After LSU Football's 2013 Spring Game, head coach Les Miles paused his press conference to answer a reporter's cell phone.

According to Jay Glazer, former Tiger Matt Flynn, the QB who received a 3-year, $26 million deal from Seattle one year ago, was just traded to the Raiders in exchange for two draft picks. Glazer reports the two drafts are later-round picks in 2014 and 2015, so it appears the Raiders didn’t part with much. The next stop, obviously, will be for Oakland to trade unhappy QB Carson Palmer to the Cardinals.

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Reebok held a press conference at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on Tuesday with 15-time NBA All-Star Shaquille O’Neal to announce that retro versions of two of Shaq's classic signature sneakers would be released soon.

The Shaq Attaq and Shaqnosis are both set to make a triumphant return later this year.

Following South Carolina’s 64-46 home loss to LSU, coach Frank Martin delivered an epic press conference rant that was almost Jim Mora-like. You can watch the whole thing here. But below are some of the best excerpts...

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MARTIN (possibly chewing on a Jolly Rancher): Ummm… I hadn’t seen the stats. Unbelievable. If you take Bruce Ellington off our team, you probably have 12 leading candidates for the Walking – what’s that movie called? – the Return of the Living Dead. The zombie movie. If you took Bruce off our team, our guys would probably win an Academy for their performance in that movie.

I’ve been doing this for 28 years, nine of which was a junior varsity high school coach. That means I dealt with 14-year-olds. I’ve never been more embarrassed to call myself a basketball coach than I am today.

(Reporter asks question)

If this were the NBA, we’d take their money. We’d fine ‘em. We’d release ‘em and say “Good luck finding another job.” It’s not the NBA. We’re in education. So somehow, some way we’ve got to reach ‘em… No matter what your walk of life is, if you don’t have the word pride in your vocabulary, you’ve got no chance of sniffing success. I’m a lot of things. But I’ve got pride. I’m doing this right now out of respect to you and your jobs and it’s part of my job. But right now I’m so embarrassed. If this is the way my team plays, I should never coach basketball again.

We lead the country in airball layups. If you can’t make layups, it’s hard to win.

My assistant coach said right before the game, “I don’t like what’s going on right now. The locker room’s a morgue.” And that’s exactly what it was. If you’ve got no life for what you do, then you shouldn’t do it. If you have no passion for what you do, you shouldn’t do it. Right now we’re lifeless.

You control who you are every day in life. If you walk around with your head down and your shoulders down, then you’ve got no chance at what you’re doing.

You can’t expect 18- and 19-year olds to figure that out. Us guys that have been around, it’s our job to help them through it.

REPORTER: Do you think you’ve lost these guys?

MARTIN: If I’ve lost them, then they better disappear, because it’s going to be hard for them to be here next year if I’ve lost them 10 months into the job.

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