The Cheraw Braves suffered their second loss of the season on Aug. 27 at Meiklejohn Stadium, falling to the Marlboro Bulldogs 30-0 in a non-regional contest. The Braves’ (0-2, 0-0) offense managed...
Gamecocks name team captains South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier named two new team captains to the football squad Aug. 25, as senior Ladi Ajiboye and Spencer Lanning earned the honor. Ajiboye and Lanning will join retur...
Nationals’ loss hurts baseball The Washington Nationals found out last week that starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg has a major tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow, which will require Tommy John surgery to repair...
Who is NASCAR in 2010? When a model or actress signs a contract with a cosmetic or clothing company, she becomes what is known as “the face” of the product. If the marketing department is doing its job correctly, anytim...
Tigers prepare for North Texas With just nine days before their season opener, the Clemson Tigers began preparing for North Texas on Aug. 25 according to the football programís official practice report. The Tigers spent two hou...
Rams tame Whirlwinds in season opener on road The Chesterfield Rams opened the 2010 season with a 22-point victory over Timmonsville High School Aug. 27, taming the Whirlwinds in a close contest on the road that tested the Ram’s resolve. For ...
Braves open season with loss on road The Cheraw Braves opened the 2010 season on the wrong side of a 35-7 loss Aug. 21 against Dillon High School. The loss helped Dillon Head Coach Jackie Hayes earn his 200th victory, becoming the 21...
Favre drama worse than reality T.V. Brett Favre was back in action on Aug. 17, this time as the worldwide leader in sports ESPN tracked an airplane with the veteran quarterback and three of his teammates as it traveled from Hattie...
About face
When a model or actress signs a contract with a cosmetic or clothing company, she becomes what is known as “the face” of the product. If the marketing department is doing its job correctly, anytim...
Clemson faces some big games One way to determine how a football team’s season will fall into place is to look at their schedule. Many tough teams have hit snags during a season after struggling through an early season gaunt...
Gamecocks have tough road ahead After posting a 7-6 mark in 2009, South Carolina is ready to compete for a spot in the Southeastern Conference title game this season. Before they make their way to Georgia for the conference cha...
Preseason ACC power rankings
Atlantic Division 1. Florida State Florida State is the easy pick for the preseason Atlantic Division favorite. While the great Bobby Bowden bids farewell to the program he built, a new regime h...
East Division 1. Florida The new-look Florida team will have to fill the void left by all-around good guy Tim Tebow, but head coach Urban Meyer has stockpiled talent in the sunshine state. J...
If anything was apparent in the Carolina Panthers’ first preseason game on Aug. 12, it’s that the Panthers’ offense still has work to do. While myself, and the majority of Panthers’ fans, are reli...
The past few days in NASCAR have started to resemble a Sudoku puzzle. You know the pieces are going to fall into place eventually. You’re just not exactly sure how. Sudoku is a number puzzle, usua...
The Clemson Tigers and South Carolina Gamecocks opened up the 2010 football season on Aug. 3 as the first whistles of preseason practice were blown. Both teams practiced without pads, with the T...
One of the most appalling atrocities in the Carolinas is the lack of a professional baseball team. For all the vigor that surrounds college baseball programs in both South and North Carolina, the ...
If stock car racing had its own version of the old Ed Sullivan variety show, NASCAR Nationwide Series crew chief Trent Owens would be the plate spinner. Remember the plate spinner? He was the guy...
The Chesterfield Golden Rams may be sitting on 3-straight Division A state titles, but head coach Steve Taneyhill stressed August 3 at practice that the team isn’t focused on the past, but what l...
With the start of football season weeks away, the Cheraw High School football team wasted no time getting ready for the season, opening practice last week to begin the fall season. About 25 player...
A bill to honor the 2010 NCAA national champion USC baseball team reached a familiar spot in the world of politics on July 27, as the bill found its way stuck in the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee...
The Clemson Tigers were picked as the second place team in the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Atlantic Division at the 2010 ACC Football Kickoff held in Greensboro, N.C. on July 26. The Tigers pick...
Bobby Dale has a heart for racing. He also has the genes for it. Bobby, who is 22 years old, lives in Rockingham, in the shadow of a speedway that once hosted NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weekends, ...
University of South Carolina defensive end Cliff Matthews will have a new title when pressuring Southeastern Conference quarterbacks this season, as the Cheraw native was named to the first team ...
Former Wallace High School Athletic Director Clifton Crosland earned a prestigious honor July 25, as the former head coach was inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Coaches Association Hall o...
Bobby Dale has a heart for racing. He also has the genes for it. Bobby, who is 22 years old, lives in Rockingham, N.C., in the shadow of a speedway that once hosted NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weeken...
Cheraw High School 2010 graduate, La’Quisha Di’Jon Bell is on her way to California where she will compete in the USATF Track and Field National Junior Olympics. The event which will be held Jul...
There are many things I like and admire about Dale Earnhardt Jr., but one particular item that keeps popping up is the fact that just when you’re a little bit tempted to give up on the guy, he save...
It was a hot summer Saturday night at Rockingham Raceway Park, but the action is also heating up in the pit area. Legends and Bandolero racing has moved to Saturday nights at Little Rock, the sma...
There are many things I like and admire about Dale Earnhardt Jr., but one particular item that keeps popping up is the fact that just when you’re a little bit tempted to give up on the guy, he save...
Do you know what I’d really like to see? I would really like to see Jeff Gordon win a race. Soon. This is the time to state for the record that although Jeff Gordon is not the driver I routinely ro...
CHERAW — The Cheraw Post 23 Ameroican Legion baseball team took the field against the Camden Post 17 squad last Wednesday night to try and work its way into the playoff picture. After holding on f...
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