Category: Sports

In 96.3 WGOG’s High School Football Broadcast Game of the week Friday, the Seneca Bobcats opened Western AAA play with a convincing 56-13 win over Walhalla at Bobcat Stadium.  Seneca quarterback Spencer Brothers was 6-0f-7 passing for 101 yards and two touchdowns, but most of the damage was done on the ground thanks to Player of the Game Marquis Arnold. […]

With both sides remaining far apart, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Thursday (September 13th) that the league will lock out the players on Sunday when the current labor deal expires if a new deal isn’t reached. If there is a lockout, it will be the NHL’s fourth labor stoppage since 1992. The last one caused the cancellation of the entire […]

Clemson Baseball Head Coach Jack Leggett announced the addition of 19 players, who have already begun classes, on Thursday. Eighteen of the 19 players are eligible for the 2013 season. The newcomers include three players who were selected in the 2012 Major League draft. Infielder Tyler Krieger (Johns Creek, GA) was a 35th-round draft pick of the Seattle Mariners, infielder/catcher […]

The Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears 23-10 Thursday night at home on Lambeau Field, writing another chapter in the NFL’s most storied rivalry. The most memorable play of the game was a fake field goal by the Packers late in the second quarter, in which punter Tim Masthay flipped the ball to backup tight end Tom Crabtree, who […]

The Southeastern Conference 2012 Football Legends Class includes 14 former SEC stars who have made a name for themselves as great athletes on the playing field. The conference is announcing the legends from its Eastern Division schools today and the Western Division schools on Friday. Include in this year’s class is former South Carolina Gamecock Ko Simpson, a two-year starter […]

Furman director of athletics Gary Clark announced Wednesday the addition of both Gardner-Webb and Coastal Carolina to the Paladins’ 2013 and 2014 football schedules.  Furman will kick off the 2013 season on Aug. 31 at Gardner-Webb and will play at Coastal Carolina on Sept. 7, the following week.  

University of Connecticut men’s head basketball coach Jim Calhoun is retiring. The 70-year-old Hall of Famer was UConn’s coach for 26 years, winning three national titles and 625 games.  Add to that his earlier 14-year tenure at Northeastern, and Calhoun has a total of 873 wins in his career.

Seneca High School’s volleyball team defeated Emerald on Wednesday for their first Western AAA victory of the season. Dana Shirley’s Bobcat team collected 18 kills and six aces. Elsewhere, Walhalla fell to Palmetto 3-2 for their first region loss.

Stung by a 47-45 triple overtime loss to Coastal Carolina, the Furman Paladins face a tremendous challenge this Saturday when they make the short, 35-mile trip to Clemson to take on the nationally 11th-ranked Tigers in the renewal of one of the state’s oldest football rivalries. Kickoff is set for 3:00 p.m. at Memorial Stadium.  Furman (0-2) will need a […]

Two members of the “Fierce Five” U.S. women’s gymnastics team that won the team gold medal at the London Olympics last month were injured with minutes of each other while on the Kellogg’s Tour of Champions on Sunday. The Yahoo! Sports blog Fourth-Place Medal reported Tuesday that McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman both fell while performing on the uneven bars. […]