THE THREAD [06.09.08] :: Let's Make a Deal
Slow day around South Carolina. No Spurrier quotables, no new coaches being hired, really not much. Um, the men's soccer schedule was released, though C&F would be hard-pressed to tell what the ...
THE THREAD [05.19.08] :: Fallout
At the beginning of the weekend, everyone knew that the stakes would be high as the Gamecocks baseball team took the field. Win the Tennessee series and South Carolina would likely be headed to Hoover...
THE THREAD [05.06.08] :: Party Schools
When you whip someone when they're wrong, give them credit when they apologize. Sort of. Buzz Bissinger, interviewed by Spencer Hall (aka Orson Swindle, EDSBS) over at TSN: What I did to Will Leitch...
THE THREAD [05.05.08] :: Brevity
C&F has four posts to do before a much-needed vacation from real work begins Friday, and but four nights to do them. So all items in The Thread will be brief for the next few days.Whether it's right o...
I'm so confused...
When C&F was a child, his parents tried to describe how people can be misled by society this way: "Suppose you had been told your whole life that the color blue was really 'green.' It doesn't matt...
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Obligatory Recruiting Post
I don't like writing about recruiting. Never have and probably never will.Part of this is because I'm just not sold on all the rankings. It seems to me they're two parts research, two parts guesswork,...
The Thread: You Say Goodbye, and I Say Hello
Money money money money. Money. Spurrier's getting more of it. Unless, of course, he goes to Miami. Or Alabama. Or Texas A&M. Or LSU. Or...Ellis Johnson's contract is pretty nice, too. Defensive...
UP IN SMOKE: The Rise and Fall of the 2007 Gamecocks -- Part III
One of the emblematic games of the Lou Holtz era came against Georgia in 2004. South Carolina took a 16-0 lead on the spelling-challenged Dawgs, who were ranked No. 3 in the country at that point.But ...
UP IN SMOKE: The Rise and Fall of the 2007 Gamecocks, Part II
There are certain things that the Gamecocks just do not do. Historically do not do. This isn't to say that those things can't ever be done; it is to say "believe it when you see it."One thing the Game...
Stickin'
The State offers a pretty standard but useful profile of Ellis Johnson. Some of the stuff that should please you (ignore for a moment that one of the messengers used to coach in the Upstate): Johnso...
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