COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina's athletic department reported nine NCAA secondary violations in the past six months, including one when a staffer bet dinner on a game not involving the Gamecocks.
South Carolina basketball coach Darrin Horn has granted scholarships to walk-ons Branden Conrad and Robert Wilder.
South Carolina's athletic department started criminal background checks on prospective coaches and administrators a few months after the NCAA placed the Gamecocks football program on three years probation.
ATLANTA -- There have been 29 conference tournaments across the nation over the last two weeks. And then there's the Southeastern Conference tournament.
Hope you were paying attention to BracketBusters weekend, because history says at least one team that participated will survive the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament.
Ever since we got into the thick of the presidential race, reporters, anchors, pundits, columnists and writers have spent a considerable amount of time on the fact that nearly 50 percent of the people who will vote in the South Carolina primary are black.
Sifting through this week's final batch of Mailbag submissions, I think I have a new appreciation for what it must be like to work as a customer service rep for an airline. Or the person who answers the phone when your cable goes out.
Imagine the drama if a three-loss Florida team had a shot to defend its national title, riding the skills of Heisman-winning touchdown machine Tim Tebow. Or if Colt Brennan could throw Hawaii to the Promised Land. Or if the Virginia Tech Hokies might continue their late season momentum and win a national title, providing a sense of collective joy to a school that's seen such tragedy.
This is it, folks. Only one weekend of games remains, and the pecking order at the top is pretty clearly defined: Missouri and West Virginia in line to play for the national championship, with Ohio State sitting on deck.
It was a great weekend for a number of top NFL prospects at running back as several turned in great performances and elevated their draft stock. On the other hand a few cornerbacks and offensive tackles watched their draft grade slide.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina's athletic department reported nine NCAA secondary violations in the past six months, including one when a staffer bet dinner on a game not involving the Gamecocks.
South Carolina basketball coach Darrin Horn has granted scholarships to walk-ons Branden Conrad and Robert Wilder.
South Carolina's athletic department started criminal background checks on prospective coaches and administrators a few months after the NCAA placed the Gamecocks football program on three years probation.
ATLANTA -- There have been 29 conference tournaments across the nation over the last two weeks. And then there's the Southeastern Conference tournament.
Hope you were paying attention to BracketBusters weekend, because history says at least one team that participated will survive the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament.
Ever since we got into the thick of the presidential race, reporters, anchors, pundits, columnists and writers have spent a considerable amount of time on the fact that nearly 50 percent of the people who will vote in the South Carolina primary are black.
Sifting through this week's final batch of Mailbag submissions, I think I have a new appreciation for what it must be like to work as a customer service rep for an airline. Or the person who answers the phone when your cable goes out.
Imagine the drama if a three-loss Florida team had a shot to defend its national title, riding the skills of Heisman-winning touchdown machine Tim Tebow. Or if Colt Brennan could throw Hawaii to the Promised Land. Or if the Virginia Tech Hokies might continue their late season momentum and win a national title, providing a sense of collective joy to a school that's seen such tragedy.
This is it, folks. Only one weekend of games remains, and the pecking order at the top is pretty clearly defined: Missouri and West Virginia in line to play for the national championship, with Ohio State sitting on deck.
It was a great weekend for a number of top NFL prospects at running back as several turned in great performances and elevated their draft stock. On the other hand a few cornerbacks and offensive tackles watched their draft grade slide.
Since Mark Richt took over as Georgia's coach, the Bulldogs have cleaned up on the recruiting trail.
As anyone who follows college football knows, parity has struck the nation this season like no other. Upsets have been rampant and the New World Order of the college football landscape gets flipped seemingly every week.
Last Thursday, I wrote a column from that night's USF-Rutgers game predicting the then second-ranked Bulls would likely be treated less mercifully by the voters and public following their loss than would a similar result in another conference. The general point was summed up in this passage:
Last week, the majority of e-mailers lauded my ascension of 6-0 South Florida to No. 1 over what many deemed a less-deserving, 7-0 Ohio State team.
The most tumultuous weekend in college football in years also shook up the Heisman Watch. Three candidates (Steve Slaton, Colt Brennan and Brian Brohm) got bumped while three others made huge gains in the top 10. One of those players who did not make the cut, but was close, was Cal's DeSean Jackson. The reasoning for that is below.
Mississippi State quarterback Josh Riddell tore an anterior cruciate ligament in his knee during Saturday's loss to South Carolina and is out for the rest of the season.
Steve Spurrier swore South Carolina's season wouldn't hinge on how the Gamecocks fared at LSU last week.
