The LSU Board of Supervisors is expected tomorrow to approve a two-year contract extension and a 14-percent increase in pay for Coach Ed Orgeron. Tiger Rag Editor James Moran says Orgeron’s annual salary will climb to four-million dollars…
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Orgeron’s buyout at the start of the deal would also be 10-million dollars.

Max Unger says he didn’t think he could make it through another season, which is why the longtime center for the Saints decided to retire, even though he was set to make five million dollars next season. Unger says a lower body injury has made it difficult for him to get into his stance and surgery would mean he would miss the entire offseason, which Unger didn’t want to do.

Pelicans point guard Elfird Payton recorded his fifth consecutive triple-double last night in an overtime win over Dallas. Only four other players have had five straight triple-doubles, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook. New Orleans is at Orlando on Wednesday.

The Sun Belt Conference’s new commissioner is the first african-american commissioner for an FBS conference. Keith Gill will take over for the retiring Karl Benson, who will officially leave the office on May 1st. Gill is currently the executive associate commissioner for the Atlantic 10.

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.