SEC presidents met Thursday and did not vote LSU out. [1] This paper already printed the missing tally and Rousse recused. The conference lawsuit remains pending. No vote is not a dismissal. Print pending. Do not print cleared.

Fox Sports filed the same missing membership vote. [2] Continuing discussions are mush with a timestamp. A later no-sanctions wrap belongs to a later edition. Thursday prints pending beside the recusal.

Print pending. Print not expelled. Nothing today rewrites the Lawsuit line, on this Thursday Lagos sports desk.
A missing tally is still not a dismissed case, and recusal is still not a win for the Tigers.
Thursday is not a closed docket and not a membership night for LSU either. Recusal plus pending equals a docket on hold. Thursday holds it there.

Thursday's docket moves on neither word.

Missing tallies and recusals are the docket's two kinds of absence. Neither advances anything. Thursday's case file gathers dust in two places.

Dusty files gather; Thursday's gathers. Gathering is the update. Absences advance nothing.

Players still dress for a conference that has not voted them out. Lawyers still work a case that has not been dismissed. Thursday's meeting did not choose between those two facts.

The SEC met without a vote. Players still dress; lawyers still file. Thursday chose neither expulsion nor dismissal.

A no-vote conference call left both clocks running. The Tigers still dress. Axon's case still gathers dust in two places.

Thursday chose neither expulsion nor dismissal. Thursday left both clocks running. The Tigers still dress.

The Tigers still dress. Thursday chose neither expulsion nor dismissal. Thursday left both clocks running.

-- AMARA OKONKWO, Lagos