Ten years after their National Basketball Association (NBA) debut in 2004, the Charlotte Bobcats are no more.
The team isn’t going anywhere (sadly), it’s just claiming the name of the expansion franchise that debuted in Charlotte in 1988 and played there through 2002 – the “Hornets.” That name became available a few months ago when the [...]
R.I.P., Bobcats
Best Of Luck To Melvin Ingram
San Diego Chargers linebacker Melvin Ingram tore his ACL earlier this week at an organized training activity event for the team. Ingram, readers will recall, was an All-American defensive end for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks in 2011.
And while the Hamlet, North Carolina native had a whale of a season that year, he’s probably [...]
John McCain’s Football Bill
U.S. Sen. John McCain (RINO-Arizona) is proposing legislation which would subject NFL teams with taxpayer-subsidized stadiums to new television regulations. Specifically, these teams would be banned from “blacking out” games – or not televising games in local markets that have not been sold out.
With the average NFL ticket running nearly $80 last year, fans living [...]
SC Native Vies For Cowboy Cheerleading Squad
As we contemplate the decline of the American Republic, there are a few holdovers from better managed eras that provide us the occasional comfort. These are points of longitudinal and latitudinal certainty on a cultural graph that has veered wildly into the abaxial – constants in a shifting desert.
Among those points? Medium rare bacon cheeseburgers, [...]
Football At USC-Upstate?
The University of South Carolina Upstate – a totally superfluous government-run college that already boasts a bloated, scandal ridden athletics department – is in talks with former North Carolina State University athletics director Lee Fowler.
Why? According to our sources, the school wants to pay Fowler a high six-figure salary to become its next athletics director [...]
Dabo Swinney Got “Four-Bombed”
When he’s not receiving traffic tickets, Clemson University head football coach Dabo “Dat Boy” Swinney is a likable guy. He loves the fans – especially the children – and is always willing to pose for pictures.
Two young students recently took advantage of his affable “awww shucksness” when they posed for the following picture with the Clemson [...]
On Gay Athletes
This week saw quite the social upheaval in professional sports as a pair of athletes from opposite ends of the “values spectrum” found themselves in the news …
On the one hand, the New York Jets released quarterback Tim Tebow - an overt “Jesus Freak” – after failing to give him anything resembling a chance in the [...]
Tim Tebow Cut By Jets
The Tim Tebow experiment in New York is over … to the extent it ever really began.
Days after drafting West Virginia’s Geno Smith in the second round of the 2013 NFL draft, the New York Jets waived Tebow … throwing the former Heisman Trophy winner’s professional prospects in jeopardy.
Tebow – who won the Heisman in [...]
DeAndre Hopkins Drafted In First Round
Reports that he trashed his hotel room in a most unsanitary manner at the NFL combine earlier this year did not cost former Clemson University wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins after all …
The speedy wideout – who holds the Tigers’ career receiving yardage (3,009) and touchdown reception records (27) – was selected in the first round [...]
Let The Big Dogs Eat
In anticipation of next year’s Jadeveon Clowney derby, National Football League teams stocked up on offensive linemen in the 2013 NFL draft.
Three of the first four picks in the draft were offensive linemen – Central Michigan’s Eric Fisher (No. 1, Kansas City), Texas A&M’s Luke Joeckel (No. 2, Jacksonville) and Oklahoma’s Lane Johnson (No. 4, [...]
Marcus Lattimore: All Heart
There are a lot of formulaic stories out there about athletes overcoming adversity – stories in which intellectually lazy sportswriters reach for the old cliché about an athlete’s strongest muscle being “their heart.”
In Marcus Lattimore’s case, though, that cliché fits …
He is all heart.
We won’t bore our readers with a lengthy recapitulation of Lattimore’s legend, because [...]
Carolina And Clemson: Believe The Hype
Both the University of South Carolina and Clemson University’s football programs are ranked in the Top Ten of an “early preseason” poll released this week by Fox Sports. Head coach Steve Spurrier’s Gamecocks – one of only four programs in the nation to put together back-to-back 11-win campaigns – are ranked No. 8, while Clemson checks [...]
