Jack Nicklaus has 73 PGA Tour victories to his name, making a total of $5.7 million over the course of his career. 

To put that in perspective, Brooks Koepka earned more than $9.6 million dollars last season alone.

To put it even more in perspective, here's your annual reminder that the 18-time major winner earned just $33.33 for his professional paycheck, 58 years ago today.

That's right, as the Golden Bear has pointed out previously on his social-media channels, his tie for 50th at the Los Angeles Open in 1962 netted him barely enough to cover this Danny Devito shower curtain ... before shipping.

Nicklaus, who turns 80 later this month, eventually earned some money, and lots of it. His net worth is north of $300 million thanks to an empire that includes golf course design, real estate, wine, ice cream, clothing, golf academies and plenty more.

Every golf calendar arguably begins and ends with the major championships, and 2020 will be no different with Tiger Woods returning to defend his title at Augusta National in April and Phil Mickelson eyeing one final shot at Winged Foot and the U.S. Open.

But beyond the four Grand Slam stops, the new year provides plenty of intrigue and opportunity. Here’s a look at the top 10 non-major tournaments to watch in 2020:

• The American Express (Jan. 16-19). Traditionally the old “Bob Hope” has been a key part of the Tour’s quiet start to the year, but next week’s edition has a different feel. American Express announced a five-year sponsorship deal to give the event some much-needed stability and Phil Mickelson, a two-time winner of the Hope, has signed on to host the event.

• Farmers Insurance Open (Jan. 23-26). Woods seems poised to make his first start of ’20 at a place where he’s won eight professional titles, but the debuts go well beyond Tiger. Jason Day, who withdrew from the Presidents Cup in December with an injury, is currently committed to the event as is last year’s Jack Nicklaus Award winner, Rory McIlroy. Professional golf’s wraparound schedule may keep players engaged all year, but Torrey Pines is where the game’s best return to work.

• Saudi International (Jan. 30-Feb. 2). The European Tour stop provided plenty of content last year for mostly the wrong reasons. Players were criticized for playing the event amid growing concerns over Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, and increasing tensions between the United States and Iran will make this year’s stop even more of a talking point. Still, top players including world No. 1 Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson have committed to play the event, making the second-year tournament a must-see stop.

• Arnold Palmer Invitational (March 5-8). Any return to Bay Hill and Arnie’s Place is good for the golf soul but this year’s event has the potential to be historic. While the golf world celebrated Woods’ record-tying victory in Japan last fall, he now sets his sights on triumph No. 83. The API, where he’s an eight-time winner, is as good a spot as any to make history.

• The Players Championship (March 5-8). The “fifth” major’s return to the cooler confines of March produced one of 2019’s most inspired finishes, with McIlroy’s victory and the weather, which is going to make the March event more unpredictable, will likely be more of a factor this time around.

• Irish Open (May 28-31). Following cameos in July the last two years, the event moves back to May, perched perfectly between the PGA Championship and U.S. Open. The move should make the Irish Open more palatable for international players like McIlroy, who skipped the championship last year but has committed to playing the event in ’20.

• WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational (July 2-5). Last year’s schedule makeover left the Memphis stop directly after The Open and dangerously close to becoming a geographically undesirable stop. The move to early July this year helps alleviate those scheduling issues, but it’s still going to make for an interesting run with two majors (U.S. Open and Open Championship), a World Golf Championship and the Olympics scheduled in a seven-week stretch on three continents.

• The Olympics (July 30-Aug. 2). This year’s Games have none of the concerns that haunted golf’s return to the Olympics in 2016, and so far the event has received universal support from the game’s biggest stars, including Woods and McIlroy. Fitting the Olympics into the golf calendar - not to mention the logistics of playing a high-profile event in Tokyo - has been a challenge, but the potential to have the game’s best competing for a Gold Medal in primetime is an unparalleled payoff.

• The Northern Trust (Aug. 13-16). The first playoff stop has taken on added importance following last year’s move to just three postseason events, but the event stands out in ’20 because of where it’s going to be played, not when. The tournament will be held at TPC Boston, which had been the site of the previous playoff event that was nixed from the condensed schedule. The layout has grown on players throughout the years and the fans have proven to be as passionate about golf as they are for football and baseball.

