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3/1/2022 9:00:00 AM

NEW ORLEANS — The Sun Belt Conference announced its 2022 football schedule Tuesday, including its four new members James Madison, Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss. 
 
The 22nd season of Sun Belt football will feature 56 league games. Each Sun Belt program will play eight conference games—six against divisional opponents and two against opponents from the opposite division. 
 
The Sun Belt East Division will include App State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison, Marshall, and Old Dominion. The Sun Belt West Division will consist of Arkansas State, Louisiana, ULM, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Texas State, and Troy. 

     

 

“The Sun Belt Conference—with our successful football programs and the passionate fanbases of our 14 members—is now stronger and much better positioned than it has ever been,” said Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Keith Gill. “The compelling matchups of our regional rivalries, our already strong foundation, and the addition of four schools will make the 2022 football season one of the most anticipated in the history of the Sun Belt.” 

 

Each of the Sun Belt’s four representatives in Bowl Season from a year ago—App State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, and Louisiana—will be featured prominently in the midweek portion of the conference’s schedule, with each appearing in at least two midweek games. 

 

Thursday, Sept. 22 – Coastal Carolina at Georgia State

Wednesday, Oct. 12 – Louisiana at Marshall

Wednesday, Oct. 19 – Georgia State at App State

Thursday, Oct. 20 – Troy at South Alabama

Thursday, Oct. 27 – Louisiana at Southern Miss

Thursday, Nov. 3 – App State at Coastal Carolina

Thursday, Nov. 10 – Georgia Southern at Louisiana

 

Kickoff times and networks for all midweek games and weekend games in the first three weeks of the season will be selected in early June. All other games will fall into the traditional 12-day selection process. 

 

TEAM-BY-TEAM SCHEDULES

SUN BELT EAST DIVISION

 

APP STATE

9/3      UNC

9/10    at Texas A&M

9/17    Troy*

9/24    James Madison*

10/1    The Citadel

10/8    at Texas State*

10/19  Georgia State*

10/29  Robert Morris

11/3    at Coastal Carolina*

11/12  at Marshall*

11/19  Old Dominion*

11/26  at Georgia Southern*

 

COASTAL CAROLINA

9/3      Army

9/10    Gardner-Webb

9/17    Buffalo

9/22    at Georgia State*

10/1    Georgia Southern*

10/8    at ULM*

10/15  Old Dominion*

10/29  at Marshall*

11/3    App State*

11/12  Southern Miss*

11/19  at Virginia

11/26  at James Madison*

 

GEORGIA SOUTHERN

9/3      Morgan State

9/10    at Nebraska

9/17    at UAB

9/24    Ball State

10/1    at Coastal Carolina*

10/8    at Georgia State*

10/15  James Madison*

10/22  at Old Dominion*

11/5    South Alabama*

11/10  at Louisiana*

11/19  Marshall*

11/26  App State*

 

GEORGIA STATE

9/3      at South Carolina

9/10    UNC

9/17    Charlotte

9/22    Coastal Carolina*

10/1    at Army

10/8    Georgia Southern*

10/19  at App State*

10/29  Old Dominion*

11/5    at Southern Miss*

11/12  ULM*

11/19  at James Madison*

11/26  at Marshall*

 

JAMES MADISON

9/3      Middle Tennessee

9/10    Norfolk State

9/24    at App State*

10/1    Texas State*

10/8    at Arkansas State*

10/15  at Georgia Southern*

10/22  Marshall*

11/5    at Louisville

11/12  at Old Dominion*

11/19  Georgia State*

11/26  Coastal Carolina*

 

MARSHALL

9/3      Norfolk State

9/10    at Notre Dame

9/17    at Bowling Green

9/24    at Troy*

10/1    Gardner-Webb

10/12  Louisiana*

10/22  at James Madison*

10/29  Coastal Carolina*

11/5    at Old Dominion*

11/12  App State*

11/19  at Georgia Southern*

11/26  Georgia State*

 

