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SEC links for Tuesday:

• LSU suspends Bo Spencer from basketball team, reports Gary Laney of The Advocate.

• Jay G. Tate of the Montgomery Advertiser reports that an Auburn football signee is fighting leukemia.

• Paul Finebaum of the Mobile Press-Register writes that Urban Meyer’s outburst shows just how far beat writers have fallen.

• Tennessee basketball looking ahead to next season, reports Mike Griffith of the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

• John Adams of the News-Sentinel writes that UT got caught up in a high-speed chase.

• Mark Weidmer of the Chattanooga Times Free Press thinks Tennessee has a bright basketball future.

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Big Blue Links for Tuesday:

• Our Jerry Tipton writes that taking care of the basketball is Kentucky’s chief concern in tonight’s game at Ole Miss.
• Kentucky finally cracks the AP Top 25.
• You can listen to Billy Gillispie on the SEC teleconference yesterday.
• In the Clarion-Ledger, David Brandt writes that Jodie Meeks is a special challenge for Ole Miss.
• Parrish Alford of the NE Mississippi Daily Journal reports that Ole Miss could be without star freshman Terrico White tonight.
• Jim Mashek of the Biloxi Sun-Herald looks at the UK-Mississippi match-up.
• In his weekly Bracketology, espn.com’s Joe Lunardi moves UK up to a No. 4 seed.
• In the Courier-Journal, Rick Bozich talks about the red and blue streaks.
• Also in the C-J, Brett Dawson reports that Kentucky appears to be the SEC’s team to beat.
• Dawson also writes that Ramon Harris has been cleared to play tonight.
• In the Danville Advocate-Messenger, Larry Vaught writes that Harris’ episode Saturday was scary for UK parents.

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SEC links for Saturday:

• In the Birmingham News, columnist Kevin Scarbinsky writes that some Alabama basketball boosters dream of Tubby Smith.
• In the Gainesville Sun, Kevin Brockway reports that Billy Donovan and John Pelphrey are ready for their rubber match.
• In the AJC, columnist Mark Bradley examines the pro chances of ex-Georgia quarterback Matt Stafford.
• Randy Rosetta of the Baton Rouge Advocate writes that John Chavis is ready to shore up LSU’s defense.
• In the Knoxville News-Sentinel, Drew Edwards reports that Lane Kiffin has finished his first Tennessee staff.
• In the Mobile Press-Register, Gentry Estes reports that Lance Thompson’s departure from Bama staff is just “business.”
• In the Clarion-Ledger, Kyle Veazey reports that one new football assistant has ditched Mississippi State for Tennessee.
• Also in the Clarion-Ledger, David Brandt writes on Ole Miss’ high-flying Terrico White.
• In the Birmingham News, Ian Rapoport reports that with Ronald Steele out, Mikhail Torrance figures prominently in Alabama’s hoop plans.
• In The State, Seth Emerson writes that South Carolina will need energy in its matchup with Tennessee.
• Maurice Patton of the Tennessean writes that Vandy faces a major roadblock in Mississippi State.
• Tim Tucker of the AJC gets Mark Richt’s thoughts on this and that.