• Ryder Cup (Sept. 25-27). Inevitably, the matches always stand out among the year’s best events, and this year’s Ryder Cup is shaping up to be particularly intriguing. Playing-captain Woods proved at last year’s Presidents Cup he’s not ready to trade his clubs for a captain’s cart just yet and Steve Stricker has proven to be the kind of leader the U.S. team is inspired by. Conversely, European frontman Padraig Harrington has been preparing for this his entire life and Whistling Straits, site of this year’s matches, isn’t the type of venue that would offer a home-field advantage. If you’re scoring at home, it's officially too close to call.

Former MLS and Eredivisie league midfielder Marco Pablo Pappa was sentenced to five years in prison for a domestic violence offence in Guatemala on Tuesday.

Pappa, who played for Chicago Fire, Colorado Rapids and Seattle Sounders, was processed after entering a guilty plea in facing charges against his girlfriend. He had allegedly hit his girlfriend on Jan. 21, 2019, but she did not want to file charges against Pappa.

A public prosecutor in Guatemala, however, continued to follow the case and brought the charges against the former Heerenveen player, who was alleged to have been inebriated during the incident.

Pappa, 32, had been previously detained in Guatemala in January 2018 for alleged domestic violence against then-girlfriend Francesca Marie Kennedy. The former Guatemala U23 midfielder issued a public apology to Kennedy in July of 2018 as part of the court settlement.

In the apology, Pappa promised to make an effort to be an example for future generations to promote respect toward women.

In December of 2015, Pappa was an alleged victim of domestic violence against his then-girlfriend in Colorado, the ex-Miss Washington pageant winner Stormy Keffeler.

According to police reports, Keffeler attacked Pappa with a knife in Seattle. Pappa is eligible to have his sentence commuted if the court finds no prior convictions against him. Pappa is not currently playing professional football.

Dom Bess has admitted that he "lost a lot of confidence" in his game while out of the England team, after finding himself unable to break into the Somerset team a month after his Test debut in 2018.

After his county team-mate Jack Leach injured his thumb the day before a squad announcement, Bess was parachuted into the Test side to play Pakistan, taking three wickets to help complete an innings win at Headingley. But Leach's return to fitness meant that he was playing second-team cricket only weeks later, causing him to fall "off the radar a little bit".

He remained second choice at Somerset in the 2019 season, and had to go on loan to Yorkshire to get County Championship playing time, but found himself called up for the South Africa tour at the last minute following Leach's illness, and impressed sufficiently in the nets to earn a place in the side for the Newlands Test, where he bowled 60 overs to help England to victory.

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"It has been a hell of a ride," Bess said. "I played the Test matches in 2018 and did alright, but then fell off the radar a little bit, and within myself I lost a lot of confidence within my game.

"Over the last two years, I've just been gradually building that back up, and became a lot more realistic about things. I'm only 22 so I've got time on my side, but to get that luck to be here and to take that opportunity is just amazing, and I guess it sums up cricket really.

"It just goes to show that all I have to do is knuckle down, work hard, which I have been doing over the last four or five months, working on my action, and then when you get an opportunity like this you can put it into place and see if it can withstand the pressure."

"I'm happy bowling at one end, not picking up wickets and letting the boys do it at the other end" Dom Bess

Bess' success at Newlands can in part be attributed to a push from the ECB to introduce more bespoke programmes for young players. In November, he travelled to Mumbai alongside Mason Crane and Amar Virdi as part of a spin-bowling camp, and worked extensively with Rangana Herath in the nets, and will travel to Australia with the Lions following this tour to give him exposure to those conditions with an eye on the 2021-22 Ashes.

"I was in India a few weeks ago with Herath which was an unbelievable experience and really helped me," Bess said. "Picking the brains of someone with that knowledge and who is that good in those conditions is crucial.

"I get told a lot that I always want to try and bowl magic balls… this is where I'm starting to mature and realise that it is about building it up bit by bit.

"I'm really happy with how I went here because I felt like I built up pressure and produced chances along the way. That is what I'm looking for, the whole package. I'd love to be taking four or five wickets and being the man, but if I am producing consistently then that will come another day."

