CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Maybe all the Carolina Panthers needed was to play someone other than the Denver Broncos. The league’s top-scoring offense from a year ago returned to form Sunday. Cam Newton threw for 353 yards and four touchdowns, and the Panthers overcame four turnovers to beat the San Francisco 49ers 46-27 in their home opener. The Panthers racked…
UPDATE: The North Carolina State Highway Patrol has released the names of the four that died in Saturday’s collision on US74 by-pass near Hamlet, N.C. The driver has been identified as 43-year-old Brian Andre Kirkpatrick. The three passengers are identified as 21-year-old Devonte Gibson, 19-year-old Tito Hamilton Jr., and 8-year-old Darice Hicks. RICHMOND, N.C. – Four passengers are dead and forty-two others are injured…
Louisville surged to No. 3 in The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, matching the best ranking in school history, and Ohio State moved up to No. 2 behind Alabama. The Crimson Tide received 50 first-place votes after coming from 21 points down to win 48-43 at Mississippi on Saturday. The Buckeyes moved up one spot after an emphatic…
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TIGERVILLE (Newberry) – On a night when the Newberry offense couldn’t seem to sustain a rhythm, Raleigh Yeldell made sure the hundreds of Wolves fans in attendance went home happy. The senior signal-caller marched his troops 80 yards in 12 plays for the winning score, with Yeldell slipping two tackles before leaping into the end zone with 1:04 remaining. But the victory wasn’t…
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Williams-Brice Stadium officially welcomed Will Muschamp for his first Saturday with the Gamecocks, as his new starting quarterback, freshman Brandon McIlwain, helped lead South Carolina to a 20-15 win over East Carolina. The USC offense scored 17 quick points in the first quarter while the defense forced three turnovers in the red zone to earn their second win in three…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) – The South Carolina volleyball team ended the non-conference season with a pair of wins Saturday to close out the Gamecock Invitational, running its season record to 12-0. The Gamecocks beat William & Mary (6-7) in four sets and swept Gardner-Webb (8-5). Mikayla Shields earned tournament MVP after totaling 21 in the two Saturday matches and 40 for…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CAC) – In a six-goal shootout, the sixth-ranked Clemson men’s soccer team and 17th-ranked Virgina each earned a hard-fought, 3-3 tie in their second ACC matches of the year. The Tigers move to 3-1-1 (0-1-1 ACC). The match started quickly in favor of Virginia when senior forward Salandy-Defore capitalized on a Clemson defensive miscue to give the Cavaliers…
WILBERFORCE, Ohio (Benedict Athletics) – The Benedict College Tigers got a modern-era school-record 235 yards rushing from George Myers Jr. and the Tigers rolled over Central State University 42-6 in an SIAC football contest on Saturday afternoon in McPherson Stadium. The Tigers, now 2-1 in 2016 after going winless in 2015, controlled the ground game with 333 total rushing yards,…
