Category: Sports

The third Sunday of the NFL’s regular season brought another round of complaints from players, coaches and fans about the officiating being done by the replacement referees as the regular refs continued to be locked out by the league.  On Sunday, the NFL players’ union sent an open letter to team owners calling for an end to the lockout that […]

The time has been set for the Clemson at Boston College football game to be played on Saturday, September 29 at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, MA. The game is set to kick off at 3:30 PM and will be broadcast on ESPN2.

The South Carolina Gamecocks (4-0, 2-0 SEC) moved up to No. 6 in the AP college football poll following a 31-10 dismantling of Missouri (2-2, 0-2 SEC) on Saturday afternoon. It’s Carolina’s highest AP ranking since they checked in at No. 6 after defeating North Carolina in 2007 to improve to 6-1 on the season. It’s just the fifth time […]

EJ Manuel threw for a career-high 380 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another 102 yards as fourth-ranked Florida State rallied from a two-touchdown deficit to defeat No. 10 Clemson 49-37 on Saturday night.  The biggest Atlantic Coast Conference game in years was a wild one for a while. Then it was Florida State’s offense pulling away from Clemson […]

Junior quarterback Connor Shaw threw for 249 yards and two touchdowns and completed a school-record 20 consecutive passes to finish the game as he led No. 7/8 South Carolina to a 31-10 victory over Missouri on Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium.  Shaw’s 20 consecutive completions are tied for the second most in SEC history with Ole Miss’ Kent Austin, who had […]

Hank McCloud rushed for a career high 78 yards and three touchdowns to power Furman to a 31-21 win over Presbyterian in football action Saturday afternoon at Bailey Memorial Stadium.  McCloud, a sophomore from Tampa, Fla., scored on runs of 45, 13, and 7 yards in the first half to help Furman (1-3) build a 24-0 halftime lead en route […]

SATURDAY 9/22: # 3 Oregon 49 #22 Arizona State 0 (The Ducks’ first shutout in conference play since a 35-0 victory over Stanford on Oct. 25, 2003.) #4 Florida State 49 #10 Clemson 37 (EJ Manuel threw for a career-high 380 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another 102 yards as fourth-ranked Florida State rallied from a two-touchdown deficit.) […]

ESPN is reporting that a South Carolina police officer has been fired after posting details of a traffic stop of Clemson coach Dabo Swinney on a University of South Carolina message board.  CPl. Michael McClatchy was fired Monday for using company equipment to detail his version of the events, Pickens (S.C.) Police Department chief Rodney Gregory said in a statement […]

In 96.3 WGOG’s High School Football Game of the Week on Friday, the 4th-ranked Belton-Honea Path Bears shut-out the Walhalla Razorbacks 58-0 in Western AAA play.  The Bears proved again why they are one of the best teams in the Palmetto State.  BHP’s signal-caller, Matt Williams, was our Player of the Game.  Williams played until early in the third quarter, […]

The Washington Nationals and the Cincinnati Reds Thursday became the first Major League Baseball teams to clinch playoff spots. The Nationals assured themselves of at least a wild card berth with a 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday night, while the Reds assured theirs by beating the Chicago Cubs 5-3 earlier in the day.  Friday night in Philadelphia, the […]