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South Carolina will retire four more jerseys in 2023
The recent retirements of Kip Bouknight's No. 14 and Jadeveon Clowney's No. 7 jersey will make it a total of six for the academic year 2022-03.
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Mailbag: Metro Conference counterfactual, Kenny McKinley, and the evolution of the Block-C logo
Plus, a message from beyond the digital grave from The Feathered Warrior.
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The deranged joys of being a youth sports referee
It's springtime. The flowers are blooming, and the youth soccer parents have been waiting all winter to verbally abuse me. I can't wait.
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The second life of 'Step to the Rear'
The year was 1968, and everyone -- football coaches, presidential candidates, easy listening artists, and car companies -- wanted a piece of 'Step to the Rear.'
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Dawn Staley's unlikely path to South Carolina
How a girl from the North Philly projects became one of the best in the world at two different occupations and decided to build a dynasty at South Carolina, of all places.
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I asked an AI to help me destroy the Clemson football program
ChatGPT's moral hang-ups about this endeavor forced me to reevaluate one of my basic assumptions about what I want out of the Clemson rivalry.
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The unfulfilled promise of Ricardo Hurley
Ricardo Hurley was supposed to herald the dawn of a new era in which South Carolina was a national recruiting power. But that's not what happened.
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Son of a Bootlegger
The story of South Carolina's second-ever All-American and the outlaw who sired him.
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The expanded CFB Playoff means more title game blowouts, not less
Conventional wisdom has coalesced around the idea that an expanded playoff will mean more competitive title games. That claim is not supported by the evidence.
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Jordan Burch's signing day melodramas foretold his eventual transfer
For 50 days in the winter of 2019-20, Jordan Burch was at the center of one of the most bizarre signing day dramas of all time.
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How the Gator Bowl killed the Tobacco Bowl
In 1945, two fledgling bowl committees were scrambling to secure the funding and paperwork to launch a New Year's Day game. One game is still played today. The other one never got started.
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I am sending this newsletter against doctor's orders
The haters and losers in Big Medicine will not keep me from sending out TTFA's New Year's resolutions for 2023.