FILE – Carolina Panthers special teams coach Bruce DeHaven, right, talks with players during NFL football minicamp in Charlotte, N.C. DeHaven has decided to step down from his position and move into an advisory role with the team while continuing his battle with prostate cancer. The team announced Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016, that Thomas McGaughey has been promoted to special…
COLUMBIA, SC (Fireflies) – Tyler Moore muscled a single to center field and plated J.C. Rodriguez in the bottom of the 12th inning to give the Fireflies the victory, 3-2, over the Grasshoppers on Sunday night. Columbia took three out of four from Greensboro and earned its third walk-off win of the year. The game lasted four hours and 22…
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Geno Auriemma could only smile after his U.S. women’s basketball team dominated another opponent. It wasn’t so much the final score of the game, but the coach was really excited about the record number of assists the Americans dished out. Tina Charles and Brittney Griner each scored 18 points and the U.S. had 40 assists…
CLEMSON, S.C. (CAC) — Former Clemson athlete Patricia Mamona finished sixth in the women’s triple jump at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mamona set a personal best and broke her own Portuguese national record with a leap of 14.65 meters (48-0.75) on her fifth attempt Sunday. Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen won the gold medal. Mamona, a two-time NCAA…
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL. (USC SID) – Gamecock great Natasha Hastings will run for an Olympic gold medal Monday, as she finished third overall in the women’s 400m Sunday night with a season-best time of 49.90. It will be her first opportunity at winning an individual medal, she previously won gold in 2008 with the 4x400m relay. Running in the second heat, Hastings…
File BOSTON (AP) — Mookie Betts wasn’t pleased with his recent swings at the plate. A little tweaking and he joined elite company in Red Sox history. Betts hit three home runs and drove in a career-best eight runs, joining Hall of Famer Ted Williams as the only Red Sox players in over 100 years with a pair of three-homer…
SILVIS, Ill. (AP) — For all the late pars and the closing run of 46 holes without a bogey, Ryan Moore thought the key to his victory Sunday in the John Deere Classic was a 24-foot birdie putt on the fourth hole. It moved him to 20 under and kept him two strokes ahead of Morgan Hoffmann, who was about…
CLEMSON, S.C. (CAC) — The Clemson men’s soccer team hosted UAB Saturday night in the Tigers’ first exhibition contest of the preseason. Clemson won 2-1 at Historic Riggs Field after a full 90 minutes and two, ten minute extra periods. The Tigers jumped out to the lead in the second half after a clinical finish just outside the box when…
Ben Martin tees off on sixth hole during the John Deere Classic golf tournament Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Silvis, Ill. (Meg McLaughlin/The Dispatch via AP) SILVIS, Ill. (AP) — Ryan Moore shot two more rounds of 6-under 65 on Saturday to take the third-round lead in the John Deere Classic, finishing at 8:25 p.m. in nearly dark conditions. After…
Tampa Bay Rays’ Brad Miller hits a home run as New York Yankees catcher Austin Romine, left, looks on during the sixth inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun) NEW YORK (AP) — Brad Miller is quietly becoming one of baseball’s better power hitters. Miller homered twice off Masahiro…
