South Carolina State

Columbia, SC

Columbus, OH

The SEC just got a lot stronger as of midnight on July 1st as Texas and Oklahoma entered the league, making the toughest league in the country even tougher. While no team will openly admit that they will never be able to compete in the SEC behind closed doors, one has to wonder if these conversations are taking place.

3 SEC Teams That Should Seriously Consider Leaving the Conference If They Ever Want to Win

Kentucky State

Lexington, KY

Kentucky Wildcats On SI

Kentucky basketball has a tough SEC schedule.

How many SEC games will the Kentucky Wildcats win in Mark Pope's first season?

Arkansas State

Fayetteville, AR

Athlon Sports

The SEC is not exempt from having head coaches with many expectations weighing on them in 2024. On3 Sports' Jesse Simonton ranked all the SEC head coaches in terms of pressure heading into the fall. Many coaches in the SEC will be under pressure to perform well. If things do not go well for these ...

SEC Head Coach Facing Extreme Pressure Heading Into 2024 Season

FanSided

Each spring the transfer portal gets larger and larger. This year more than 1000 players entered their names in the portal, most looking for a system to improve their game and many others just looking to continue a lifelong love of playing basketball. The portal has provided the SEC with...

SEC Basketball: Ranking the top 20 incoming transfers for the 2024-25 season

Tennessee State

Knoxville, TN

USA TODAY Sports Media Group

Tennessee and head coach Tony Vitello received a commitment to the Vols’ program on Tuesday.
Kennesaw State sophomore pitcher Tanner Franklin committed to Tennessee.
“Extremely blessed for this new opportunity,” Franklin announced. “Thank you Lord. Go Vols! Psalms 24:17”
The 6-foot-5, 240-pound Franklin (6-1) appeared in 34 games, including three starts, across the 2023-24 seasons at Kennesaw State. He recorded 61 strikeouts, a 6.34 ERA and five saves in 38.1 innings pitched.
Franklin went to Kennesaw State from Jefferson County High School in Dandridge, Tennessee.
Tennessee won the national championship and the Southeastern Conference regular-season and tournament titles in 2024.
2025 will be the eighth season for Tennessee under Vitello.
PHOTOS: Tennessee baseball celebrates 2024 national championship
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Tanner Franklin commits to Vols, returns to Tennessee

Baton Rouge, LA

On3.com

LSU freshman guard Jada Richard is excited for the start of her career at LSU and has taken the first steps this summer.

Ready to work, Jada Richard prepares for year one at LSU

Los Angeles, CA

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The Los Angeles Lakers struggled to find any traction in 2023. While there is no questioning the greatness of Anthony Davis and LeBron James, the rest of the roster never stepped up. This offseason, the Lakers are reportedly aggressively trying to add another star, but any championship roster is defined by the pieces around those stars. The Lakers re-signed one of those pieces today. Guard Max Christie is coming back to the team on a four-year deal.

Los Angeles Lakers Re-Sign Promising Young Guard To 4-Year Deal

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Louisiana State

LSU has already put together one of the nation’s strongest transfer classes, but it missed out on one of the top targets on its board Monday.
Zach Root, a left-hander from East Carolina and the top-ranked pitcher in the transfer portal, announced his commitment to Arkansas. Root was also considering LSU and another SEC foe in Auburn, though recent reports indicated that coach Jay Johnson’s team had fallen out of the race.
Many thought he was heading for the plains, but instead, he joins coach Dave Van Horn and a Razorbacks team coming off a second-straight disappointing regional exit in the NCAA Tournament.

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— Zach Root (@ZachRoot07) July 1, 2024

Root, who hails from Fort Myers, Florida, went 6-2 in 12 starts as a sophomore in 2024. He finished with a 3.95 ERA, striking out 76 batters while walking just 21.
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Top LSU pitching transfer target commits to SEC rival

FOX Sports

After opting out of his player option, LeBron James has re-signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on a two-year deal.

