More money for Ed

LSU Coach Ed Orgeron (above), who led the Tigers to the national championship this season, has agreed to a contract extension worth more than $7 million annually that runs through the 2026 season, the school announced Friday.

FOOTBALL Orgeron gets $42M contract

LSU Coach Ed Orgeron has agreed to a new contract extension worth more than $7 million annually and which runs through the 2026 season, the university announced on Friday. The new six-year agreement comes on the heels of the Tigers’ 15-0 national championship season that concluded earlier this month with a 42-25 victory over Clemson in the national title game in New Orleans. Contract language, which remains subject to approval by the board of supervisors, calls for a base salary of $6 million plus various performance-related bonuses. Orgeron, 58, was the consensus national coach of the year.

Hunt cited for marijuana in car

Cleveland Browns running back Kareem Hunt was cited for a traffic violation, and police say they found marijuana in his car. He was pulled over Tuesday afternoon in Rocky River, Ohio — on Cleveland’s west side — while driving on Interstate 90. An incident report said officers smelled marijuana in the car. Hunt, who was suspended eight games by the NFL last season for two physical altercations, was put in a police cruiser while his vehicle was searched. The report said police found a black backpack on the rear seat and “small amounts” of marijuana were found in three places. The marijuana was seized as evidence. Hunt was cited for speeding only and released. There was no drug charge and no indication of how fast he was driving.

Saints seek to shield emails

The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis. Attorneys for about two dozen men suing the church say in court filings that the 276 documents they obtained through discovery show that the NFL team, whose owner is devoutly Catholic, aided the Archdiocese of New Orleans in its “pattern and practice of concealing its crimes.” “Obviously, the Saints should not be in the business of assisting the Archdiocese, and the Saints’ public relations team is not in the business of managing the public relations of criminals engaged in pedophilia,” the attorneys wrote in a court filing. “The Saints realize that if the documents at issue are made public, this professional sports organization also will be smearing itself.” The Saints organization and its attorneys emphatically disputed any suggestion that the team helped the church cover up crimes.

Brown released on bail

NFL free agent Antonio Brown was released on bail Friday after a night in a Florida jail, where he turned himself in to face charges that he and his trainer attacked the driver of a moving truck that carried some of his possessions from California. Broward County Judge Corey Amanda Cawthon set a $110,000 bond and imposed conditions including surrendering his passport, wearing a GPS monitor, possessing no weapons or ammunition, and agreeing to a mental health evaluation and random drug testing. Brown, 31, was released a few hours after the hearing, his lawyer said.

BASKETBALL Kentucky freshman leaving

Kentucky freshman forward Kahlil Whitney said on his verified Twitter that his time at the school “has not gone as I had hoped” and that he will leave the No. 15 Wildcats. The 6-6, 210-pound Whitney averaged 3.3 points and 1.7 rebounds and started eight of Kentucky’s first 11 games. He hasn’t played more than 11 minutes during the past seven contests and recorded just three points and three rebounds in that stretch. Kentucky (14-4) visits No. 18 Texas Tech today in the Big 12/SEC Challenge.

Mavs trade for Cauley-Stein

Golden State Warriors have agreed to trade center Willie Cauley-Stein

to the Dallas Mavericks, league sources confirmed with Bay Area News Group. Dallas will send Utah’s 2020 second-round pick to the Warriors. Cauley-Stein, 26, signed a two-year $4.4 million deal with a player option for the second season with Golden State last summer. In 41 games (37 starts), Cauley-Stein averaged 7.9 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.2 blocks in 22.9 minutes per game.

Markkanen out 4-6 weeks

The Chicago Bulls expect forward Lauri Markkanen to miss four to six weeks because of an injured right hip. The Bulls said Friday the 7-footer from Finland had an MRI a day earlier. Markkanen is averaging 15 points and 6.5 rebounds. He had appeared in all 46 games, though he played through a sprained left ankle the past three weeks.

BASEBALL Keuchel apologizes

Dallas Keuchel has become the first member of the 2017 Houston Astros to offer a public apology for the team’s sign-stealing scheme during their run to the World Series championship. Speaking Friday at the fan convention for the Chicago White Sox, who signed the lefthander to a $55.5 million, three-year contract in December, Keuchel (Arkansas Razorbacks) said he felt what happened was blown out of proportion, but he was sorry. “I’m not going to go into specific detail, but during the course of the playoffs in ‘17, everybody was using multiple signs,” Keuchel said, “I mean, for factual purposes, when there’s nobody on base, when in the history of major league baseball has there been multiple signs? It’s just what the state of baseball was at that point and time. Was it against the rules? Yes it was, and I personally am sorry for what’s come about, the whole situation.” An investigation by Major League Baseball found the Astros used the video feed from a center field camera to see and decode the opposing catcher’s signs. Players banged on a trash can to signal to batters what was coming, believing it would improve the batter’s odds of getting a hit.

GOLF Palmer leads at 10 under

Ryan Palmer had a round as magnificent as the weather at Torrey Pines, making 11 birdies for a 10-under 62 on the North Course to build a two-shot lead over Brandt Snedeker in the Farmers Insurance Open. For others, it wasn’t all that pretty. Tiger Woods began with four putts from 25 feet and wound up with a 71 to be six shots back going into the weekend. Phil Mickelson missed the cut for the second consecutive week. Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, defending champion Justin Rose and U.S.

Open champion Gary Woodland also missed the cut. Palmer had no such problems. He was nearing a course record on the North until missing the fairway on the par-4 closing hole and making his only bogey of the round. Former University of Arkansas player Sebastian Cappelen, who was tied for first after the first day, is tied for third place after recording a 1-under 71. Austin Cook (Jonesboro, Razorbacks) shot a 3-under 69 but missed the cut with a two-day total of 1-over.

Sagstrom grabs LPGA lead

Madelene Sagstrom birdied seven of the first nine holes and shot a 10-under 62 on Friday to take the second-round lead in the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. Sagstrom birdied the first two holes, parred the next two and made five consecutive birdies to make the turn in 7-under 29. The 27-year-old Swede added birdies on Nos. 11, 12 and 16, bogeyed the par-3 17th and closed with a birdie on the par-4 18th for a 10-under 134 total. Carlota Ciganda of Spain shot a 66 and is one shot behind Sagstrom. After winning last week’s season-opening Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions, Gaby Lopez (Razorbacks) missed the cut. Stacy Lewis (Razorbacks) is tied for 19th. She is at 3-under 141 after shooting a 70 on Friday. Maria Fassi (Razorbacks) also missed the cut with a two-day total of 11-over.