OLD DOMINION

9/2      Virginia Tech

9/10    at East Carolina

9/17    at Virginia

9/24    Arkansas State*

10/1    Liberty

10/15  at Coastal Carolina*

10/22  Georgia Southern*

10/29  at Georgia State*

11/5    Marshall*

11/12  James Madison*

11/19  at App State*

11/26  at South Alabama*

 

SUN BELT WEST DIVISION

 

ARKANSAS STATE

9/3      Grambling State

9/10    at Ohio State

9/17    at Memphis

9/24    at Old Dominion*

10/1    ULM*

10/8    James Madison*

10/15  at Southern Miss*

10/22  at Louisiana*

10/29  South Alabama*

11/12  UMass

11/19  at Texas State*

11/26  Troy*

 

LOUISIANA

9/3      Southeastern Louisiana

9/10    Eastern Michigan

9/17    at Rice

9/24    at ULM*

10/1    South Alabama*

10/12  at Marshall*

10/22  Arkansas State*

10/27  at Southern Miss*

11/5    Troy*

11/10  Georgia Southern*

11/19  at Florida State

11/26  at Texas State*

ULM

9/3      at Texas

9/10    Nicholls State

9/17    at Alabama

9/24    Louisiana*

10/1    at Arkansas State*

10/8    Coastal Carolina*

10/15  at South Alabama*

10/22  at Army

11/5    Texas State*

11/12  at Georgia State*

11/19  at Troy*

11/26  Southern Miss*

 

SOUTH ALABAMA

9/3      Nicholls State

9/10    at Central Michigan

9/17    at UCLA

9/24    Louisiana Tech

10/1    at Louisiana*

10/15  ULM*

10/20  Troy*

10/29  at Arkansas State*

11/5    at Georgia Southern*

11/12  Texas State*

11/19  at Southern Miss*

11/26  Old Dominion*

SOUTHERN MISS

9/3      Liberty

9/10    at Miami

9/17    Northwestern State

9/24    at Tulane

10/8    at Troy*

10/15  Arkansas State*

10/22  at Texas State*

10/27  Louisiana*

11/5    Georgia State*

11/12  at Coastal Carolina*

11/19  South Alabama*

11/26  at ULM*

 

TEXAS STATE

9/3      at Nevada

9/9      FIU

9/17    at Baylor

9/24    Houston Baptist

10/1    at James Madison*

10/8    App State*

10/15  at Troy*

10/22  Southern Miss*

11/5    at ULM*

11/12  at South Alabama*

11/19  Arkansas State*

11/26  Louisiana*

TROY

9/3      at Ole Miss

9/10    Alabama A&M

9/17    at App State*

9/24    Marshall*

10/1    at Western Kentucky

10/8    Southern Miss*

10/15  Texas State*

10/20  at South Alabama*

11/5    at Louisiana*

11/12  Army

11/19  ULM*

11/26  at Arkansas State*

 

* Sun Belt Conference Game 

 

OVERALL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, September 2 

Virginia Tech at Old Dominion

 

Saturday, September 3

UNC at App State

Army at Coastal Carolina

Morgan State at Georgia Southern

Georgia State at South Carolina

Middle Tennessee at James Madison

Norfolk State at Marshall

Grambling State at Arkansas State

Southeastern Louisiana at Louisiana

ULM at Texas

Nicholls State at South Alabama

Liberty at Southern Miss

Texas State at Nevada

Troy at Ole Miss

 

Friday, Sept. 9

FIU at Texas State

 

Saturday, Sept. 10

App State at Texas A&M

Gardner-Webb at Coastal Carolina

Georgia Southern at Nebraska

UNC at Georgia State

Norfolk State at James Madison

Marshall at Notre Dame

Old Dominion at East Carolina

Arkansas State at Ohio State

Eastern Michigan at Louisiana

Nicholls State at ULM

South Alabama at Central Michigan

Southern Miss at Miami

Alabama A&M at Troy

 

