Dunn deal? LSU has tentative plans to hold a press conference Friday to announce the hiring of a new assistant baseball coach, reports Louisiana Gannett News. Alan Dunn, a minor league pitching coordinator for the Baltimore Orioles, is meeting today with Tiger coach Paul Mainieri to discuss the job. Dunn was a pitcher at the University of Alabama in the early 1980s and an assistant coach at Vanderbilt in the early 1990s. He spent 14 years in the Chicago Cubs organization, and Mainieri and Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry are longtime friends. Read the story here.
Not interested in Canada: Terrelle Pryor isn’t interested in playing in the Canadian Football League. He’s also not interested in speaking to the NCAA. The former Ohio State quarterback announced Tuesday he would not return to Ohio State for his senior season in the wake of an NCAA suspension and ongoing investigation. The Saskatchewan Roughriders own the CFL negotiating rights to Pryor and had extended him a tentative offer. “They sent the package last night, I forwarded it to Terrelle, and Terrelle said that he wasn’t interested today,” says Pryor’s attorney, Larry James. James says Pryor will no longer cooperate with NCAA investigators looking into Ohio State’s football program, ex-players and current players. “He doesn’t need a reason (to talk to them). He’s no longer a student-athlete,” says James. Pryor is looking at entering the NFL supplemental draft, which will be held later this summer.
D-League star: Former LSU basketball standout Randy Livingston, whose career was hampered by severe knee injuries, has made a name for himself with the Boise (Idaho) Stampede of the NBA Developmental League. Livingston led the Stampede to a D-League title in 2008 and now he’s coaching the team. Along the way, Livingston earned a bachelor’s in business communications, thanks to a partnership between the NBADL and the University of Phoenix. “I’ve enjoyed a heck of a journey, even with the knee injuries,” Livingston told The Times-Picayune. “I still played 11-plus years of professional basketball. I did the best that I could; I really enjoyed playing.” Read the profile here.
