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South Carolina women’s basketball team is the best in the NCAA Tournament — regardless of gender
Whether you call it irony or coincidence, the best team playing during college basketball’s biggest moment during a month that’s dedicated to the history of women makes too much sense. Yes, we all think of the men’s game when we think of March Madness. And yes, the men’s game brings in all the money...
All hail, Cock Commander!
Rule 1 of naming anything college mascot related: never give the public any say on the matter....
Can we talk about the most dominant team in sports right now?
There’s an outlier on the South Carolina women’s basketball schedule. It happened nearly two months ago in Columbia, Missouri to begin Southeastern Conference play against Mizzou. The Gamecocks were at full strength while the Tigers were far from it. An Omicron outbreak knocked out six players, leav...
Recruiting During A Pandemic Sucks
How do you recruit during a global pandemic?...
Here's A Fabulous One-Handed Catch That Defies Gravity And Our Collective Understanding Of The Human Body
Odell Beckham is weeping! He’s packing up and skipping town! This reception by South Carolina’s Bryan Edwards was, frankly, too freakin’ good for him to bear. The defender is all over Edwards on this 19-yard pass, but naturally, he managed to snag it with one hand behind the head. Taylor Zarzour on ...
Will Muschamp Went Ballistic On "Gutless" Officials After Crucial Missed Penalty
South Carolina dropped a tough one against Florida yesterday, giving up three touchdowns to the Gators in the fourth quarter to lose 38-27. Their bid for a second straight top-ten upset unraveled in frustrating fashion, as officials seemed to miss clear penalties on two of the biggest plays of the g...
Rodrigo Blankenship's Missed Field Goal Was The Anticlimactic Ending South Carolina-Georgia Deserved
In a game that could not have gone anymore haywire if it tried, South Carolina-Georgia still found a way to end in a rather anticlimactic, though still totally unexpected, way: a missed field goal from the usually reliable Rodrigo Blankenship....
South Carolina Commit Zia Cooke Had An Incredibly Nasty 43-Point Game
Zia Cooke, a South Carolina commit and ESPN’s seventh-ranked prospect from the 2019 class, put on a show Saturday, dropping a career-high 43 points in the fifth game of her senior season. The highlight reel from the game featured pretty much everything you’d want from a high school mixtape: step-ba...
Akron And South Carolina Will Play The Most Meaningless Game Of The College Football Season
On Wednesday, the University of South Carolina was compelled to issue a clarification regarding the tickets it was planning to give away for this Saturday’s home game against Akron at Williams-Brice Stadium. Yes, the upper level tickets were indeed free as reported but no, and this part was importan...
Will Muschamp, Self-Proclaimed Molder Of Young Men, Didn't Talk To His Players About Voting
College football fetishizes the roles of its coaches as more than just coaches. They’re Teachers of Student-Athletes and Molders of Men. Always with the molding of men! In reality, the coaching pool is a mixture of bloated, irritable hicks and ancient, anal-retentive freaks. (Both categories are ove...
Drew Lock Throws Pass To Fallen Receiver, Results In Pick-Six
Saturday’s game between Missouri and South Carolina was a meteorological shitshow. Nothing in the game really encapsulated just how bad the rain in Columbia was like Missouri quarterback Drew Lock failing to see that his intended target on a screen pass had slipped and fallen, and throwing the ball ...
Asshole Will Muschamp Blames Alarming Maryland Football Report On "Gutless" Former Coaches And Lousy Players
Here is South Carolina head football coach Will Muschamp—a meathead sack of shit—commenting on reports that the Maryland football program run by D.J. Durkin was toxic and subjected players to intimidation, humiliation, and extreme physical exhaustion, factors that may have contributed to the death o...
The Dawn Staley-Missouri Beef Is Finally Over, And It Will Cost Mizzou $50,000
South Carolina women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley settled her lawsuit against Missouri athletic director Jim Sterk on Thursday. The decision comes four months after Sterk went on a radio show and accused the Gamecocks coach of promoting a hostile fan atmosphere—back in January, when the two ...
South Carolina Coach Sues Missouri AD For Defamation Over Fan Spitting Comments
First reported by WISTV’s Caroline Hecker, South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley filed a defamation of character lawsuit against Missouri athletic director Jim Sterk on Thursday....
Missouri Athletic Director Says South Carolina Fans Spit On Women's Basketball Players, Used "The N-Word"
The South Carolina and Missouri women’s basketball teams have played and split two heated games this month, and in each match-up, fans from both sides have been accused of increasingly shitty and racist behavior. In the first game, a Missouri fan reportedly called USC players “thugs.” In this past S...
South Carolina Admits Former Louisville Recruit Brian Bowen, Who Will Try To Play Next Year
Former Louisville commit Brian Bowen, whose alleged bribery-aided recruitment was at the center of the FBI investigation that cost Rick Pitino his job, has been admitted to South Carolina, where he’ll try to play if the NCAA decides to reinstate him....
South Carolina Women's Basketball Team Declines White House Invite To "Focus On The Season Ahead"
The South Carolina women’s basketball team, last season’s champions, have declined an invitation to visit the White House tomorrow due to what coach Dawn Staley described as a scheduling conflict and a desire to focus on their current play:...
Lovely Act Of Kindness And Sportsmanship Marred By Bullcrap Football Game
Tennessee and South Carolina played an ugly, low-wattage football game today, combining for one touchdown, six field goals, and a botched extra point, in a contest that didn’t even have the decency to include a couple goddamn turnovers. The Gamecocks came out on top after scoring 12 unanswered secon...
Sportswriters Whine About Kid Reporter Asking Legitimate Question At Press Conference
In South Carolina coach Frank Martin’s postgame press conference last night, preteen Sports Illustrated Kids reporter Max Bonnstetter asked an interesting and well-formulated question—one that, somehow, upset a handful of “adult” journalists:...