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New RiverDogs manager Sean Smedley will have a tough act to follow after Charleston's back-to-back league championships in 2021 and 2022 with Tampa Bay Rays prospects and manager Blake Butera
South Carolina Stingrays defensemen Michael Kim has proven to be one of the club's top all-around defensemen this season.
Gene Sapakoff column: Former Charleston RiverDogs co-owner and master promoter Mike Veeck is the featured speaker at the 19th annual Hot Stove Banquet on January 27
When Justin Florek stepped off the ice last April, he wasn’t sure what his future would be in professional hockey.
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I’m not predicting or promising, and since y’all watch the same team I do (some would say we’re sentenced to watching it), I wouldn’t advise to even hope for this.
But it always helps to have a goal, and if South Carolina can meet this goal, at least the chance to make a Cinderella run improves an iota or two.
Caught up with Shane Beamer at the basketball game the other day, where he did the usual halftime speech to the crowd and had what looked like the entire football team out there with him.
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I was in the middle of writing another story when I got a phone call from California. Honestly, I was about to let it go, because I get too many spam calls from random numbers and I wasn't expecting a call from that state.
But then, it dawned on me. "Wait. Is this Lincoln Riley?"
Clemson coach Brad Brownell admitted last night's game with Virginia Tech wasn't "aesthetically pleasing." The Tigers shot 38 percent from the field. They turned it over 17 times.
But the Hokies shot just under 35 percent, including just 25 percent in the second half of Clemson's 51-50 win at Littlejohn Coliseum. That is the "rock-em, sock-em, blue-collar" game Brownell kind of expected against a physical, deliberate Virginia Tech team.
Everyone except Clemson had lost an ACC game coming into Tuesday.
The Charleston Battery won’t be hosting the Carolina Challenge Cup this year, but that doesn’t mean a team from Major League Soccer won’t be coming to the Lowcountry during the preseason.
The Charleston Battery soccer club announced its 2023 USL Championship schedule on Jan. 9.
South Carolina Stingrays goalie Tyler Wall has been a calming presence on the ice for the ECHL club.
Baseball America has named the Charleston RiverDogs the 2022 Minor League Team of the Year.
As hockey has spread throughout the Sun Belt regions of the United States more and more players are coming from areas outside of the traditional northern markets like South Carolina Stingray players Josh Wilkins and Connor Moore.
New Charleston Battery coach Ben Pirmann wasted little time putting his stamp on next year’s roster. The soccer club announced the retuning of 10 players from the 2022 roster on Nov. 22.
South Carolina Stingrays forward Cassius "Bear" Hughes has six goals and two assists in eight games for the club.
Ben Pirmann, the 2022 USL Championship Coach of the Year with Memphis 901 FC, will be named the new head coach of the Charleston Battery.
The South Carolina Stingrays used a two-goal first period to take the lead and never looked back as they downed the Atlanta Gladiators by a final score of 4-2 on Saturday night at the North Charleston Coliseum.
The play of Johnny Evans and Carter Turnbull are a major reason why the South Carolina Stingrays are off a 3-1 start this season and have put last year’s losing record in the review mirror.
The South Carolina Stingrays kicked off their 30th hockey season, and new coach Brenden Kotyk's first, with an 8-1 blowout of Norfolk on Oct. 22 before 7,008 fans at the North Charleston Coliseum.
South Carolina Stingrays forward Andrew Cherniwchan, 33, will be in his 10th full season and his third as team captain.
The South Carolina Stingrays, who open their season Oct. 21 at Norfolk, have set their roster as the hockey club begins its 30th season.
It’s easy to forget how young Fidel Barajas is.
St. Louis Blues left wing Nathan Walker returned to the Lowcountry for the first time this week since he played in six games for the ECHL's South Carolina Stingrays during the 2014-15 season
The Charleston Battery and head coach Conor Casey have agreed to part ways with one game left in Casey's first season with the soccer club, team officials announced on Oct. 12.
Veteran South Carolina Stingrays players like captain Andrew Cherniwchan and Justin Florek are determined to help the club return to the ECHL playoffs this season.
Gene Sapakoff column: Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker was quick to scatter praise after clinching a division title and playoff bye, much to the dismay of stunned New York Mets fans
The NHL’s St. Louis Blues will hold three days of practices at the North Charleston Coliseum.
