BATON ROUGE — She's been a part of two NCAA Final Fours, one Southeastern Conference Championship and 99 victories during her LSU career. On Sunday, she will go for win No. 100 in her final home game as Allison Hightower and the 20th-ranked LSU women's basketball team seeks to improve its SEC Tournament seeding in the regular season finale against Mississippi State on Senior Day at 2 p.m. CST in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
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Florida coach Urban Meyer and wife Shelley flew safely into Atlanta early Sunday morning after a Tsunami scare in Hawaii caused them to evacuate their hotel, Shelley told the Sentinel in a text message.

Meyer and his wife were on vacation in Hawaii this week and successfully flew out late Saturday. A major earthquake in Chile caused a rippling effect in the Pacific that placed Hawaii on emergency alert.

“Just landed in atl! Got evacuated to higher ground early yesterday,” Shelley said. “Turned out to be a dud Tsunami. Thank goodness.”

Meyer can’t seem to avoid stress after his job as Gators coach called him to take a leave of absence. Meyer has been taking vacations recently to make up for lost time before spring practice starts March 17. He also visited his daughter, Nicki, a Georgia Tech student, in Atlanta in mid February.

Meyer has said he expects to return for spring practices.

At least Meyer returns to Gainesville with a nice bonus from the University of Florida. Under Meyer’s most current contract extension on file that he signed in 2007, the school must pay him a $500,000 retention bonus by Feb. 28, 2010.

Meyer received a six-year, $24-million extension over the summer, but Meyer has yet to sign that deal and is operating under his old contract worth $3.25 million per year. Meyer still gets paid the $4 million per year, even without a contract.

Vanderbilt Coach Kevin Stallings never had won in Bud Walton Arena before the 16th-ranked Commodores beat Arkansas 89-72 on Saturday.
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John Calipari heaped praise on Tennessee. He also came away feeling not so bad about his own team Saturday afternoon.
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Kentucky didn’t want Scotty Hopson when he was coming out of high school, but Hopson wanted the Wildcats on Saturday afternoon.
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Matt Melson can be considered an expert on the caliber of baseball played in the 7A-West Conference.

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I’m not giving up any big trade secret here, but covering sports at most newspapers is viewed by some news types as more fun and less impactful than the “more important” issues in the news section.

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Not long ago, Fayetteville coach Vance Arnold walked through his indoor baseball facility, amazed at what he saw in each batting cage.

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The Springdale Har-Ber baseball team hasn’t tiptoed around setting high aspirations for this season.

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Nikki Pinto might not be the champion pistol shooter she is today if not for an off-the-cuff question from her father.