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In the SEC, the Court Just Looks Better
When the LSU women’s basketball team took the court for its SEC Tournament quarterfinal matchup with Oklahoma Friday, Tigers coach Kim Mulkey’s bedazzled basketball-print jacket had no competition for attention along the sideline.
Every other major conference weaves advertisements into its tourney, from event-level sponsorships to company logos on the hardwood—or LED-lit glass in the Big 12’s case this year. Even the Ivy League tourney is presented by TIAA. The SEC, however, has stayed comparatively clean.
Instead, SEC logos are everywhere at the start of March. Center court. Baseline. Stanchion. Underside of the jumbotron. And almost everywhere else is the league’s logo: It Just Means More.
It also looks better.
Business emblems have permeated pro sports—sewn onto jerseys, stamped onto equipment, digitally plastered behind players. Now they’re increasingly common in college too, where player pay has turned every dollar into a competitive advantage. The NCAA approved uniform patches in January, 18 months after allowing ads on college football fields.
Individual SEC schools have seized those commercial opportunities. Arkansas just announced a patch deal with Tyson Foods to go with the on-field logo that was already present at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
But the SEC has seemingly decided it has enough money, for now at least. Its football championship field also didn’t have a sponsored component. One doesn’t appear to be coming for the men’s hoops tourney next week. Last year, the conference still distributed $1 billion in revenue to its 16 members, becoming the first league to claim 10-figure earnings (the Big Ten likely reached the same milestone, but its financials don’t drop until May).
There are still some ads at this week’s women’s tournament in South Carolina. A digital board between the coaches hawks Bush’s Beans, Johnsonville sausages and T-Mobile phone service. A small Allstate mark stretches behind the basket. PepsiCo surely pays for the Gatorade coolers loitering behind the benches.
But those are exceptions that remind the audience just how rare the clean court is.
In February, countless Olympics watchers expressed their appreciation for the IOC’s (at this point only somewhat) clean venue policy. The Masters always stands out for its minimal sponsorships. Same goes for Wimbledon. Those events feel special because they are, turning down checks for a sense of sanctity. The NCAA itself has typically kept its tournament fields simple, too.
The Southeastern Conference is basically one long video board away from entering that pantheon of viewer-first design, letting the athletes shine alone. But I’ll happily settle for just the occasional bratwurst ad.
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Turkey detains over 200 suspects, including alleged ISIS militants, in sweeping raid ahead of NATO summit
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Turkish authorities reportedly detained more than 200 people, including suspected ISIS-linked militants, in a sweeping Tuesday raid in capital Ankara ahead of a July 7-8 NATO summit.
The raid came after Turkish authorities issued detention orders for 241 suspects, 209 of whom were taken into custody, The Associated Press reported, citing a statement from the office of Turkey’s chief prosecutor.
Among the 209 detained, 56 were allegedly ISIS militants, according to the AP. This comes after Turkish authorities said they detained 125 ISIS members in December.
The detention operations occurred just two weeks before a planned NATO summit in Ankara on July 7 that President Donald Trump is expected to attend.
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President Donald Trump greets Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on Oct. 13, 2025, to support ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo/Pool)
Other militants scooped up were 35 alleged members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front, which a Turkish statement described as “a far‑left group known for armed attacks and assassinations in Turkey,” according to the AP.
The ISIS-combating operations demonstrate the terrorist group’s ongoing activity in the region, showing the group is still functioning despite the U.S. campaign during Trump’s first term to eliminate the group’s caliphate and its control of large swaths of territory in the Middle East.
Iraqi government forces celebrate while holding an Islamis Sate (IS) group flag after they claimed they have gained complete control of the Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, on January 26, 2015 near the town of Muqdadiyah. (YOUNIS AL-BAYATI/AFP via Getty Images)
In recent years, ISIS has spread into the African continent, prompting a strong response from the U.S. In May, Trump authorized a series of strikes in Nigeria to combat the group.
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A May 16 strike killed ISIS leader Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, who was the group’s second-in-command globally.
U.S. and Nigerian forces conducted kinetic strikes against ISIS fighters in northeastern Nigeria on May 17, 2026, AFRICOM said. (X/U.S. Africa Command)
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“Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in Africa, but little did he know we had sources who kept us informed on what he was doing,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social after the strike. “He will no longer terrorize the people of Africa, or help plan operations to target Americans.”
The group’s renewed activity also includes a call to supporters to make attacks on U.S. soil during the World Cup.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Two whales were killed off the coast of Iceland overnight Sunday, two days after commercial hunting resumed, local media and animal rights activists reported Monday.
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The kill ends a two-year pause and marks the first catches since 2023.
Icelandic public broadcaster RUV reported that two fin whales were killed. The fin whale is the second largest animal on Earth after the blue whale.
Before the vessels set off on Friday, a protester had attached himself to one of the masts in the port of Reykjavik, but climbed down and was escorted away by police.
Iceland, Norway and Japan are the only three countries that still openly permit whaling, despite international condemnation from the public and animal welfare organisations.
Iceland cancelled its whale hunt over the past two years, partly because economic problems had cut demand and the industry was not deemed profitable enough.
“The first fin whale deaths in Iceland’s hunt this year are devastating,” said Joanna Swabe, European senior public affairs director for animal rights group Humane World for Animals.
“Iceland has killed more than 1,000 fin whales in the past two decades — not only the second largest animal on the planet but also a species classified as globally vulnerable to extinction,” Swabe said in a statement.
Iceland’s government has said it is planning to introduce a bill aimed at banning whaling this autumn.
The International Whaling Commission banned the commercial killing of whales in 1986 amid alarm at the declining stock of the marine mammals.
Iceland’s Marine and Freshwater Research Institute has recommended that no more than 150 fin whales are caught in the 2026 season.
That represents a 28-percent drop on the annual quota it recommended for the period 2018–2025, it said.
The institute has set an annual catch of 168 animals for the minke whale hunt this year, a 23-percent drop on 2018-2025.
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