Bess became the first England spinner since Ashley Giles in 2003 to bowl 60 overs in a Test match with an economy rate below 2, and earned plaudits from both sides for his efforts in the holding role. He bowled almost exclusively from the Kelvin Grove End, allowing England's seamers to rotate from the Wynberg End which offered them more assistance, and conceded 1.98 runs per over, in stark contrast to the 3.82 he leaked in his first two Tests.

"It was all about trying to build up sustained pressure, and I think especially in the first innings that was key," he said.

"I could be a little bit more attacking in the second dig, but even then there wasn't a huge amount on offer from the straight. It was about putting the ball in the right place, and I got a couple of balls to bounce and take the inside edge and create chances.

"Some days they go to hand and some days they don't, but as long as I keep putting the ball in a good area and create chances then that is going to happen. When you've got guys like Stokesy at the other end and Jimmy and Broady then it is phenomenal - I'm happy bowling at one end, not picking up wickets and letting the boys do it at the other end. It is unbelievable to be a part of."

Bess' success is well timed for England, with a two-match series in Sri Lanka in March that their first-choice offspinner Moeen Ali is expected to miss in order to play in the Pakistan Super League, having made himself unavailable for Test cricket in order to "freshen up" after a "draining" summer.

But he maintained that his immediate focus was on keeping his spot for the Port Elizabeth Test, with Leach potentially back in contention after returning to training.

"I've got to focus on next week at PE [and] whether I play or not," he said. "I completely understand if Leachy plays, but hopefully I've put myself in a position to play."

England also travel to India next winter for a five-Test series, but Bess suggested that he needed to ensure he was playing regular first-class cricket before looking to the long term.

Bess' Somerset contract is up at the end of the coming season, and while the club insist they intend to keep him at Taunton, Yorkshire have publicly signalled their intentions to sign him. Even if Leach is picked for every England Test squad next year, he would likely only miss three Championship games, which could leave Bess struggling for playing time.

"There's a lot of cricket to come," he said, "but I've got to get through the summer and see if I'm playing for Somerset first before I start worrying about India."

Might we have just witnessed a changing of the guard?

In the dying moments of the second Test, England had a slip cordon that included Ollie Pope (aged 22 and playing his fifth Test), Zak Crawley (aged 21 and playing his second), Dom Bess (aged 22 and playing his third) and Dom Sibley (aged 24 and playing his fourth). Sam Curran, aged 21 and playing his 15th Test, wasn't so far away, either, while Jofra Archer, aged 24 and a veteran of seven Tests, would have been involved had he been fit.

Gone, for the moment at least, were Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes and Jonny Bairstow, while James Anderson has been ruled out of the remainder of the South Africa tour with a rib injury. Aged 37, with the gap between injuries apparently shortening, you wonder how many more Tests he has in him.

All of which underlines the impression that this is an England team in transition from one era to another. The Trevor Bayliss team enjoyed some great moments - not least victory in the 2015 Ashes and in South Africa a few months later - but perhaps never quite hit the heights they might have done.

Now a new team is emerging. There will be times, no doubt, when they stumble and there will be, no doubt, one or two who do not make the grade. But as Chris Silverwood, who celebrated his first Test win as England coach in Cape Town, made clear: these are the young men around whom the new side will be built.

"We had four players aged 22 or under involved in this Test," Silverwood, said. "And we saw all of them perform at some stage during this Test match.

"I think it shows we have a bright future. If we keep building, let the foundations set and keep believing in what we're doing, hopefully we'll see these guys continue to be successful and build a team around them."

It was interesting to hear Joe Root, the England captain, acknowledge that county cricket is currently not doing as good a job of preparing players for Test cricket as it once did in the aftermath of the result. As a consequence, he feels that players are obliged to "learn on their feet" when they come into the Test side. And as a result of that, a certain amount of failure is probably inevitable.

"County cricket is very different to Test cricket at the moment," Root said. "So players are having to learn the hard way and at the highest level. They're having to learn on their feet, but they're learning quickly."

