Maryland football coach Mike Locksley agreed to a contract amendment that will increase his salary to an average of $6.1 million a year over the duration of his five-year deal, sources tell Sports Illustrated.
Locksley had been earning $4 million in salary after signing a new contract last spring.
The new contract starts at $5.5 million in salary and increases $300,000 each year. The deal runs through the 2027 season but will be extended by a year if the Terps win at least seven games this season.
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Charles Leclerc notches his third-straight pole position in Azerbaijan
The field is set for Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
And for the first time this season, Red Bull is not on pole.
Charles Leclerc snatched pole position from the Red Bull duo of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, giving Ferrari something to smile about after a difficult start to their 2023 campaign.
Please don’t feed Shaq lasagna.
Hello. How are you today? Well, I hope. So anyway, on Wednesday night Shaq ripped a massive lasagna fart that was so heinous he had to start airing out the Inside the NBA studio with his own show notes.
Shaq halftime TNT Lasagna report, with some extra smell and story. pic.twitter.com/tN2fsUElpL
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Ernie: American Express halftime report from Studio J here in Atlanta.
SEC athletic directors meet next week in what could be another step toward resolving the league’s future scheduling format, though a final decision isn’t expected for another month.
The in-person meeting comes about four weeks before conference athletic administrators and presidents gather in Destin, Fla., for their annual spring meetings, at which point commissioner Greg Sankey is hopeful a decision will be made.
“We need to make a decision, I would hope by Destin,” Sankey said Thursday from CFP meetings in suburban Dallas. “Eventually, we have to vote.
SBNation’s Mark Schofield chatted with Lando Norris about the Baku City Circuit, McLaren’s slow start, and a Fiat Jolly
Confidence is a hard trait to gauge, especially when the attempt is made over a video conference and with less than 30 minutes at your disposal.
But Lando Norris is an incredibly confident person.
Even over a screen, even across the globe, even over just a few minutes, Norris’ confidence leaps out at you.
Cowboys pass rusher Micah Parsons jumped from his seat and gave a hearty fist pump after Dallas announced the pick of Michigan defensive tackle Mazi Smith with the No. 26 pick in the draft on Thursday night.
Smith, who was the key cog to Michigan’s interior defensive line and earned first-team All-Big Ten honors a year ago, is sure to quickly upgrade the Cowboys defensive line.
“Dan [Quinn] knew! Look at the text man. I told you, I told you Dan wouldn’t let me down!” Parsons exclaimed on Bleacher Report‘s live draft show.
Former Kentucky quarterback Will Levis had a nightmare of a night at the 2023 NFL draft, as he sat in the green room all evening and never heard his name get called by Roger Goodell during the first round.
Levis, who was rumored to be a high pick just days before the event, is now one of the best players available on the second day of the draft, which starts Friday night at 7 p.m. ET.
In case you didn’t know, Levis shared a pretty gross morning ritual of his before the draft—he likes to put mayonnaise in his coffee. For real.
One of the questions entering the draft for the Cardinals was whether or not the team would move veteran wideout DeAndre Hopkins.
There have been plenty of rumors swirling surrounding the wide receiver and whether or not he would be traded elsewhere. Despite this, Hopkins wasn’t moved on Day 1 of the draft, and the expectation in Arizona is that he may not be moved at all.
“I don’t foresee that happening,” Cardinals general manager Monti Ossenfort said on Thursday night. “I don’t know what is going to happen here in the next couple days.
Entering Thursday night’s NFL draft, conventional wisdom was that all four of the top quarterback prospects—Alabama’s Bryce Young, Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud, Florida’s Anthony Richardson and Kentucky’s Will Levis—would be selected relatively early. That was true for three of the four, with Young, Stroud and Richardson going as three of the top four picks to the Panthers, Texans and Colts, respectively.
Unfortunately for Levis, as it turned out there were only three teams that were clearly in the quarterback market at the top of the draft.
Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. For the ninth consecutive year, I was not selected in the first round of the NFL draft.
In today’s SI:AM:
👏 Last night’s biggest winners
📝 Grading every first-round pick
🔮 Projecting the next two rounds
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The NFL draft is always unpredictable
As expected, the Panthers took Bryce Young with the first pick of last night’s NFL draft. After that, things got a little wacky.