Saturday, Sept. 17

Troy at App State*

Buffalo at Coastal Carolina

Georgia Southern at UAB

Charlotte at Georgia State

Marshall at Bowling Green

Old Dominion at Virginia

Arkansas State at Memphis

Louisiana at Rice

ULM at Alabama

South Alabama at UCLA

Northwestern State at Southern Miss

Texas State at Baylor

 

Thursday, Sept. 22

Coastal Carolina at Georgia State*

 

Saturday, Sept. 24

James Madison at App State*

Ball State at Georgia Southern

Arkansas State at Old Dominion*

Louisiana at ULM*

Louisiana Tech at South Alabama

Southern Miss at Tulane

Houston Baptist at Texas State

Marshall at Troy*

 

Saturday, Oct. 1 

The Citadel at App State

Georgia Southern at Coastal Carolina*

Georgia State at Army

Texas State at James Madison*

Gardner-Webb at Marshall

Liberty at Old Dominion

ULM at Arkansas State*

South Alabama at Louisiana*

Troy at Western Kentucky

 

Saturday, Oct. 8 

Georgia Southern at Georgia State*

James Madison at Arkansas State*

Coastal Carolina at ULM*

App State at Texas State*

Southern Miss at Troy*

 

Wednesday, Oct. 12 

Louisiana at Marshall

 

Saturday, Oct. 15

Old Dominion at Coastal Carolina*

James Madison at Georgia Southern*

ULM at South Alabama*

Arkansas State at Southern Miss*

Texas State at Troy*

Wednesday, Oct. 19

Georgia State at App State

 

Thursday, Oct. 20 

Troy at South Alabama*

 

Saturday, Oct. 22

Marshall at James Madison*

Georgia Southern at Old Dominion*

Arkansas State at Louisiana*

ULM at Army

Southern Miss at Texas State*

 

Thursday, Oct. 27

Louisiana at Southern Miss*

 

Saturday, Oct. 29

Robert Morris at App State

Old Dominion at Georgia State*

Coastal Carolina at Marshall*

South Alabama at Arkansas State*

 

Thursday, Nov. 3

App State at Coastal Carolina*

Saturday, Nov. 5

South Alabama at Georgia Southern*

James Madison at Louisville

Marshall at Old Dominion*

Troy at Louisiana*

Texas State at ULM*

Georgia State at Southern Miss*

 

Thursday, Nov. 10 

Georgia Southern at Louisiana*

 

Saturday, Nov. 12 

Southern Miss at Coastal Carolina*

ULM at Georgia State*

App State at Marshall*

James Madison at Old Dominion*

UMass at Arkansas State

Texas State at South Alabama*

Army at Troy

 

Saturday, Nov. 19 

Old Dominion at App State*

Coastal Carolina at Virginia

Marshall at Georgia Southern*

Georgia State at James Madison*

Louisiana at Florida State

South Alabama at Southern Miss*

Arkansas State at Texas State*

ULM at Troy*

 

Saturday, Nov. 26

App State at Georgia Southern*

Coastal Carolina at James Madison*

Georgia State at Marshall*

Troy at Arkansas State*

Southern Miss at ULM*

Old Dominion at South Alabama*

Louisiana at Texas State*

 

Saturday, Dec. 3 

Sun Belt Football Championship Game

 

* Sun Belt Conference Game 

The Lakers at least drew the line when it came to games worthy of trembling.

The team was interrupted by DeAndre Jordan one day after the center went viral for Hail Mary’s pass, which he made in the third quarter of Sunday’s 123-95 loss to the Pelicans.

Although the pass certainly could not help, the motivation for cutting Jordan off was based on the vacancy for the signing of veteran, free agent DJ Augustin, according to numerous reports.

Jordan – who joined the Lakers as a free agency last summer after two seasons with the Nets – recorded two points, three rebounds and one block in the second consecutive loss to LA, in which LeBron James and Trevor Arisa quarreled with their own fans.