It was a point echoed by Silverwood. He knows the next couple of years could include some tough moments - the Test tours of India (in 12 months) and Australia (in about 22) look especially daunting - but he knows that, if England are going to get the best out of these players, they are going to require patience. For that reason, he appears committed to providing them with extended opportunities.

"You've got to give them time," Silverwood said. "Sometimes you've got to allow them to make mistakes and allow them to learn from those mistakes.

"We've not finished building yet. We've still got things to work on. But the way Pope played in the first innings showed a lot of maturity, while the way Sibley built a platform for us in the second innings was very important. He built the platform for the rest of them to play around which was exactly what we needed.

"Not everything is going to work straight away. But things are falling into place and hopefully we can keep building on that."

These young players are fortunate to have the opportunity to develop alongside Ben Stokes. It's not just that any team with Stokes in it has a far greater chance of success; it's that he provides, at this stage of his career, an excellent example of the hard work and commitment required to maximise their ability.

"He is a great asset to have in any team," Silverwood said. "When it gets tough, he's the one you want in there. He fights. He doesn't know how to give up. And he's an inspiration for everyone around him. His energy gets everyone going.

"For any young kid coming in to the team, to see how he does things gives them realisation of what it takes to play international cricket. He puts a huge amount of effort into making sure he's properly prepared to not only perform but to get the best out of everybody. He's setting the standard from a fitness point of view. His attitude, time and time again, is superb."

The England squad, most of whom have family or friends with them at present, are taking a few days off in Cape Town and will resume training in Port Elizabeth at the weekend.

James Anderson has been ruled out of the remainder of the tour of South Africa due to a left rib injury.

Anderson, the leading wicket-taker among fast bowlers in Test history, sustained the injury on the final day of the Cape Town Test. With England pressing for victory, he continued to bowl despite the pain and despite the knowledge that, by doing so, he risked exacerbating the problem.

He underwent a scan in Cape Town on Wednesday which confirmed the issue was bone-related rather than a soft-tissue injury. Such setbacks typically take between six to eight weeks to heal.

Anderson will return to England in the next few days for rest and rehab, with Craig Overton, the Somerset seamer, staying on with the squad as cover.

The new injury is a cruel setback for Anderson. The Cape Town Test was just his second since returning from a calf injury that limited him to only four overs in the entire Ashes campaign. The prospect of several more weeks of rehab may well prove disheartening.

Anderson bowled immaculately in Cape Town, even though he was limited to eight overs on the final day after reporting tightness and discomfort at the end of the morning session. He became the oldest England seamer to claim a five-wicket haul in Test cricket since Freddie Brown in 1951 in the first innings while his overall match figures were seven for 63 from 37 overs.

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Such figures may convince him that, once recovered, he can still play a role at Test level. He had previously suggested he may like to sit out England's tour of Sri Lanka in March - he argued the pitches will render him largely redundant in any case - with a view to returning to the side for the home season. England's first Test of the home summer, against West Indies, starts on June 4.

The news sustains England's tricky start to the tour. After contending with a virulent sickness bug that affected 11 players ahead or during the first Test, England lost their first-choice opening batsman, Rory Burns, to an ankle ligament injury while he was playing football in warm-up the day before the second Test. At the time Ben Stokes suggested, tongue only partly in cheek, that the tour was "cursed."

Anderson requires 16 more wickets to become the fourth man to claim 600 Test victims.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will decide on Thursday if it will take up the PCB's revised offer of playing two Tests in Pakistan later this month. ESPNcricinfo understands that the prospect of playing just a T20I series at the moment is off the table.

The BCB had earlier proposed to tour for the T20Is first, and decide on the Tests based on players' feedback about security and other aspects of touring. The BCB's primary issue was their inability to stay for an extended tour stretching beyond three weeks. But the PCB has now proposed to play two Tests, which will be part of the World Test Championship, and the T20Is closer to the T20 World Cup later this year.

Nazmul Hassan, the BCB president, called for an impromptu board meeting in Dhaka on Wednesday, to speak with the stakeholders.

"We have very little time in hand so we must decide by Thursday," Hassan said. "We have to consider the consequences of not touring, which is what we discussed with everyone. We are not worried about the bilateral T20I series, but we are unclear about the World Test Championship.

