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Should young athletes commit to college programs? Spear: ‘No’

What’s next, a toddler signing a letter of intent?

Want to know what’s wrong with college athletics? The story of Michael Avery pretty much tells the tale. Don’t know Michael Avery? Didn’t think so.

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  • Spear: Track’s tough rhetoric is right on the money

    DARLINGTON YOU KNOW THE hype, the tub-thumping chant about Darlington Raceway. Too Tough To Tame. Too Tough To Tame. Too Tough To Tame.- 10:18 PM

  • Spear: Darlington proves as unforgiving as ever

    DARLINGTON IF THE GUYS on the No. 48 team could have looked into the future and brought three race cars to Darlington for this weekend, driver Jimmie Johnson could have gone for the hat trick.- 9:59 PM

  • Spear: More mature Kim serves notice to rest of Tour

    CHARLOTTE LET’S NOT GO overboard, but, geez, Anthony Kim made his one-time braggadocio look real Sunday as he lapped the field in the Wachovia Championship.- 9:28 AM

  • Spear: Yes, Holtz should be in the hall of fame


    Yes, yes, yes, Lou Holtz saw his South Carolina teams struggle — and sometimes drift aimlessly out of control — in the final two seasons before his retirement from coaching. His micro-managing and undercutting his assistants almost guaranteed that scenario.- 11:32 PM

  • Spear: Fans see hope in '08 Tigers

    THEY CAME WEARING orange and optimism Monday night, and who can blame them?- 8:07 AM

  • Spear: Perhaps, a little Boo could cure U.S. Ryder woes

    HILTON HEAD ISLAND LET’S PLAY "WHAT if," a game that presents assumptions with the answers limited only by imagination.- 6:57 AM

  • Should other colleges host championship games? Spear says yes

    Hey, fair’s fair, and one university should not have a monopoly on the opportunity to impress potential recruits by always staging high school championship football games — if the site of a championship game really matters to future college players.- 10:08 PM

  • Spear: Stoic Gainey counts to 10

    HILTON HEAD ISLAND TOMMY GAINEY, A man with considerable golfing ability and even more restraint and candor, earned a three-cheers salute at Harbour Town Golf Links on Friday.- 10:06 PM

  • Spear | Trahan’s patience pays off

    HILTON HEAD ISLAND D.J. TRAHAN BOGEYED his second hole, threw away another shot on his sixth and stood 3 over par after eight holes Thursday morning in the first round of the Verizon Heritage.- 11:05 PM

  • Spear | New and old showcase Darlington’s changes

    DARLINGTON YESTERDAY AND TODAY converged at Darlington Raceway on Wednesday, and the old guy reminded everyone how good he was and illustrated that he still knows a thing or two about speed, especially at stock-car racing’s oldest super-speedway.- 10:49 PM