Gene Sapakoff
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Gene Sapakoff writes columns and covers a variety of sports subjects (and sometimes non-sports subjects) for The Post and Courier. An Oregon native and graduate of Colorado State University, he moved to the Lowcountry to study history and eat Frogmore Stew. He has won many national writing and reporting awards. Since 1997 he has won South Carolina Press Association awards in eight different categories. His work has appeared in The Sporting News, Sport, Sports Illustrated, California, Us, Basketball America and Pro Football Weekly.
Recent Stories
How a No. 5 seed can win it all
The Office at Dunder Mifflin in Scranton did not get a first-hand, hometown look at a strong Final Four candidate this basketball season. But lucky you: Michigan State played at The Citadel in December and at times flexed national championship muscle.
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The state of Palmetto State hoops
You know this is a splendid season for college basketball in our famously charming state when South Carolina stuns Kentucky and the College of Charleston jolts North Carolina, but the Gamecocks and Cougars are not among the three Palmetto State teams headed for the NCAA Tournament.
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Duke can't save the ACC
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Mike Krzyzewski has endured back trouble before but nothing like this.
Try lugging an entire league around an NCAA Tournament bracket. Not to mention greater Greensboro, where Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament ticket books are selling for below half their average $432 face value.
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‘It hurts, and you have to use that'
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Larry Drew III got a clean look at the rim Thursday night but, like so much else that went wrong with the North Carolina basketball season, the Tar Heels' last best hope against Georgia Tech bounced in and out.
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Tweaking a better mousetrap
COLUMBIA -- Some people are never satisfied. You know the type. They whine about wine and roses if the bouquet and bouquet are not just so.
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The soul of Wofford's SoCon title
A warm spring evening. A cold winter night. Tragedy and triumph intertwined. The contrasting emotions gripping the heart of everyone ever associated with Wofford College basketball could not have been more opposite, but the two are forever linked.
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Bad things can happen to good programs
emI will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor, and high esprit de corps of The Citadel and the South Carolina Corps of Cadets."em First line of The Citadel's Cadet Creed The Citadel quarterback answered his cell phone Wednesday.
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Jump into a 96-team office pool
Come on in. The water is fine here in the heated hypothetical 96-team NCAA Tournament office pool.
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A big gain for Rogers
George Rogers was a wayward kid on a dead end street. He hung out with "winos and drunks" in an unfortunate part of Atlanta. School was a rumor. His mother had trouble providing for Rogers and his four siblings.
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Why the NBA is down on Downey
Look out, Lexington. Devan Downey is at Rupp Arena tonight and you know what that means. The last time South Carolina's little big scoring machine took on Kentucky he knocked the No. 1 Wildcats off the national pedestal. On national TV, no less.
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