South Carolina’s Dawn Staley is now the highest-paid coach in women’s basketball. The legendary coach earned the distinction on Friday when she signed a $25.25 million contract extension through the 2029-30 season.

ESPN’s “College GameDay” TV show will head to Columbia for the Gamecocks’ matchup with the Tigers on Jan. 23. The one-hour program will air at 7 p.m., preceding the conference rivalry between No. 5 LSU and No. 2 South Carolina.

Dawn Staley, head coach of the University of South Carolina’s women’s basketball team, has made history by signing the largest contract for a coach in women’s college basketball. On Friday, the university announced that its Board of Trustees had approved a contract extension that will keep Staley with the Gamecocks through the 2029-30 season.

The news of Kevin George's departure as head of LSU Lab School was announced Friday morning in a message to parents from George’s boss, Roland Mitchell, the dean of the LSU’s College of Human Sciences & Education.

Jaron Pierre Jr. and Marcellus Brigham Jr. each had 14 points in Jacksonville State's 63-61 win against Louisiana Tech on Thursday night.

Kennesaw State takes on the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs after Adrian Wooley scored 25 points in Kennesaw State's 75-69 overtime victory over the Sam Houston Bearkats.

Kennesaw State visits the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters after Prencis Harden scored 26 points in the Owls' 85-73 win over the Sam Houston Bearkats.

During his first administration, Trump commissioned the 1776 Project, a report that attempted to promote a more patriotic version of American history. It was panned by historians and scholars who said it credited Christianity for many of the positive turns in U.S. history without mentioning the religion’s role in perpetuating slavery, for example.

With the help of judicial appointees from Trump’s first term, courts have begun to bless the notion of more religion in the public sphere, including in schools.

CHIEF EXECUTIVES Appointments Tim Casper, executive vice president for student affairs at Madison College, has been named interim president after Jack E. Daniels III retired. David Wain Coon, former president of College of Marin, has been named acting president of San Jose City College.

LIU at CCSU, 1 p.m. Quinnipiac at Iona, 1 p.m. St. Francis (Pa.) at Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m. St. Peter's at Canisius, 1 p.m. Fairfield at Marist, 2 p.m. Manhattan at Merrimack, 2 p.m. Mercyhurst at Le Moyne, 2 p.m. Sacred Heart at Mount St. Mary's, 2 p.m.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A developing winter storm threatens to drop snow, sleet and freezing rain on parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas as frigid air that escaped the Arctic plunges temperatures to subfreezing levels in some of the southernmost points of the U.S.