LeBron James reportedly re-signs with Lakers on 2-year max deal

Missouri State

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Clay County, MO

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Beery, Sr. starred in films from 1913 until he died in 1946. He had a long acting career including the silent film era. His brother who was three years younger, Wallace Beery, was also an actor and an Academy Award winner. His son, Noah Beery, Jr. was a well-known character actor from The Rockford Files.

Actor Noah Beery, Sr. was from Clay County, Missouri and his son was a regular in The Rockford Files

247Sports

Revisit the best year in the history of Tennessee Athletics during the annual 24-hour SEC Network Takeover on Friday. It’s takeover time on the SEC Network this month, and Tennessee’s turn is coming up on Friday starting at midnight. As the league’s network does annually every summer, each school gets a full 24 hours to pick and choose a customized set of programming highlighting some of its best games and most memorable moments from the most recent athletic year – and the Vols and Lady Vols are coming off the best one in their history. Tennessee finished a best-ever third in the final Directors Cup standings and took home a third straight SEC All-Sports Title, and the SEC Network Takeover will allow fans a chance to relive those successes, from the baseball national championship to the Citrus Bowl and men’s basketball SEC title.

What to watch: The SEC Network’s Tennessee Takeover

It’s the slowest time of the summer and that means the annual SEC Network takeover for all 16 (gross) SEC schools is underway. If this is somehow your first SEC Network takeover, PodKatt laid it out what to expect almost seven years ago. As has become an annual tradition,...

LSU’s SEC Network Takeover Begins Tuesday night

Gainesville, FL

Billy Napier has faced challenges during his time as the head coach of the Florida Gators. During his two seasons at Florida, he has yet to achieve a winning season, leading many to believe that this could be his final year in Gainesville, Fla. According to SEC Network's Paul Finebaum, the outcome ...

Paul Finebaum Reveals If One SEC Coach Can Save His Job In 2024

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The Florida Gators finished strong in 2024 despite an early exit from the NCAA Tournament.

Gators Men’s Basketball Still within ESPN’s Way-too-Early Top-25

After first announcing his commitment to Texas in December of 2023, elite class of 2025 defensive lineman Brandon Brown is now trending to eventually flip his pledge to the Tigers of LSU football. LSU football predicted to land flip commitment from new SEC foe Texas. Most recently landing a commitment...

Recruiting expert predicts LSU to land flip commitment over SEC foe

Wyoming State

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WyoFile has acquired a photograph of a lynx in Wyoming, a landmark observation of a species currently considered absent from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Star Valley resident Jason Reinhardt, an avid houndsman , came across the animal while mountain lion hunting the southern Gros Ventre Range in February 2022. There was no doubt in his mind what it was: a tom lynx, judging by its blocky head.

Rare wildcat documented in the Yellowstone region for first time in a decade

According to Shakey's website, this pizza parlor is only in California, North Carolina, and Washington state in the U.S. now. This was my family's go-to pizza joint when my father was stationed with the Air Force outside of Omaha, Nebraska. We liked it so much, that when we were transferred again, it was hopeful we'd find another one.

Shakey's Pizza Parlor and nostalgia: the first franchised pizza restaurant also landed in Missouri

Tuscaloosa, AL

Auburn, AL

The Spun

With fresh blood arriving in the SEC, CBS' Will Backus believes the Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn has now been dethroned as the conference's top rivalry. In his recent football rivalry rankings, Backus argued that Texas and Oklahoma bringing the Red River Showdown to SEC Country makes it the ...

CBS Says The Iron Bowl Is Now SEC's Second-Best Rivalry Game

West Columbia, SC

Cayce, SC

Hopkins, SC

Lexington, SC

Irmo, SC

Gaston, SC

Blythewood, SC

Elgin, SC

Swansea, SC

Gadsden, SC

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Lamont Paris looking to mold South Carolina into another SEC contender and NCAA Tournament team

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The best part of South Carolina men's basketball coach Lamont Paris' rise from forgotten in the SEC to the school's first NCAA...

Lamont Paris looking to mold South Carolina into another SEC contender and NCAA Tournament team

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