Oklahoma and Lincoln Riley agreed to a contract extension, which should quell speculation about the second-year coach being lured away by an NFL team.
Oklahoma announced that contract terms were being finalized and would be subject to approval by the board of regents late this month.
... A prosecutor says LSU football players Hillar Moore and Clyde Edwards-Helaire appear to have responded with justifiable force when they fatally shot an 18-year-old man who was allegedly trying to rob them at gunpoint.
... Stanford tight end Kaden Smith and North Carolina State wide receiver Jakobi Meyers will skip their final seasons of college to enter the NFL draft. Smith had 47 catches for 635 yards and two touchdowns this season for the Cardinal. He missed the final three games because of a foot injury. Meyers set a single-season school receptions record with 92 catches for 1,047 yards this year.
... Miami linebacker Shaquille Quarterman will return for his final season of eligibility.
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Rules limiting Toliver's assistant coaching pay
After nine years in the WNBA, Washington Mystics star Kristi Toliver is setting up her next career. She became the first active WNBA player to serve as an NBA assistant, taking a job with the Washington Wizards.
But, according to the New York Times, Toliver is making just $10,000 with the Wizards— well below what NBA assistants normally make, which can range from $100,000 to more than $1 million, depending on the experience of the coach.
Toliver's low pay is the result of the Wizards and Mystics' ownership structure. Because Ted Leonsis owns both teams, the WNBA determined that Toliver's pay as an NBA assistant had to come out of the $50,000 total each WNBA team allocates to pay their players for offseason work.