The 33-year-old big man may not be out of work for long.

On Monday, ESPN reported that 76ers are looking at Jordan and hope to acquire the center as a waiver or sign it as a free agent.

Jordan could fill the minutes left by Andre Drummond – who was sent to Brooklyn as part of the blockbuster that sent former Nets guard James Harden to Philadelphia for former Sixer Ben Simmons last month.

Jordan has played in 32 games for LA with 19 starts this season. He averaged 4.1 points and 5.4 rebounds in 12.8 minutes per game.

Augustine last played for the Rockets and was canceled by the team on February 10. The 34-year-old averaged 5.4 points and 2.2 assists in 15 minutes per game in 32 games played in Houston.

Augustine, the ninth pick in the NBA Draft in 2008, competed with Charlotte Bobcats, Pacers, Raptors, Bulls, Pistons, Thunder, Nuggets, Magic and Bucks.

The struggling Lakers seem to be trying to make moves after remaining silent before the trading deadline.

According to The Athletic, The Lakers plan to sign a two-way contract with free agent Wenien Gabriel. The 6-foot-9 striker, who turns 25 this month, has been with the Kings, Blazers, Pelicans, Nets and Clippers. The Kentucky product remained unprepared in 2018.

Between the limitations of COVID at the beginning of the season, the continuing injuries and the new construction of the list, which failed to establish itself, the Lakers are struggling to reach the postseason.

The Lakers 27-33 are currently ninth in the Western Conference with 22 games left from the regular season. The James-led team has 2.5 games ahead of the Pelicans and Blazers for last place in the tournament.

Kane Velázquez has been arrested and charged with attempted murder following an alleged shooting incident that occurred Monday afternoon in San Jose, California, according to an official statement from the San Jose Police Department’s media relations team on Tuesday morning.

The statement reads as follows:

Kane Velázquez was the suspect arrested yesterday in connection with the incident. He was sentenced in Santa Clara County Jail for attempted murder.

The motives and circumstances surrounding the incident are still being clarified.

According to online records, former UFC heavyweight champion Velazquez has been held without bail in Santa Clara County Jail. NBC Bay Area was the first to announce his alleged involvement in the incident, with TMZ being the first to report the allegations on Tuesday.

Velázquez is due to appear in court on Wednesday.

San Jose police initially confirmed that a shooting took place on Monday, but did not identify the suspect who was detained or the victim who was transported to a local hospital after the incident.

“Parts are currently at the scene of the shooting near the intersection of Monterey Hwy and Bailey Ave,” San Jose police said on the department’s official Twitter account.

“An elderly man, shot at least once, was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. One suspect in custody. Unknown motive or circumstances. “

Velazquez, 39, is widely recognized as one of the best heavyweight fighters in UFC history after numerous titles in the promotion.

Unfortunately for Velázquez, much of his career has been marked by injuries. He last competed in February 2019, when he lost by knockout in the first round to future UFC champion Francis Nganu. Nine months after the defeat, Velázquez has announced his retirement from mixed martial arts, while planning to go full-time in wrestling.

After a brief stint at WWE, Velázquez is working with AAA, a wrestling promotion based in Mexico.

Here, LeBron. It’s deja vu again.

In the tumultuous and sharp decline of the Los Angeles Lakers over the past few months, LeBron James has returned to the same self-denial, an insult to your intelligence that can blame anyone but him who used it for such a bad impact a decade ago when he joined to the Miami Heath with those famous words about transferring their talents to South Beach.

His current dilemma went from bad to worse over the weekend, with LA giving up the Clippers and Pelicans, losing to mediocre top teams that sparked the Lakers’ idea of ​​flirting with not even playing.

