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LSU Basketball at Florida: Broadcast info, betting odds, injury report for final regular-season game

Here’s what you need to know to follow LSU’s last game before the SEC Tournament.

A frustrating regular season for the Tigers men’s basketball team will mercifully come to an end on Saturday as LSU travels to take on Florida in the final game before the start of the SEC Tournament.

These two teams faced way back in January early in LSU’s 14-game losing streak, and the Gators won that one by 11 in Baton Rouge. However, UF has had struggles of its own recently and is just 2-6 in its last eight games. Todd Golden’s squad is coming off a 10-point road win over Georgia, though.

Here’s what you need to know as LSU looks to end a tough season on a high note, including the latest odds from BetMGM.

College football news: fake injuries here to stay for 2022 season

What would you do to fix this obvious college football problem?

What does college football have in common with men’s international soccer?

Fake injuries.  And a lot of them.

Whether you’re a fan of a team from the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, and independent, or a fan of a squad from a Group of Five conference chances are extremely high that you’ve seen your team have a fake injury pulled on them and that your favorite squad has faked an injury on someone else.

Well, that won’t be going away anytime soon.  At least not for the 2022 college football season.

The NCAA Football Rules Committee issued the following statement on Friday:

To address teams that are awarded an injury timeout through deceptive actions, the committee proposed a reporting and investigation process. Schools and conferences would be able to report questionable scenarios to the national coordinator of officials, who will review and provide feedback to the conference for further action. Any penalties levied would be up to the conference office or school involved.

“It is very difficult to legislate ethics, particularly when an injury timeout is being used to gain an advantage,” David Shaw said. “The small number of teams that seem to use these tactics should be addressed directly.”  

The committee considered several in-game options to address this, including altering the injury timeout rule to remove the injured student-athlete for more than one play, which is the current rule. This concept was debated at length, but the committee was concerned with the additional issues that could be created and did not want to encourage players to continue to participate when injured.

Committee members discussed how the pace of play appears to be contributing to this concern. “We considered all options to address this issue, including allowing both teams an opportunity to substitute after a first down,” David Shaw said. “This is another step to consider in the future.”

So there won’t be a penalty during the actual game but perhaps your program will be penalized in the days after.  Sure, that will get the problem to go away.

Just like fining athletic departments gets fans to stop rushing the field, right?

I don’t have the right answer in how to fix the faking of injuries but anyone who watches college football sees it on the regular and to anyone with an ounce of competitive spirit, they’re angered by the acts.  However, it appears those acts will be here to stay for at least 2022 and likely beyond.

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WATCH: Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin instructs player to go down on field with injury

Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin was caught instructing a player to fall to the ground with an injury after a long kickoff return vs. LSU.

Players have been suspected of falling to the ground with a fake injury for years. But it’s not quite every day you see a head coach appearing to instruct a player to do so as clearly as the cameras seemed to catch Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin in the act on Saturday against LSU.

After Ole Miss kick returner Avery Atkins took off for a 100-yard kickoff return touchdown that was unofficially 105 or 107 yards, SEC Network cameras caught Kiffin seemingly in the act of instructing one of his players to fall to the ground as they were coming off the field.

Kiffin was seen vehemently instructing backup tight end Jonathan Hess to go down on the field rather than continue making his way to the sideline after the kickoff return.

We would be naive to think this doesn’t happen every week around college football, but it is still odd to see, and it is absolutely something the SEC and the NCAA should attempt to address.

LSU had just orchestrated a nine-play drive that spanned 86 yards on the drive prior to the Ole Miss kickoff return. So Kiffin allegedly took this opportunity to give his defense one more chance to breathe after giving up a touchdown on a lengthy drive just moments before.

It may not have worked out as Kiffin had hoped, because LSU put together a 10-play drive, although Kiffin got the last laugh. LSU was forced to punt at the end of the extended drive.

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Watch: Kentucky appears to fake an injury during 4th quarter Georgia drive

UGA was set to attempt a 4th down when a Kentucky defender appeared to go down as a tactic to slow the Bulldogs down. Watch it here

Georgia currently leads Kentucky 14-3 late in the fourth quarter, after some mistakes by the Bulldogs allowed the Wildcats to hang around.

Georgia was set to attempt a 4th down and 5 from midfield when a Kentucky defender appeared to lay down as a tactic to slow the Bulldogs down.

This is one of the most blatant fake-injuries I’ve ever seen.

Watch it here:

There should be rules to keep things like this from happening. I’m all for protecting players and promoting defense, but acting like you are injured to get an offense off the field is laughable and bad for the sport.

 

Jermell Charlo: Tony Harrison was dropped in sparring, ‘faked injury’

Jermell Charlo accused Tony Harrison of getting dropped during sparring and then faking an ankle injury to avoid their rematch in July.

Bad blood continues to brew between Tony Harrison and Jermell Charlo.

The junior middleweights went back and forth during a testy, expletive-laden press conference Thursday in Los Angeles to announce their December 21 rematch in nearby Ontario. The rematch of their hotly disputed fight last year, in which Harrison took Charlo’s title by a split decision, was postponed after Harrison suffered an ankle injury in training camp.

Charlo, however, was never sold on that explanation. On Thursday, he insisted that Harrison “faked his injury” as a cover up for a sparring session that had gone wrong.

“DeAndre Ware was one of your sparring partners out in Detroit,” Charlo said. “He clipped you. Dropped you. You were out. And then you had to regroup in your mind. Keep it real.”

Charlo (32-1, 16 knockouts) suggested that the alleged knockdown left Harrison too rattled to go on with the rematch in the summer.

“You faked the injury,” Charlo continued. “Thank you for being honest. He wasn’t ready. He wasn’t ready for what I was getting ready to deliver to him.”Harrison (28-2, 21 KOs) chuckled and responded, “I’m here, aren’t I?”

But Charlo didn’t stop there.

“You didn’t have surgery,” he said. “June 3rd you were supposed to be having surgery on your ankle. He cleared himself. He didn’t have a doctor clear his ankle. … All of a sudden, you postpone the fight. Yeah, you faked it.”