Gene Sapakoff
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Gene Sapakoff writes sports columns, works on sports and non-sports investigative projects and helps coordinate the Post and Courier's famed coverage of South Carolina and Clemson athletics. An Oregon native, he graduated from Colorado State University and bakes snickerdoodles. He has won many national awards for writing and reporting and has won South Carolina Press Association awards in 10 different categories since 1997, including the Judson Chapman Award for public service in 2011. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News and Baseball America. Gene serves as state representative for both the Heisman Trophy and Wooden Award. He is a Charleston Leadership Foundation board member and enjoys running, reading, Civil War research and Mexican food.
Recent Stories
Richard Todd returns to the air Thursday
Richard Todd, the popular “Morning Buzz” radio talk show host whose wife died after a long and public fight with cancer Jan. 3, will return to his WTMA time slot Thursday.
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Freddie Solomon was ahead of his time
Freddie Solomon, the Super Bowl-winning wide receiver who died of cancer Monday at 59, was a pioneer with a big heart. A Sumter native, Solomon was a dynamic quarterback when few college football rosters in the South were integrated and fewer schools were willing to play a black quarterback.
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SAPAKOFF COLUMN: Best for all: A little more Cremins
Anthony Johnson has more in common with College of Charleston interim head coach Mark Byington and athletic director Joe Hull than maroon golf shirts.
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Goudelock vs. Lin
New York Knick's sensation Jeremy Lin and Los Angeles Lakers rookie Andrew Goudelock both went to prestigious academic schools.
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Cremins, or no Cremins? Cougars head coach update
Mark Byington improved his record to 4-2 as interim head coach of the College of Charleston basketball team Saturday with a home upset of Southern Conference leader Davidson. And the plot thickens as the school waits to see if head coach Bobby Cremins, suffering from “exhaustion” and out on medical leave since Jan. 27, returns for next season.
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SAPAKOFF COLUMN: Locating the start of the USC dynasty
The source of the river of Gamecocks baseball glory has been found. Traced tributaries include back-to-back College World Series championships, late-inning magic, sellout crowds at Carolina Stadium and "Roth Star" -- King Michael himself -- on the cover of the latest Baseball America magazine.
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SAPAKOFF COLUMN: ACC hoops can't match SEC football
Rivalry Week included Round 1 of the Duke-North Carolina series Wednesday night, but the ferocious bear we recently knew as Atlantic Coast Conference basketball is, at best, hibernating. The ACC is just another major college league now, a top-heavy operation rated fifth among all conferences in the latest Sagarin computer poll.
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What does C of C do post-Cremins?
If you're not prepared for the first major storm of the season and a hurricane throws a brushback pitch at your roof, you probably start stocking up on bottled water and canned grub at the first mention of a tropical depression starting with the letter "B." College of Charleston head baske...
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SAPAKOFF COLUMN: Super advice: Run, Harry, run
Harry Carson says he can't lose. Whatever happens tonight in Super Bowl XLVI is gravy.
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USC basketball player Wanda Briley gets letter, 37 years later
When Wanda Briley walked into the school's Roundhouse athletic office building in December, the official presentation was anything but typical. Briley, a 59-year-old native of Mount Pleasant, played basketball for the Gamecocks from 1970 to 1974.
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