Following last week's Power Rankings, which included the unfortunate flaw of having Louisville ahead of a Kentucky team it had just lost to, and my subsequent explanation in the Mailbag about how it happened, many of you suggested by e-mail that I was falling victim to the very syndrome I gripe about in Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls:Too strict an adherence to preseason perception at the expense of actual, on-field results.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says the 16th-ranked Gamecocks are in "tryout mode" as he continues looking for players who can build the program into a Southeastern Conference contender.
The fourth week of the season saw several ranked teams suffering from hangovers after tough losses the prior Saturday. But a good number of talented prospects turned in impressive performances for NFL scouts.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Steve Spurrier is at it again, shuffling quarterbacks at South Carolina until he finds someone who plays the ball coach's game.
South Carolina's standout linebacker Jasper Brinkley will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, coach Steve Spurrier said in a news release Monday.
South Carolina starting safety Emanuel Cook had a court date set for Jan. 24 after his arrest on a weapons charge.
South Carolina defensive lineman Nathan Pepper will have surgery on his injured left knee and miss the rest of the season, coach Steve Spurrier said.
When Steve Spurrier's South Carolina Gamecocks went into Sanford Stadium last Saturday and took down Georgia, it further confirmed just how tough the Southeastern Conference is this season. And by tough I mean ridiculously deep.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said Tuesday he was disappointed with the Gamecocks' special teams and promised that several high-profile players who had been on the sidelines would see action this weekend during punts and kickoffs.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Blake Mitchell will return to his starting quarterback spot for South Carolina against No. 11 Georgia this weekend.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier talked all preseason about how his Gamecocks were ready to compete for the Southeastern Conference title.
South Carolina redshirt freshman quarterback Chris Smelley will get his chance Saturday against Louisiana-Lafayette to show coach Steve Spurrier and the rest of the Gamecock faithful that he deserves to be the starter.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina's athletic director has upheld the one-game suspension of Gamecocks quarterback Blake Mitchell and he will miss the season opener against Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina safety Emanuel Cook was arrested on a gun charge and suspended from the university Friday, making him ineligible to play for the Gamecocks.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina quarterback Blake Mitchell was one of three players suspended for the opening game against Louisiana-Lafayette for missing summer school classes, an athletics spokesman said Thursday.
Name the big-time college football program that recruits the most players nationally.
Over the past few years, I've noticed few topics elicit more curiosity among college football fans than the possibility of a conference shakeup. Though it's now been four years since the last major realignment craze, I still get e-mails nearly every week asking me whether I think School A might one day join Conference B or whether Conference C might annex Schools D and E.
Every year the Southeastern Conference boasts that it's the strongest league in college football, and a look at the schedules explains why. Just try to set up a soft schedule. With so many good teams in the SEC, it just cannot be done.
At a press conference to announce Billy Donovan's hiring by the Orlando Magic last Friday morning, nearly 6,500 words were spoken by Donovan and general manager Otis Smith as they sat side-by-side on stools at the center of the team's practice court. Buried in the final 300 words of the 45-minute ordeal was Smith's smiling statement -- in response to what Donovan's first act as coach would be -- that "we gave him the weekend off."
1. Steffi Graf needed three stitches Sunday after husband Andre Agassi accidentally hit her in the face with his racket at a fundraiser. Agassi's first move was to comfort his wife. His second was to call the housekeeper so she could open up the sofa bed.
The University of Mississippi didn't lose a thing in the fall of 1962. Oh, the history books might say something different, telling as they do of a black man named James Meredith and the failed, violent efforts to keep him from enrolling at the school, and the beginning of the end of segregation in the depths of the South. But posterity also records that after the gun smoke and tear gas had blown from the campus, the Ole Miss football team went 10-0, even as it shared its practice field with the federal troops bivouacked there. It was no small balm to white Mississippians, who watched what they called "our way of life" come forcefully to a close. In his autobiography the coach of that undefeated team, John Vaught, described the effect in a chapter titled "Football Saves a School."
For the past two months, the state of Arkansas has been witness to one of the strangest soap operas this side of General Hospital. An ostensibly successful SEC football program appears to be unraveling.
Perhaps, knowing what we know now, we should take another look at that familiar Florida logo, the one of the alligator with his teeth bared. Upon closer examination, it seems that there's a hint of a smile, a sly, Mona Lisa-like grin in his expression. It's as if he's amused to see the rest of us finally figure out something that he knew all along. Could it be that the Gator is having the last laugh?
Remember those sports books we used to read when we were kids? You know, read-'em-under-the-covers-with-a-flashlight stuff like Gridiron Greats and Say Hey: The Willie Mays Story. It was pretty str...
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