Category: Sports Update

Clemson’s Vic Beasley will return for his senior season with the Tiger football team. The defensive end was a consensus first-team All-American in 2013, helping the Tigers to an 11-2 record and number-seven final national ranking in the USA Today poll. Beasley led the ACC in sacks with 13 and finished second in tackles for loss with 23.

Clemson ranks seventh by USA Today and eighth by the Associated Press in the final college football polls.  The number-seven ranking in USA Today is the highest final ranking for the Clemson program in one of the two major polls since 1981 when Clemson won the National Championship. The 2013 season marks the ninth season Clemson has been ranked in […]

The University of South Carolina football team finished fourth in the final Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN Coaches polls. It marked the highest postseason ranking in school history. FloridaState (14-0) received every first place vote in both polls, finishing just ahead of Auburn (12-2). Big Ten Champion Michigan State (13-1) placed third, with the Gamecocks (11-2) and Missouri (12-2) rounding […]

Clemson junior Sammy Watkins announced Monday that he would make himself available for the 2014 NFL draft.    Watkins leaves Clemson as a three-time first-team All-American and the school’s record holder in terms of receptions and reception yards in a game, season and career.  Even though he played just three years, he set 23 Clemson records. Watkins finished his Clemson career […]

Jameis Winston threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Kelvin Benjamin with 13 seconds left and No. 1 Florida State beat No. 2 Auburn 34-31 to win the last BCS national championship game on Monday night. Winston was 20 for 35 for 237 yards and two fourth-quarter touchdown passes. Auburn’s Tre Mason ran for 195 yards in the loosing effort.

The Clemson Tigers won the Discover Orange Bowl, 40-35 over the Ohio State Buckeyes Friday night in Miami. The Tigers forced four second-half turnovers, including two interceptions on the Buckeyes’ final two possessions, to rally from a halftime deficit for a BCS bowl win and a second straight 11-win season, both firsts in school history.

South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw was responsible for five touchdowns as the Gamecocks beat the Wisconsin Badgers 34-24 in the Capital One Bowl on Wednesday. The Gamecocks’ senior was named the game’s MVP after picking apart the Badgers defense, completing 22 of 25 passes for 312 yards. Shaw also had rushing and receiving scores. South Carolina (11-2) won its third […]

Clemson placed two players on the Walter Camp Football Foundation All American Team announced Thursday night while South Carolina had one selection.  The is the 124th edition of the squad, which is the nation’s oldest All American team.  Tigers’ defensive end Vic Beasley was named to the first team while his teammate, receiver Sammy Watkins, was a second team selection. […]

Former Seneca High School head football Coach Wayne Green is going home.  At a self-described homecoming Wednesday morning, Coach Green was introduced as the new head football coach for Berea High School.  Coach Green is the Bulldogs all-time winningest head coach with a 90-65 record when he guided the team from 1986-1999.  Coach Green posted a 26-20 record in his […]

Former managers Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox were announced Monday as having been elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, with each selected unanimously by the 16 voters on the expansion era committee. All three have more than 2,000 wins and they have a combined eight World Series titles between them: four for Torre, three for La Russa […]