WATE COLUMBIA (USC SID) – University of South Carolina women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley announced today the hiring of Jolette Law as an assistant coach. Law’s resume includes five seasons as a head coach at Illinois, and the Florence, S.C., native most recently spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Tennessee. “I am excited to welcome Jolette to…
GREENVILLE, SC (Fireflies) – Michael Paez homered twice and the Fireflies sunk Greenville on Thursday, 7-2. Columbia won two of three in the series and are now in first place for the first time since April 10. The Fireflies have a half game lead over Greenville with three games left in the first half and now control their own destiny….
ERIN, Wis. (ESPN) — Jordan Spieth figured something had to shake him and Dustin Johnson from their putting problems during the first round of the U.S. Open. “We’ll be on the practice green; we might have a pillow-fight putting contest, just to see if we can spark anything,” Spieth said. The most recent U.S. Open champions looked anything but Thursday…
Former Gamecock closer Tyler Johnson will join his old teammates Alex Destino and John Parke in the Chicago White Sox farm system. All three were chose by the Chicago team from the South Side between the second and third days of the MLB Draft this week. As Johnson begins his pro journey Friday in Arizona, the nerves are a little…
Chris Singleton, whose mother was one of the victims in the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting in 2015, was selected on Day 3 of the Major League Baseball draft Wednesday, going with the final pick of the 19th round to the Chicago Cubs. Singleton just wrapped up his junior season at Charleston Southern, where he was an outfielder. He started…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) – Freshman outfielder Carlos Cortes has been named to the 2017 Perfect Game Freshman All-America Team it was announced on Thursday. Cortes hit .286 (48-for-168) in his first season with the Garnet & Black with a team-high 12 homers as well as 41 RBIs. This is the second Freshman All-America honor for Cortes, who was also…
CLEMSON, S.C. – Logan Davidson was named Perfect Game’s First-Team Freshman All-America shortstop on Thursday. Davidson was one of only two Tigers to play and start all 63 games in 2017, as he hit .286 with 56 runs, nine doubles, 12 homers, 41 RBIs, a .388 on-base percentage, 42 walks and 10 steals. He became the first Tiger shortstop to hit…
ERIN, Wis. (AP) — Dustin Johnson wrapped up his final day practice round for the U.S. Open just as the sky began to rumble and the horn sounded to stop play at Erin Hills. The timing couldn’t have been better for the world’s No. 1 player, as it has been the past two weeks. As much as he hates missing…
Former Gamecock Wes Bryan is set to compete in his first ever U.S. Open Thursday in Erin Hills, Wisconsin. The Dutch Fork High grad is now two months removed from winning his first PGA Tour event at the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, but now the stakes are raised for the 21st-ranked golfer in the world as he looks to…
CONWAY – Coastal Carolina added four names – Will Latcham, Jordan Gore, Wood Myers and Andrew Beckwith – to the list of those selected in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft on Wednesday. Latcham (RHP) was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 17th round (514th overall pick). Gore (SS) was taken by the Minnesota Twins with the first…
