Category: Sports

ESPN’s popular College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will be coming to Columbia next week.  The live three-hour show, which features Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, David Pollack and Samantha Steele, will be aired nationally beginning at 9 a.m. ET, Saturday, Oct. 6, on ESPNU, with the final two hours broadcast on ESPN.  The show will […]

Sixth ranked South Carolina erased a 10-point halftime deficit and scored four touchdowns in the second half on the way to a 38-17 victory over Kentucky on Saturday night at Commonwealth Stadium. The Gamecocks are 5-0 on the year and 3-0 in the SEC while the loss drops Kentucky to 1-4 overall and 0-2 in the league.  South Carolina owns […]

DeAndre Hopkins had a school-record 197 receiving yards on Saturday, catching 11 passes from Tajh Boyd to help the No. 17 Tigers beat Boston College 45-31. Hopkins had already set the Clemson single-game by catching 13 passes in a season-opening victory over Auburn, then tied another with three touchdowns against Ball State the next week.  Boyd threw for 367 yards […]

Jerodis Wiliams rushed for a career high 239 yards and two touchdowns and added a 100-yard kickoff return to power Furman past Western Carolina, 45-24, in Southern Conference football action Saturday afternoon at Paladin Stadium.  The win was the seventh straight for Furman (2-3, 1-1 SoCon) over Western Carolina (1-4, 0-3 SoCon) and ninth consecutive triumph over the Catamounts in […]

SATURDAY (9/29): #2 Oregon 51 Washington State 26 (De’Anthony Thomas and Kenjon Barner sandwiched touchdown runs around Avery Patterson’s 34-yard interception return for a score in a third quarter scoring blitz.) #18 Oregon State 38 Arizona 35 (Sean Mannion threw for a career-high 433 yards and hit Connor Hamlett on a 9-yard pass with 1:09 left for his third touchdown.) […]

In 96.3 WGOG’s Broadcast Game of the Week Friday, Daniel edged Wren 14-10 in Powdersville.  The game did not become the high scoring juggernaut expected, as both defenses played well, with the Lions getting the victory without the benefit of any second half points.  Clemson commit Jae’lon Oglesby garnered Player of the Game honors with 235 yards on 29 carries […]

Clemson All-American wide receiver Sammy Watkins will not make the trip to Boston College due to an abdominal virus. Additionally, second team offensive guard Kalon Davis pulled a hamstring on Thursday and also will miss the trip. It was announced earlier in the week that wide receiver Martavis Bryant would not travel due to a groin injury.  The Tigers hope […]

David Ross and Andrelton Simmons raced home on left fielder Bryan Peterson’s costly error, sending Tommy Hanson and the Atlanta Braves to a 6-2 victory over the Miami Marlins on Thursday night. Hanson allowed two runs, one earned, and six hits in 5 1/3 innings for his first win since July 30, also against Miami. The right-hander was 0-4 with […]

Fans in Baltimore cheered the return of the regular referees when the officials walked on the field Thursday ahead of last night’s game that Baltimore’s Ravens won over the Cleveland Browns 23-16. Just hours after the NFL’s lockout of the refs ended at midnight, the officiating crew got a round of applause as they walked on the field, and two […]

Looks like the hugely controversial ending to Monday night’s football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers really was the tipping point. The NFL and the referees’ union announced at midnight Thursday that a tentative deal had been reached to end the lockout that began in June and led to replacement refs officiating games in the first […]