Against the backdrop of this struggle – due to LeBron’s insistence last season to have Russell Westbrook – media reports and LeBron’s not-so-subtle signs over the past week include:

• LeBron informed everyone that he would be ready to play for Cleveland again. Which, you know, would mean leaving LA
• He said LeBron was unhappy with the lack of moves in the Lakers front office’s exchange deadline, a disappointment that ignored the fact that there was nothing to be done given Westbrook’s massive contact and the court’s highly disappointing reality.
• LeBron praised Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti, a prelude to the report that LeBron actually wanted Presti to replace Lakers General Rob Pelinka. Which, you know, doesn’t mean it’s all rainbows and puppies in LeBron’s land.

This went so badly that his agent Rich Paul had to step down a few days ago, making it clear, along with the Lakers, that there is no animosity, everything is great, everyone is on the same page.

Just a public statement that has nothing to see here, which means that there really is something to see here.

So what did LeBron do this weekend to continue? He went from attacking Pelinka for what he actually blamed on LeBron, to criticizing the media for what – you guessed it – LeBron was also doing.

“I do not understand how some of my comments about [All-Star] the weekend was spent in a very different area of ​​”Can I retire as a gentleman?” he said. “I never said I would see myself playing in a gentleman’s uniform.”

Hmm, right.

There were also:

“You guys take some of my words and twist them in different places where they shouldn’t go.”

Of course, LeBron. You did it.

The thing is, we’ve been here before, and that’s the real concern. LeBron’s need to develop drama this season and then take an aggressive defensive stance when that drama gets out of his control is very similar to his first-year approach in Miami, which I covered as a beat columnist.

This whole thing didn’t end well. And this season – and his next in LA – they won’t do it if he doesn’t apply the lessons from 2010-11 to 2022.

Put it this way: It’s crazy to do the same thing over and over and expect different results. So, here are some tips to give common sense to this professional organization of the Lakers and the leader who is on its unstable leadership.

LeBron is great for all time – almost the best of all time – and, as far as any of us can really tell from a distance, a good man. I personally like it. So this advice comes from a place of authenticity, not a lure.

LeBron James, starting now, must:

1. Take responsibility. This mess is LeBron’s, not Pelinka’s, not the media’s, not even Westbrook’s, despite his brutal game. LeBron may argue that he is not a shadow CEO, but remember before the deal last summer that brought Russ to LA that LeBron had a meeting weeks earlier to say how the Anthony Davis-LeBron-Westbrook partnership would work. .

As in: He created it before it happened. Like, well, GM.

He made his call. It did not work out. Accept it.

2. Arrange things on the court, not Machiavellian maneuvers off the court. Stop trying to play a major media manipulator. Stop throwing your frustration at others who inevitably obey your will. Stop being angry that people – Lakers and members of the media – take you seriously. Stop the whole drama off the court. Take him to court. You made this bed. Play as well as you can.

3. Do not offend our intelligence. Those surrounded by yes-men and yes-women can often lose track of the fact that we, society as a whole, are mostly not stupid. We can hear the contradictions, see through the possible villains and react accordingly. People often don’t like politicians because they are full of it and ask us to pretend they aren’t. Avoid this trap.

All these things – machinations, guilt, the need to point the finger elsewhere so as not to look in the mirror – sow drama and discord. LeBron James may be able to handle this weight without the impact of the court – he could not in 2011 – but most of his teammates will not. LeBron James’s gravitational pull is too strong. The physics of being in its orbit, for better or worse, is astounding and brutal to try to fight.

King James? Everything is fine.

Drama King James? Much less effective.

In Miami, LeBron was like a superhero who didn’t use his gifts. He had incredible powers, of course, but every time he tried to use them, he unleashed more than he and the people around him could handle. It’s been a decade, but he’s making those mistakes again because, like that first year in Miami, LeBron has bitten more than he can chew.

Then the world reacted under the pressure and anxiety of how he left Cleveland. Now the pressure and fear of his NBA career is coming to an end, and the mistake he made in entrusting valuable last seasons to Russell Westbrook as a teammate.

