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Late free throws lift USC


South Carolina probably won't be among the nation's best free-throw shooting teams this season. But the Gamecocks got really hot there at a good time Friday night. And their coach thought that was indicative of something more abstract than a statistic.




  



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Painting of McElveen salutes football at PC

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

John Carroll Doyle, a Charleston-based artist who played football for Presbyterian College in 1967, has shown his thanks to the school by presenting it with a large oil painting depicting Raymond McElveen, a player for the school in 1918, holding a leather helm... Read MoreRead More

Wells pours in 24 to lead Bulldogs

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Cameron Wells scored 24 points, including 17 in the second half, to lead The Citadel to a 63-56 win over Eastern Michigan in the first round of the Hispanic College Fund Challenge at Missouri State University. Read MoreRead More

Tigers' Bowers following a different script

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

CLEMSON -- You've probably never heard of Jess Bowers. He's never played a snap. But like the other Clemson seniors, No. 91 will enter Death Valley today by running solo down the hill. Dabo Swinney said he's Clemson's Rudy. Read MoreRead More

Booker powers Tigers

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- If this is what passes for a tight game for No. 22 Clemson, the Tigers will take it. For the first time, a team kept it closer than 40 points against them -- but it still wasn't enough to test them for 40 minutes. Read MoreRead More

Today's Game: Stetson at Charleston Southern

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

WHENWHERE: 8:30 p.m., CSU Fieldhouse TV: none RADIO: WKJB 950 AM Stetson (1-2, 0-0 in Atlantic Sun) HEAD COACH: Derek Waugh (93-132 in 10th season) PLAYERS TO WATCHs... Read MoreRead More

Today's Game: Stetson at Charleston Southern

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

WHENWHERE: 8:30 p.m., CSU Fieldhouse TV: none RADIO: WKJB 950 AM Stetson (1-2, 0-0 in Atlantic Sun) HEAD COACH: Derek Waugh (93-132 in 10th season) PLAYERS TO WATCHs... Read MoreRead More

Party like it's 1991

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

We do not take Georgia Tech lightly in this little corner of the journalism world. In fact, this is where Paul Johnson's strategically unique Yellow Jackets were picked to win the 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference championship -- way back in December of 2008. Read MoreRead More

Buccaneers, Chants aim to claim winning mark

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
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Coastal Carolina coach David Bennett and his wife, Melanie, have a tradition for the Sunday following the end of the Chanticleers' football season. "Sunday afternoon after church, we go watch two movies when we are done with the season," Bennett said this week. Read MoreRead More

Around the state

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

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USC women bow to Wake in NCAA as time expires

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

COLUMBIA -- Wake Forest's Bess Harrington scored on a header in the final second as the Demon Deacons (16-5-2) pulled out a 1-0 win over South Carolina (19-4-2) at Stone Stadium on Friday night in the NCAA women's soccer touranment third round. Wake Forest forward Jill Hutchinson soared a... Read MoreRead More

Dogs want to go out a winner

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
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Citadel football players awoke at 5:30 a.m. on sweltering summer days to push around 200-pound sleds, flip giant tractor tires and do chin-ups with heavy iron chains draped around their necks. Read MoreRead More

First-place Rays beaten by Gwinnett

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

The Stingrays had plenty of luck Friday night against the Gwinnett Gladiators. Unfortunately most of it was bad luck. Read MoreRead More

S.C. State looking to fulfill multiple goals

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
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ORANGEBURG -- Finish the job. It's been head coach Buddy Pough's season-ending mantra to his South Carolina State football team every year since his arrival in 2001. Read MoreRead More

Late free throws lift USC

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
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South Carolina probably won't be among the nation's best free-throw shooting teams this season. But the Gamecocks got really hot there at a good time Friday night. And their coach thought that was indicative of something more abstract than a statistic. Read MoreRead More

Gators surge past Jackets for victory

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

Goose Creek -- Goose Creek coach Chuck Reedy says his team does its best work in the fourth quarter when the other team is just flat worn out. North Augusta was the latest to find that out. Read MoreRead More

Northwood comes up short

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

Junior quarterback Luke Sirgo tossed three touchdown passes and rushed for another to lead Hilton Head Christian to a 33-14 win over Northwood Academy in the SCISA Class AA State Championship game, played in Orangeburg. The Eagles finished the season with a 12-1 record, beating Northwood ... Read MoreRead More

Gaffney's third-quarter rally knocks out Summerville

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
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SUMMERVILLE -- The stakes weren't as high, but Gaffney's 35-28 victory over Summerville on Friday night was painfully familiar if you're a Green Wave player, coach or fan. Read MoreRead More

South Pointe too much for Trojans

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

South Pointe football fans like to call their team the Stallion Stampede. After Friday night's 42-0 win over James Island in the second round of the Class AAAA Division II playoffs, the Trojans headed home probably thinking they had just played the South Pointe Steamrollers. Read MoreRead More

Eagles deny Chargers' repeat bid

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

ORANGEBURG -- Junior quarterback Luke Sirgo tossed three touchdown passes and rushed for another to lead Hilton Head Christian to a 33-14 win over Northwood Academy in the SCISA Class AA state championship game Friday. Read MoreRead More

Friday High School Results

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

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Determined Stags stave off Eagles

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

MONCKS CORNER -- Berkeley's Evan MacKelvey picked off a long pass by Greenwood late in the fourth quarter to secure a 13-9 victory for the Stags in the second round of the Division II-AAAA playoffs Friday night. Read MoreRead More

Miami knocks off UNCW in Charleston Classic

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Malcolm Grant scored 18 points and Miami defeated North Carolina Wilmington, 67-60, on Friday in the Charleston Classic at Carolina First Arena. Read MoreRead More

Tulane tops Penn State in Charleston Classic

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Tulane’s Kevin Sims made a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 19 seconds to play and the Green Wave held on to beat Penn State 63-60 Friday in the second round of the Charleston Classic at Carolina First Arena. Read MoreRead More

Bucs upset Winthrop

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

RADFORD, VA. -- No. 6 Charleston Southern scored the final three points of game five to upset No. 3 Winthrop, 3-2 (28-26, 14-25, 25-23, 12-25, 16-14), Thursday in the first round of the Big South Conference volleyball tournament. Read MoreRead More

Thursday High School Results

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

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Seniors ready for final showdown on Saturday

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Regardless of what happens on the football field Saturday when Charleston Southern and Coastal Carolina meet in the season finale, 13 Buccaneers will walk away knowing they represent the most successful senior class in the football program's history. Read MoreRead More

Celebrating success

Football team's 11-1 record earns accolades from city before playoff game

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
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It was so important for North Charleston leaders to get behind the success of the Cougars that they put aside city business Thursday night and cooked steaks for the players at City Hall. Read MoreRead More

Defense continues to flourish despite injuries, youth

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
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COLUMBIA -- The play seemed innocuous enough, especially in September's first days. South Carolina middle linebacker Rodney Paulk turned one way, his left leg went the other and he had to be helped off the field in Raleigh. Read MoreRead More

Spiller pushing for more votes

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

CLEMSON -- C.J. Spiller wears suits to post-game press briefings. The senior star likens Saturdays to business affairs. His final home game against Virginia is shaping up to possibly be the most important business enterprise of his career. Read MoreRead More

Rays' Ford played tough during unbeaten streak

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
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Twenty seconds into the second period of Wednesday night's game, South Carolina Stingrays goalie Todd Ford realized it was going to be one of those nights. Read MoreRead More

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