THE LINES OF DEMARCATION that once separated college sports seasons no longer exist.
There is nothing wrong with Playboy magazine for adults who want to purchase it. That is their prerogative. There is something wrong with public universities allowing their athletes to be represented in the publication’s pages.- 7:38 PM
THE OVER-REGULATED world of college baseball needs more regulation.- 8:05 AM
SKIP ANDERSON WAS certain he finally had caught a clerical error made by the Coastal Plain League. Anderson is the executive director of the Columbia Blowfish team in the college summer circuit.- 10:26 PM
Call me jaded. I seem to have less and less sympathy for athletes who use their sordid backgrounds as an excuse for the problems they encounter in their lives. I only have to look as far as my father to know that anything can be overcome in life.- 9:51 PM
SOMEHOW I DO not hear the alarm that should be sounding throughout sports concerning the admission by a former NBA official that he helped fix games. The scandal surrounding steroid abuse in baseball pales in comparison to the fixing of games in any sport.- 11:34 PM
SOUTH CAROLINA’S NCAA football probation concluded last week. Its athletics department surely learned a few lessons from a process that left USC on probation for three years.- 3:31 PM
By any measuring stick, South Carolina’s 2007-08 year of athletics was abysmal. From the collapse of the football team to the baseball team’s late-season failures, USC and its fans had little to cheer about.- 10:39 AM
COLLEGE BASEBALL HAS gone too far. The game is downright silly these days. The recent Raleigh Regional brought it all back to me: false hustle, overcoaching to the nth degree, bizarre strategy. All in the name of giving it the old college try.- 2:37 PM
RALEIGH NOT EVERY SOUTH Carolina baseball team can be expected to play in the College World Series. The one that bowed out of the Raleigh Regional on Sunday should have been one of those.- 1:08 PM
No doubt, South Carolina is not in the most ideal situation in the Raleigh Regional. But the Gamecocks are not facing dire straits, either. There exists some sunshine in the dark clouds.- 8:25 AM
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