"We said we want to play only T20Is, but they wanted us to play the Tests. We will play the T20Is bilaterally before the [T20] World Cup. This was PCB's proposal today, but we haven't decided yet. We will on Thursday."

In an altered stance from earlier, the BCB appears to be willing to play a one-off Test only from a security standpoint, but the PCB isn't keen on the proposal. As such, a one-off Test can't be accommodated to be part of the World Test Championship.

"If you consider, it takes lesser time to play one Test than three T20Is. We will reach there the day before, and play five days," Hassan explained. "It may take seven or eight days to play the T20I series. We never said we wouldn't play in Pakistan. We are worried about duration. Everyone is a little nervous staying there for a longer period."

Mushfiqur Rahim is unlikely to tour, while a number of other players want to stay only for a "shorter" period. However, the PCB wasn't entirely convinced with the reasoning, citing that as many as 23 Bangladesh players had registered for the PSL draft fully knowing the tournament was to take place entirely in Pakistan this time.

"Mushfiqur never showed any interest to go to Pakistan," Hassan said. "The others are more interested in a short tour. We informed the PCB about this but they responded by saying if our players had agreed to play PSL for 35 days in different parts of Pakistan, why couldn't they play with the national team for a lesser duration. Most of our coaching staff is not willing to go. Our head coach said he will go for the T20Is. All the players want a short stay."

Hassan also defended the players for entering the PSL draft, saying merely registering for it didn't guarantee selection. "We can't really draw a conclusion from what they have said," Hassan reasoned. "They said that they won't be selected in the draft just because they sent their names. Then they would need an NOC from the BCB, so they tried to say that they gave their names for the sake of it."

Joe Burrow was on a recruiting visit to Louisiana. As a kid from Ohio, he wanted a taste of the local culture. And if anyone knew Louisiana culture, it's Ed Orgeron, the LSU coach who grew up in bayou country and now leads the state's beloved football program. So when the pair went out to dinner in May, Burrow anticipated the ultimate in local cuisine: crawfish.

The only problem: The menu at Mike Anderson's restaurant didn't include crawfish.

"I was looking forward to having crawfish in crawfish country," Burrow said.

Orgeron made a call. Mike Anderson Jr. answered.

"Being in the business for a while," Anderson said, "we have some vendors who can get that stuff when you need it in a hurry."

One call led to another, and sure enough, 15 pounds of crawfish landed at the table for Burrow and Orgeron. They finished it all.

Burrow, LSU's Heisman-winning quarterback, told that story last month, and fans loved it.

Start asking around, though, and this is hardly the only Orgeron anecdote worth retelling. Friends in Lafourche Parish in Louisiana remember the wild days of Orgeron's youth, when it took a summer shoveling shrimp on a boat to convince him to finish college. Orgeron's legendary energy is a popular topic, too, with Tommy Tuberville remembering how they used to pack coffee grounds under their lips like chewing tobacco to stay caffeinated during Miami's hectic practices.

With Orgeron on the brink of bringing a national title to LSU (the Tigers face Clemson in the College Football Playoff National Championship game Monday on ESPN), we talked with more than a dozen of his friends, family and players about his highs, lows and, of course, food.

Coco Orgeron, mother

As a kid, Ed Orgeron was pretty much just as he is today.

"He'd wake up at 6 a.m., and it was go, go, go," his mother said.

He'd watch Roy Rogers in the morning, and then it was off for a day of sports. Orgeron was always outdoors, and usually the majority of the neighborhood kids were playing just outside his porch, where his mother would sit, swing and read a book, watching the kids play.

When Ed was in second grade, however, the fun hit an abrupt ending. He broke his leg. The doctor fitted him for a cast that ran nearly all the way up his thigh. Within a week, however, Ed had figured out a way around the problem.

"He learned how to play football with the cast on, with crutches," his mother said. "We had to go in to the doctor nearly every week to get the cast changed."

The doctor begged Ed to take it easy, but that wasn't happening, so the process simply repeated itself every few days, with Ed and Coco showing up at the office, the mud-crusted cast coming off and a new one going on. Then it was back to football.

"You should've seen how fast he could go on those crutches," his mother said.

