Author: Gary Butts

Clemson baseball Head Coach Erik Bakich announced on June 28, 2022 that Jimmy Belanger joined the staff as assistant coach and pitching coach. Belanger spent the last three seasons at Florida State, mentoring many of the best pitchers in the ACC.  Belanger, 35, has been a full-time assistant coach for 13 seasons, with stops at Monmouth (2010-12), Maryland (2013-16), Kentucky […]

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Tuesday a new football scheduling model that will go into effect beginning with the 2023 season.  The new model is based on a 3-5-5 structure whereby each team will play three primary opponents annually and face the other 10 league teams twice during the four-year cycle, once at home and once on the road. The […]

South Carolina junior Aliyah Boston became the University’s first winner of the Honda Cup, which honors the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. It caps a season during which Boston was the unanimous National Player of the Year and the NCAA Women’s Final Four Most Outstanding Player after leading the Gamecocks to the 2022 National Championship.

The Walter Camp Football Foundation announced today that Clemson defensive tackle Bryan Bresee and linebacker Trenton Simpson have been named as first-team Preseason All-Americans. Offensive tackle Jordan McFadden was named as a second-team Preseason All-American in addition.

Former Panthers linebacker and NFL Defensive Player of the Year (2013) Luke Kuechly will be joining the team’s radio broadcast team this fall, the organization announced Monday.  The team revealed that Kuechly will call seven home games during the 2022 season, including their season-opener against Cleveland.  This comes after Kuechly had rejoined the organization in 2020 as a pro scout, […]

Los Angeles Dodgers Chris Taylor had three hits, including the go-ahead double in the 11th inning, lifting the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-3 win over the Braves on Sunday night.

The last team to get into the NCAA baseball tournament was the last team standing.  Ole Miss scored twice on wild pitches in a three-run eighth inning and the Rebels won their first national baseball title, sweeping Oklahoma in the Men’s College World Series finals with a 4-2 victory Sunday.

After years of playoff disappointments, the Colorado Avalanche are back atop hockey’s mountain after dethroning the two-time defending champions.  Behind a goal and an assist from Nathan MacKinnon, the Avalanche won the Stanley Cup for the third time in franchise history and first in more than two decades by beating the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in Game 6 of the […]

Chase Elliott salvaged a crummy day for Hendrick Motorsports and interrupted a potential Toyota rout by winning the rain-drenched race at Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday night.  Elliott recovered from an early issue that dropped him deep into the field to take the lead with 38 laps remaining and hold off three Joe Gibbs Racing drivers for his second Cup victory […]