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Newer stories | Older stories Larry Williams
Latest Sports HeadlinesLatest HeadlinesEleven ACC teams have division title hopesThursday, Nov. 6, 2008
CLEMSON — It's the first week of November, and 11 ACC teams still have legitimate hope of winning their divisions. Read story. Winning becomes contagious for VirginiaThursday, Oct. 30, 2008
CLEMSON — Virginia wideout Kevin Ogletree has a simple explanation for his team's completely unforeseen about-face. "Winning is contagious," Ogletree told reporters. Not long ago, losing seemed like a contagious and incurable disease in Charlottesville, Va. Read story. Terrapins own keys to roller-coaster rideThursday, Oct. 23, 2008
CLEMSON — Tommy Bowden engineered the biggest roller-coaster ride in the ACC during his 9 1/2-year tenure at Clemson. Bowden is gone, but he's passed the keys to Maryland's Ralph Friedgen. And the Terrapins' ride might be even more unpredictable than Clemson's was under Bowden. Read story. Bobby Bowden: Tommy saw writing on the wallThursday, Oct. 16, 2008
CLEMSON — Whether Tommy Bowden resigned or was fired has sparked vigorous debate since the coach and Clemson parted ways Monday morning. Bowden's father, Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, said Wednesday that it's all semantics anyway because his son knew the pink slip was coming. Bobby Bowden said Tommy Bowden called him Monday morning after his first meeting with athletic director Terry Don Phillips. The coach and Phillips had a meeting later in the morning, and Bowden offered his resignation. "He didn't say, 'I might get the ax.' He said, 'I'm going to get the ax,' " the elder Bowden recalled. Read story. Duke drawing more attentionThursday, Oct. 2, 2008
CLEMSON — It's been a while since we've written about Duke in this space — meaning, Duke football — and one reader has given us a Devil of a time about it. She sent an e-mail after Duke's 31-7 win over James Madison in the opener, wondering why we didn't make note of it. Read story. Time for Florida State's Bowden to hang it upThursday, Sept. 25, 2008
CLEMSON — No easy way to put this, because picking on Bobby Bowden feels kind of like cutting in front of a senior citizen at the local dinner buffet. We know the 78-year-old Bowden is in a heated race with Penn State's Joe Paterno for all-time wins among major college coaches (Paterno, 81, leads 376-375 at the moment). Read story. FSU gears for Wake testThursday, Sept. 18, 2008
CLEMSON — Saturday's game between Wake Forest and Florida State is big because we'll get a good read on the Seminoles, who've dusted Western Carolina and Chattanooga by an aggregate score of 115-7. But this game is just as intriguing for what it'll tell us about the Demon Deacons. Read story. Johnson's Jackets serving noticeThursday, Sept. 11, 2008
CLEMSON — Perhaps this season's most fascinating story is unfolding under our noses, right here in the weak old ACC. It's a little baffling that Paul Johnson's audacious experiment at Georgia Tech hasn't received more attention. Read story. ACC seeks positives after awful opening weekFriday, Sept. 5, 2008
CLEMSON — You've got to look awfully hard to find the silver lining in a positively awful opening weekend for the ACC. When the most impressive victories are over Baylor (Wake Forest), Delaware (Maryland) and Jacksonville State (Georgia Tech), the conference has some, uh, issues. Read story. New season ticket policy 'better than anticipated'Thursday, June 12, 2008
CLEMSON — When Clemson unveiled a significant restructuring of its football seating last summer, it did so with care, caution and no small amount of concern. Change typically doesn't go over well among the Tigers' fan base, and that's part of the reason Clemson officials paid marketing giant IMG to help introduce a new season-ticket policy that takes effect this season at Memorial Stadium. Read story. North Carolina's Hansbrough tops ACC first teamTuesday, March 11, 2008
CLEMSON — The deadline for All-Atlantic Coast Conference voting was Sunday at 9 p.m., and your humble correspondent missed it. Thanks to dreaded e-mail problems, the deadline came and went without the ballot being sent. ... Read story. Weird year may leave door open for ACC bubble teamsTuesday, March 4, 2008
CLEMSON — Lots of numbers, statistics and trends get thrown around this time of year as pundits speculate about at-large selections to the NCAA Tournament. But this year more than ever, historical precedent should not take precedence. Everything is relative, mainly because everything is watered down in college basketball. ... Read story. Deacons expose vulnerability of Duke's defenseTuesday, Feb. 19, 2008
CLEMSON — Several compelling developments sprang from Wake Forest's 86-73 upset of Duke on Sunday night. First, it injected some drama into the race for the regular season conference title. The No. 5 Blue Devils had rolled to a 10-0 ACC record heading into that game in Winston-Salem, winning each of their games by nine points or more. ... Read story. Lower-tier ACC teams looking to make run at NCAAsTuesday, Feb. 12, 2008
CLEMSON — Two years ago, the Atlantic Coast Conference put just four teams in the NCAA Tournament. That occurrence was viewed in some circles as an aberration, particularly after the conference sent seven teams last year. But with all 12 teams at or past the halfway point of t... Read story. Parity reigns thus far in Atlantic Coast ConferenceTuesday, Jan. 29, 2008
CLEMSON — Before the season, most Atlantic Coast Conference observers had no clue how to predict the conference race beyond North Carolina and Duke. It's safe to say the indecision was legit. With all 12 teams having played five or more conference games thus far, it's hard to tell much difference between third place (3-2 Boston College) and last place (1-4 Virginia). ... Read story. Newer stories | Older stories |
A native South Carolinian who graduated from Wando High School (barely),
Larry Williams became The Post and Courier’s Clemson beat reporter in
January of 2004. He spent the previous five years covering college sports
at The Augusta Chronicle. He has won awards from the Associated Press
Sports Editors, Georgia Sports Writers Association, and South Carolina
Press Association. In April, he'll be honored as Sportswriter of the Year
in South Carolina by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of
Fame. He got his start in the business in 1998 at the High Point (N.C.)
Enterprise, where he stayed long enough to grab a cup of coffee and meet
his future wife. His passion is college football, and his favorite place
to take in a game is between the hedges at Georgia’s Sanford Stadium. He
considers the tailgating at Clemson second to none, however. Williams, 32,
lives in Clemson with his wife. The couple had its first child, Ashby
Elisabeth, on Aug. 17.