Bobby Hebert, high school and college teammate

Hebert and Orgeron grew up just a few miles apart, and they won a state championship together in high school in 1977. Hebert pulled out a photo of that team the other day, he said, and he was struck by how they all looked back then.

"We were all hippies," he said. "We had the long hair like Trevor Lawrence. That was no clean-cut Marine team."

After Orgeron quit LSU (he left school the summer after his freshman year and returned home) and worked the shrimp boats for a summer, he decided to return to school at Northwestern State University, where he roomed with Hebert.

"His dad dropped him off and just said, 'Make sure he gets up in the morning and goes to class,'" Hebert said.

Lloyd Cushenberry, LSU offensive lineman

Before games, LSU has a team meeting in which the Tigers hold a "Call Out Session." It's essentially a pep rally in the team hotel. Orgeron is always the star, but there's one session from last season that stands out.

"Coach O comes in to try to get us fired up. He's carrying two Red Bulls," Cushenberry said. "He rips his shirt off and shotguns both Red Bulls. Everybody was fired up after that."

Pete Carroll, former USC head coach

USC was looking for a new head coach in December 2000, and Carroll interviewed. He decided to stay in Los Angeles, mostly waiting to hear whether he'd land the job. There was a high school championship in Anaheim that weekend, so he went.

"I'm on the field, and I hear, 'Hey, Coach Carroll,'" he said, doing his best impression of Orgeron's Cajun accent.

The two spent the next few hours talking. Orgeron knew every player on both teams in the game, had scouted them and knew details about all the best recruits.

"And I just knew that this guy was going to bring me something that I couldn't get otherwise," Carroll said.

Tommy Tuberville, former Miami (Fla.) assistant coach

Jimmy Johnson hired Orgeron at Miami, despite a lack of on-field coaching experience, but he loved the guy's energy. What quickly became clear, however, was that Orgeron's energy was matched by his acumen on the defensive line. He simply loved coaching technique.

Tuberville and Orgeron were both young and single at the time, so they'd vacation together, and inevitably, talk would turn to football, and from there -- well, it could get heated.

"We'd be at dinner in some restaurant in Key West, and he'd get down in a three-point stance to explain some technique," Tuberville said. "In hotel rooms in Costa Rica, he's going all-out."

Tuberville said the attention to detail carried over to the practice fields, where Orgeron would often line up against his own D-linemen -- Russell Maryland, Warren Sapp, The Rock -- and run drills without any pads or protection. He'd come away bruised and bloodied.

Kyle Fetterly, Syracuse head equipment manager

One year, Syracuse head coach Paul Pasqualoni decided he wanted to start two-a-day workouts earlier, so he scheduled practice for 5:45 a.m. That meant the equipment staff had to arrive at 4 a.m. Sure enough, Orgeron was right there with them.

Orgeron was always the first guy in, full of energy, and he'd work out on the field just before practice -- sit-ups, push-ups, chin-ups, squat thrusts. One day, one of Fetterly's assistants stopped him.

"Coach, you're in good shape. Why do you do all this?" he asked.

Orgeron looked stunned. To take a day off would mean falling behind, and that's not something Orgeron would ever do.

"Son," he said, "the day I can't whoop a man's ass is the day I don't get out of bed."

Rashard Lawrence, LSU defensive end

The Tigers were practicing during the fall of Lawrence's freshman season in 2016. He wasn't playing much, and he was still getting a feel for Orgeron, who could be intense with his defensive linemen.

The details of what happened that day are a bit sketchy, but suffice it to say, defensive tackle Christian LaCouture accidentally clocked Orgeron in the face during a drill. Blood poured out of Orgeron's nose.

"He just wiped it off and kept going like nothing happened," Lawrence said. "Coach O, he can take a lick."

LaCouture is now a member of Orgeron's staff, working as a graduate assistant.

Tyler Spotts-Orgeron, son

Tyler was maybe 10. His younger brothers, twins Cody and Parker, were 4. It was a Saturday in California, and they were bored. They made the mistake of telling their father.

"On my in-home visit, the first thing he asked was, 'Mama, where's the gumbo?'"

LSU safety Grant Delpit

"He didn't like that too much," Spotts-Orgeron said.

