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
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.
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
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
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
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
THEY CAME WEARING orange and optimism Monday night, and who can blame them?- 8:07 AM
HILTON HEAD ISLAND LET’S PLAY "WHAT if," a game that presents assumptions with the answers limited only by imagination.- 6:57 AM
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
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
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
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