ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves have fired manager Fredi Gonzalez, who couldn’t survive the worst record in the majors. Braves general manager John Coppolella confirmed the firing of Gonzalez, in his sixth season. The numbers for the Braves are dismal: they have lost two straight and eight of 10, have baseball’s worst record at 9-28 and already are 13…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)–USC Basketball’s best is now part of the State of South Carolina’s best. B-J McKie headlines this year’s new class of South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame inductees. The ceremony taking place Monday. McKie sets the USC school scoring record and helped the Gaemcocks win their only SEC Championshop almost 20 years ago. The Irmo High School All…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– The Lexington County Blowfish will soon be heard on the airwaves of radio. The Blowfish announced that Z93.1 FM ‘The Lake’ will carry the live play-by-play broadcast for the team’s entire 56 game regular-season schedule. According to a release by the Lexington County Blowfish, in addition to the local play-by-play broadcast on Z93.1 FM, Blowfish Baseball enters…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Gamecock Baseball falls out of the top ten today, but not far. After dropping two out of three over the weekend to Texas A&M, Carolina drops from #9 to #11 in the New D One Baseball top 25 poll. The Gamecocks now go into the last week of the regular season with an outside chance of earning…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC) – Two-time defending champion South Carolina will have its shortest travel to the SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament in 12 years as the league announced Monday that the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C., will host the event March 1-5, 2017. It will be the league’s second time hosting the event in Greenville, the last coming in…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) — The University of South Carolina Men’s Golf team is the No. 3 seed at the 2016 NCAA Division I Tuscaloosa Regional, which runs May 16-18 at Ol’ Colony Golf Complex in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The Gamecocks are one of 13 teams at the Tuscaloosa Regional, which is hosted by the University of Alabama. The Gamecocks will…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) — For the third consecutive year, South Carolina will play in the Tallahassee Regional, facing American regular-season champ USF in the opening game of the weekend at 12 noon EDT on Friday at JoAnne Graf Field. South Carolina enters the tournament with a 36-21 record, two wins shy of matching last year’s 38 wins. The host…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) — Junior outfielder Dom Thompson-Williams went 3-for-3 with a pair of homers, three RBI and four runs scored and junior left-hander Josh Reagan worked 4.1 innings of relief to earn a win as third ranked South Carolina defeated second ranked Texas A&M 10-7 on Sunday afternoon at Founders Park. The Gamecocks are 38-13 and 17-9 in…
COLUMBIA, SC (Fireflies) — After erasing two separate deficits in the eighth and ninth innings, the Fireflies walked off against Asheville in the bottom of the tenth, winning the series finale, 5-4. It was the first walk-off win of the season for Columbia. Tourists reliever Alex Kenilvort (L, 0-1) took the mound for the start of the tenth and walked…
Kansas City Royals designated hitter Kendrys Morales, left, holds on to his interpreter and catching coach Pedro Grifol (28) while getting doused by teammate Salvador Perez, right, following a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, May 15, 2016. The Royals defeated the Braves 4-2 in 13 innings. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) KANSAS CITY,…