So off they went to the local high school, and they ran defensive line drills for an hour, hitting bags and doing get-offs. If LSU's current crop of linemen become exhausted by a workout now, Spotts-Orgeron makes sure to tell them he was running the same drills when he was 10.

"And I learned never to tell Dad that I'm bored on a weekend again," he said.

Grant Delpit, LSU safety, and Bobby Hebert

The key to recruiting, Hebert said, is that Orgeron always knows how to connect with the moms. He's a genius at convincing them that he's the right guy to take care of their boys.

"On my in-home visit," Delpit said, "the first thing he asked was, 'Mama, where's the gumbo?'"

Said Orgeron: "If I'm doing 20 visits, I'm expecting 20 gumbos."

Austin Deculus, LSU offensive lineman

Deculus had just been big-game hunting in Texas with his father before Orgeron came to visit during recruiting. Deculus and his dad shot a buffalo and had the meat shipped to them in Louisiana. They had enough for nearly a year's worth of food -- steak cuts, sausage, pretty much anything. But for Orgeron's visit, Deculus whipped up some bison chili.

"Coach O had five bowls," he said.

Ja'Marr Chase, LSU receiver

One day this season, Chase, Justin Jefferson and Terrace Marshall were getting some homework done in receivers coach Mickey Joseph's office. Orgeron barged in with 20 pounds of crawfish.

"We stopped what we were doing, went into the coaches lounge and ate it immediately," Chase said.

Ken Hatfield, former Arkansas head coach

Orgeron got his first job -- as an assistant strength coach at Arkansas -- because he was big and loud.

The problem, Hatfield said, was that after Orgeron had the players' attention, no one was quite sure what he was saying. The thick Cajun accent and the guttural, gravelly voice often left players simply running in whatever direction Orgeron pointed, hoping they were doing what he'd asked.

The older guys just told them, "Do what the guy ahead of you is doing, and you'll be OK," Hatfield said.

John Bel Edwards, Louisiana governor

Edwards met Orgeron over dinner in 2017, and the two became fast friends. Edwards chalks it up to Orgeron's enthusiasm. It's infectious. More than that, though, it's genuine.

Edwards was Orgeron's guest at the Heisman ceremony last month. Edwards was sitting next to Orgeron's wife, Kelly, when Joe Burrow took the stage to accept the award. Burrow talked about the LSU program, his teammates, how thankful he was that Orgeron took a chance on a transfer QB from Ohio. When Edwards looked over at the coach, Orgeron was crying.

"Some people, when they speak out, especially when they do it over and over again, you can question how genuine and authentic they are," Edwards said. "I don't know anybody who knows him well who thinks he's insincere. He's as genuine a person as you'll ever know."

Coco Orgeron

This past August, Coco Orgeron turned 77. Her son called on her birthday, and she shared a thought that had occurred to her earlier that day.

Orgeron's high school team won a state title in 1977. His uniform number was 77. And now she was 77, too.

"This is your year," she told him.

"Mom," he said, "we're going to have the best team this year. I have a great feeling."

Coco smiles about it now, enjoying the coincidence.

"But then," she said, "I always thought he was going to be successful."

ESPN.com's Brady Henderson contributed to this report.

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr has been fined $25,000 for his tirade during Monday's loss to the Sacramento Kings.

Kerr was ejected late in the second quarter of a 111-98 loss after getting consecutive technical fouls from referee Jason Goldenberg.

Kerr appeared initially upset about a continuation call that went Sacramento's way, then erupted after Golden State did not receive a similar call. He angrily walked onto the court after the second technical and yelled at Goldenberg before leaving.

NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Kiki VanDeWeghe announced the fine Wednesday, saying it was officially for verbally abusing a game official and failing to leave the court in a timely manner following his ejection.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid will not play in Thursday's game against the Boston Celtics because of a dislocated left ring finger, according to the team.

Embiid suffered the injury in the first quarter of Monday's 120-113 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.

He was able to stay in the game, playing 32 minutes, but he said afterward that he had trouble going up for rebounds with his fingers taped.

The 76ers did not announce Embiid's status beyond Thursday's game. Philadelphia travels to play Dallas on Saturday.