This season of the Lakers is unlikely to end well, and next year looks just as terrible.

But LeBron has proven that people like me are wrong before. To do this again, he will have to apply the same lesson he once told me he learned after failing the finals in 2011.

To forget about all the things off the court and to deal – whatever it is – with the thing he is exceptional at: basketball.

German coach Marcus Gisdol left his job as coach of Russia’s Lokomotiv Moscow football club on Tuesday in protest of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Lokomotiv simply said that Gisdol was “removed from the post of head coach” after less than four months at the helm. He told the German tabloid Bild that it was a gesture of protest against work in a country “whose head of state is responsible for an aggressive war in the middle of Europe”.

“I can’t stand on the training field in Moscow, training the players, demanding professionalism, and orders are issued a few kilometers away, which bring great suffering to the whole nation,” Gisdol told the newspaper.

The locomotive is owned by Russian Railways, which was placed under US sanctions last week. Gisdol was appointed in October by then-sporting director Ralph Rangnik, who later coached Manchester United.

Former Liverpool and Ukraine striker Andriy Voronin has resigned as assistant coach of Dynamo Moscow, and Ukrainian goalkeeper Yaroslav Hodzur has left another club, Ural Ekaterinburg. The president of the Urals told TASS that a second Ukrainian player would follow.

Others remain in place. “I’m not one to take a ticket and fly,” Dynamo Germany head coach Sandro Schwartz said in a comment posted in Russian on the club’s website on Saturday. “It’s not me. I feel responsible and I will be in the club.”

The Russian Premier League continued to operate despite the war, while the Ukrainian Premier League was halted when the invasion began last week. Brazilian players from clubs in Ukraine have turned to their government for help in leaving the country.

Derek Jeter’s decision to step down as Miami Marlins chief executive sparked theory from World Series champion Justin Turner on Monday.

Turner, who currently plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers, tweeted that Jeter was retiring for two main reasons.

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The Dodgers’ Justin Turner celebrates after a home run against the Milwaukee Brewers on October 2, 2021 in Los Angeles.
(AP Photo / Ashley Landis)

“Hot decision,” Turner began. “My sources, common sense and reading between the lines, tell me that one of the greatest champions in our games, Derek Jeter, is retiring from a team with one of the best young teams in the game because the property is not committed to winning. and spending money to try to win. Derek Jeter is the winner, and if you ask him to lose, he will back off. Thank you for your continued years of leadership and everything you have done for our DJ DJ.

“And just to confirm, I haven’t spoken to spokesman Derek Jeter.”

Jeter took over as CEO when Bruce Sherman bought the team from Jeffrey Loria in 2017. Miami only qualified for the playoffs during the shortened coronavirus pandemic season in 2020 due to the expanded playoffs.

DEREK JETTER LEAVES POST AS CEO, SHAREHOLDER OF MIAMI MARLINS

Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter is watching a spring practice game against the Houston Astros on March 5, 2021 in Jupiter, Florida.
(AP Photo / Lynne Sladky, file)

“Through hard work, trust and accountability, we have transformed every aspect of the franchise, transforming the workforce and developing a long-term strategic plan for success,” Jeter said in a statement. “As we said, the vision for the future of the franchise is different from the one I signed up to lead.”

Sherman added: “We have a rich team of talent who will oversee both business and baseball decisions as we work to identify a new CEO to lead our franchise.”

Jeter, a five-time World Series champion with the New York Yankees, is used to winning. This is something the Marlins didn’t do much other than their titles in 1997 and 2003.

Derek Jeter spoke to the media before the Marlins match against Philadelphia Phillies on October 2, 2021 in Miami.
(AP Photo / Lynne Sladky, file)

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Miami was 218-327 at the time of Jeter. He helped renovate the organization’s agricultural system. The team had only one prospect in the top 100 of baseball America before the start of the 2017 season. Before 2021, the team had six on the list of the Top 100.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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