The Southeastern Conference and ESPN have signed a 20-year agreement through 2034 to create and operate a multiplatform network, which will launch in August 2014, it was announced today by SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and ESPN President John Skipper.

Tiffany Daniels, currently the Senior Associate Athletics Director for External Affairs at Georgia State University, has been named Associate Commissioner with the Southeastern Conference, Commissioner Mike Slive announced Friday.

Samantha Lambert, the winningest volleyball coach in Rhodes College history, has been added to Coach Jenny Hazelwood’s volleyball coaching staff at Mississippi State.

Thanks to the greatest fans in the nation, the @SECSportsUpdate Twitter account became on Wednesday the first primary departmental Twitter account in college athletics history to reach 100,000 followers.

Two Southeastern Conference volleyball squads on Friday will vie for the opportunity to advance to the NCAA Regional Finals. Fourteenth-seeded Florida is in Austin, Texas, to take on the third-seeded Longhorns at 8 p.m. ET Friday, while 16th seeded Kentucky is in West Lafayette, Ind., to square off with top-seeded Penn State at 5 p.m. ET Friday.