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Indirectly, and unbeknownst to him, Steve Spurrier had a hand in the hiring of Dawn Staley as South Carolina’s women’s basketball coach.- 10:16 AM
IT IS UNDERSTANDABLY difficult for South Carolina fans to have much foresight. For decades they have hung their hats on mediocrity and so wallowed in it that they don’t know a good thing when they see it.
Indirectly, and unbeknownst to him, Steve Spurrier had a hand in the hiring of Dawn Staley as South Carolina’s women’s basketball coach.- 10:16 AM
NEWBERRY COLLEGE STILL does not get it. Its board of trustees voted this past weekend to do away with the Indians nickname the school has carried for its athletics teams.- 12:43 PM
If you are looking for that moment of despair, that moment when Reese Havens slammed his bat against the back of the dugout, that moment when Havens began wondering if turning down a $1 million signing bonus was not such a good idea, well, stop searching.- 9:03 PM
THE NEW GRANITE Quarry Park along the banks of the Congaree River in downtown Columbia will ultimately serve as the latest monument to the escalating arms race in college athletics.- 12:43 AM
WITH EACH PASSING Columbia Inferno game in the ECHL chase to the Kelly Cup, the city of Columbia marches one step closer to professional sports extinction. Sad, but true, Columbia soon will be among the largest cities in the country without a professional sports team.- 8:14 AM
Everyone in women’s basketball circles agrees the best candidate for any head coaching vacancy should get the job. The battle lines are drawn — women against men — when the debate turns to whether the best candidates are being hired.- 1:20 AM
There is every reason to believe Eric Hyman will strongly consider a man to be the next women’s basketball coach at South Carolina. That’s a good thing. Rare is the athletics director these days who has the courage to even consider a male in a female dominated profession.- 12:59 AM
Operating independent of one another and without knowledge of their historic undertaking, three South Carolina women’s college basketball programs recently hired male coaches over a two-day period.- 12:59 AM
ADMIT IT, SPRING football games are a waste. Coaches don’t like them. Players despise them. Fans tolerate them. The annual spring game should be the biggest and best annual festival in Columbia.- 9:36 AM
IF SOUTH CAROLINA is to challenge for the SEC East Division championship this college football season, it badly needs to find some playmakers on offense.- 7:25 PM
