Author: Gary Butts

After completing his official visit, five-star linebacker Sammy Brown, the top-ranked inside linebacker in the 2024 cycle, committed to Clemson on Monday.  Brown, No. 17 overall in the 2024 ESPN 300 and a product of Jefferson High (Georgia), becomes the highest-ranked member of the Tigers’ class, which sits at No. 15 by ESPN.

South Carolina learned Monday afternoon it’ll be on the road at Florida this weekend for the best-of-three Super Regional.  The Gators defeated Texas Tech, 6-0, in their decisive regional contest. Had Texas Tech won, USC would have been host to the Red Raiders.  The Gamecocks (42-19) look to continue the momentum of their three-game sweep of Central Connecticut, N.C. State, […]

Clemson’s Saturday night heartbreak carried into Sunday afternoon.  The Tigers, the No. 4 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, were eliminated from their own regional Sunday against the Charlotte 49ers 3-2, a little more than 16 hours after a 14th inning 6-5 marathon loss to Tennessee.  Clemson end their first campaign under Erik Bakich 44-19.  South Carolina’s road to Omaha […]

Eddie Rosario hit a grand slam off Miguel Castro with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Braves rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-5 on Sunday.

The Heat tied the NBA Finals and had to overcome a monster 41-point effort from Nikola Jokic to do it. Gabe Vincent scored 23 points, Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo each had 21 and Heat beat the Denver Nuggets 111-108 in Game 2 on Sunday night.

 Kyle Busch held off Denny Hamlin through a series of late restarts to win the chaotic, caution-filled NASCAR Cup Series race at World Wide Technology Raceway just outside of St. Louis on Sunday.

Nikola Jokic got a triple-double in his finals debut, Jamal Murray scored 26 points and the Nuggets had little trouble with the cold-shooting Miami Heat on the way to a 104-93 win in Game 1 on Thursday night.

A duo of Clemson Tigers and South Carolina Gamecocks all earned All-America honors Thursday, as announced by Collegiate Baseball.  Clemson sophomore infielder Billy Amick and junior lefthander/first baseman Caden Grice were both named first-team All-America, the 65th and 66th All-Americans in program history, and 30th and 31st first-team All-Americans.South Carolina catcher Cole Messina and outfielder Ethan Petry were both team […]

The SEC won’t be moving to a nine-game conference schedule after all. But it will be going forward in 2024 without divisions.  Commissioner Greg Sankey told reporters Thursday that the league has approved a temporary eight-game conference schedule for the 2024 football season when it welcomes Texas and Oklahoma to the league.  Sankey said that the league will continue exploring […]

Ozzie Albies hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in a three-run fifth inning, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Wednesday to deny the Athletics’ bid for their first three-game winning streak this season.  Braves: RHP Charlie Morton (5-5, 3.59 ERA) faces visiting Arizona in the opener of a three-game series in Atlanta on Friday. Morton hasn’t beat […]