The Charleston Battery soccer club added a pair of Charleston natives – Caden Theobald and former Bishop England High School star Joel Bunting – to the roster on Sept. 22.
Gene Sapakoff column: Charleston has had minor league managers Dave Trembley and Charlie Montoyo go on to become Major League skippers, and Blake Butera looks like the next in line
The Charleston Battery soccer team named Lee Cohen as the club's new president on Sept. 20.
Charleston did not win a minor league baseball title from 1922 to 2021 but now has won two in a row after taking the 2022 Carolina League Championship Series
The Sports Business Journal named Charleston as the No. 1 minor league city in the U.S.
The Charleston RiverDogs go to Lynchburg needing one win in two tries for a second consecutive minor league title
The Charleston RiverDogs go for their second straight minor league baseball championship after a 99-year drought with no Charleston league championships
Minor league baseball strategy is different in the playoffs, as the champion RiverDogs showed in 2021
The Charleston RiverDogs continue pursuit of a second consecutive minor league baseball championship after no titles for Charleston teams from 1922 until 2021.
The Charleston RiverDogs seek to win their second straight league championship after snapping a 99-year drought in 2021
Gene Sapakoff column: Dawn Staley standing firm on her decision to cancel a basketball series against BYU in response to a Duke volleyball player's version of an alleged incident in Provo might have widespread positive impact
Bunting isn’t part of big-league analytics, except in the minor league postseason
The Charleston Battery will face the Tampa Bay Rowdies on Sept. 10 at Patriots Point beginning at 7 p.m.
The Charleston Battery has signed a 16-year-old rising star who has played for both Mexico and the U.S. in international play to his first professional contract.
Charleston Battery striker Augustine Williams is among the USL Championship's top goal scorers this season. He has been one of the few bright spots in an otherwise forgettable season for the soccer club.
Gene Sapakoff column: Charleston minor league baseball history has been fun but with mostly without dominant teams on the field, until the Tampa Bay Rays showed up
Former Citadel star Rodney Hancock, College of Charleston record-setter Brett Spivey and longtime West Ashley youth coach Tim Linker form the Charleston Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2022
The U.S. Open Cup is a national soccer competition open to both professional and amateur teams, and is usually dominated by squads from Major League Soccer.
After a hopeful spell in early June of a win and two draws in four matches, the Charleston Battery have slumped to five straight losses, the last three by shutout.
The Charleston Battery begins the second half of its USL season on July 9, and the club has made some moves to bolster the roster after what club chairman Rob Salvatore called a "disappointing" first half.
Steve Arrington, Rodney Hancock, Michael Kohn, Mike Cisco, Brett Spivey and Chris Lemonis are the candidates for the Charleston Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2022 with fan voting open until July 24
Former Atlanta area high school standout Ryan Spikes turned down Tennessee to sign with Tampa Bay and is off to a good start in his first full season of professional baseball.
Gene Sapakoff column: All-Star Games, World Series, shiny stats - a South Carolina Lowcountry trio blazed a Major League Baseball path that will be hard to match
The Charleston Battery plays its only midweek home game of the season amid a stretch of three matches in a one-week span on June 29 against Atlanta United 2.
Gene Sapakoff column: Jared Bednar, the head coach that just led the Colorado Avalanche to an NHL title, got his coaching start in South Carolina, where he was also a team leader as a Stingrays player
The Charleston RiverDogs' 25th season at Riley Park is a good time to celebrate a lot of baseball and zaniness, with guest appearances by Hank Aaron, Gamecocks, Tigers, Tim Tebow and bobblehead presidential candidates.
Whatever the Charleston Battery has lacked in victories this season, the club has certainly made up for in drama in recent matches.
Gene Sapakoff column: Riley Park – aka The Joe – has been home of the Charleston RiverDogs for 25 seasons (and part of another season for The Citadel). Here's the to-do list priority.
There's an elite shortstop in the making at Riley Park as Carson Williams shows why he's one of the Tampa Bay Rays' top prospects
Gene Sapakoff column: The Charleston RiverDogs' Shane Sasaki toured the U.S. trying to find a minor league baseball job, and now the Tampa Bay Rays’ farmhand leads pro baseball in most base-stealing attempts without being caught.
The soccer pitch at Patriots Point holds a lot of memories for Zach Prince, who spent his college and professional careers there playing for College of Charleston and the Charleston Battery.
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