2016 season.

Former Saints center Max Unger says he decided to retire from football, because he didn’t think he could put his 32-year-old body through another season. Unger says injury issues to his lower body was making it difficult for him to get even in his stance.

The Pelicans ended a six-game losing streak last night with a 129 to 125 overtime win over Dallas. New Orleans point guard Elfrid Payton joined a short list of NBA greats with his fifth straight triple-double. Payton had 19 points, 11 assists, and 10 rebounds. The only other players to have five straight triple-doubles, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook.

LSU basketball finishes the regular season ranked 12th in the A-P poll, which is there highest finish since 2000. The 26-and-6 Tigers face Yale on Thursday in the NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs only have one NCAA Tournament win and that happened in 2016, when they upset Baylor in the first round.

Southern is the only Louisiana school in the women’s basketball tournament. The 16th seeded Lady Jaguars will battle top seeded Mississippi State on Friday in Starkville.

After sweeping Kentucky, LSU baseball is up to 7th in the latest Collegiate Baseball Poll. The Tigers host Nicholls tomorrow night.