Category: Sports

Lamont Paris, who has been a part of nine NCAA Division I Tournaments and 17 twenty-win seasons as a college head and assistant coach, has been named the University of South Carolina’s 33rd head coach, Director of Athletics Ray Tanner announced Thursday.  Paris, 47, becomes the first African-American head coach in the history of the Gamecock men’s basketball program.

No. 4 Vanderbilt scored four runs in the fifth inning and five more in the seventh in a 10-0 win over the University of South Carolina baseball team on Thursday night (March 24) at Founders Park.  Due to forecasted inclement weather this weekend, the Clemson vs. Pittsburgh series at Charles L. Cost Field was altered. The series, which now features […]

No. 20 Clemson scored five runs in the second inning and sophomore right-hander Ricky Williams pitched 5.0 scoreless innings in the Tigers’ 10-2 victory over Winthrop at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Wednesday night. The Tigers, who took a 1-0 lead in the season series, improved to 16-5, while the Eagles fell to 5-14. The two teams conclude their season series […]

RJ Barrett scored 30 points and the New York Knicks made 20 3-pointers to beat Charlotte 121-106 on Wednesday night, snapping the Hornets’ five-game winning streak.   Jeremi Grant scored 21 points and the slumping Detroit Pistons routed the Atlanta Hawks 122-101 on Wednesday night.  

The first full day of the NCAA tournament featured eight games decided by single digits, six lower-seeded teams advancing, four double-digit seeds winning, three overtime games and one of the biggest upsets in NCAA tournament history.  And the weekend didn’t slow down from there. The Sweet 16, which begins Thursday in San Antonio and San Francisco, features a 15-seed for […]

Coastal Carolina scored 10 runs in the first inning and five runs in the third inning in its 16-7 victory over No. 20 Clemson at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Tuesday night. The Chanticleers, who took a 1-0 lead in the season series, improved to 12-7-1, while the Tigers dropped to 15-5. The two teams conclude their season series at Coastal […]

Trae Young had 45 points and eight assists in his first game at MSG since becoming a villain to New York Knicks fans, leading a late surge that gave the Atlanta Hawks a 117-111 victory Tuesday night.

 Martin Necas and Tony DeAngelo scored on Carolina’s slumping power play, and the Hurricanes stopped a four-game slide by topping the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Tuesday night.

After 14 seasons in which he became the best quarterback in franchise history, Matt Ryan is moving on from the Atlanta Falcons.  Atlanta traded Ryan on Monday to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for a 2022 third-round draft pick, the team announced.  The Falcons moved quickly to add Ryan’s possible successor, agreeing to a two-year contract with quarterback Marcus Mariota, […]

South Carolina and Chattanooga coach Lamont Paris have finalized a five-year deal to make him the school’s next men’s basketball head coach, sources told ESPN on Monday.  The deal still requires the formality of board approval later this week.  Paris has been at Chattanooga for five seasons, going 87-72 during that span. After his team struggled in 2018 and ’19, […]