South Carolina Basketball

League opponents for the 2023-24 college basketball season were announced by the SEC on Monday.  The Gamecocks will have home and homes with Georgia, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss and Tennessee. Carolina will host additional home games at Colonial Life Arena against Florida, Kentucky, LSU and Vanderbilt. The Gamecocks will travel to Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn and Texas A&M.  Conference play […]

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MARIE CLINKSCALES TURPIN

Mountain Rest, SC — Marie Clinkscales Turpin, 82, wife of the late Archie F. Turpin, of 150 Turpin Road, Mountain Rest, passed away Sunday, June 25, 2023, at Oconee Memorial Hospital.   A native of Asheville, NC, Mrs. Turpin was the daughter of the late Samuel and Gertrude Hattie Snipes Clinkscales.   Mrs. Turpin is survived by her daughters: Cynthia […]

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Atlanta Braves

Matt Olson hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth inning and the Atlanta Braves held on for another wild 7-6 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday. The Braves, who snapped the Reds’ longest winning streak in 66 years at 12 games with a 7-6 win on Saturday, have won 17 of their last 20.

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College World Series Baseball

Florida had been involved in more close games than any other team at the Men’s College World Series this year.  That changed in a big way Sunday when the Gators unleashed an offensive barrage of historic proportions.  Florida scored the most runs in an MCWS game and came up one short of the record for largest margin of victory in […]

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Nascar

Ross Chastain has been criticized as reckless and too aggressive, a driver seen as giving no respect and not deserving any from competitors.  His hard-driving style paid off Sunday night as Chastain held off Martin Truex Jr. to win the Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway, his first win in over a year and the third NASCAR Cup Series victory of […]

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CONNIE KAREN SANDERS

Seneca, SC — Connie Karen Sanders, 67, of 202 Four Oak Circle, Seneca, passed away Friday, June 23, 2023, at Greenville Memorial Hospital.   A native of Murphy, NC, Mrs. Sanders was the daughter of the late Howard Scroggs and Margret Wood. Connie had a love for animals and plants and was of the Christian Faith.   Mrs. Sanders is […]

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PATRICIA CONWAY

Stone Mountain, Georgia – Patricia Carmichael Conway, 87, wife of the late Bobby “Bob” Joe Conway, passed away on Tuesday, June 20th, 2023, at Northside Hospital Gwinnett.   Patricia was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was the daughter of the late Eugene Carmichael and Nancy Ruth Clark Jerrell.  Patricia worked in the accounting department of Smith-Kline Laboratories and had a […]

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NBA Draft

 The Victor Wembanyama era has officially begun, as the Spurs made him the No. 1 overall pick in Thursday night’s NBA draft. Wembanyama, a 7-foot-5 French phenom with an 8-foot wingspan, walked across the stage at the Barclays Center in New York to shake NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s hand and formally mark the start of his new career.  The Charlotte […]

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College World Series

“That is one of the greatest moments in my entire life, what happened on the field tonight,” LSU’s second-year coach said after his team’s 2-0, 11-inning victory over No. 1 national seed Wake Forest clinched a spot in the MCWS finals.  LSU’s Tommy White hit Wake Forest’s Camden Minacci’s first pitch into the left-field seats to set up an all-SEC […]

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