The Buck Stops Here

The last college baseball dynasty was LSU, which won four national titles between 1993-2000.

Since that time, the team that came closest to building a dynasty was Ray Tanner’s USC Gamecocks, who played in three straight championships (winning 2) before Tanner left his post to become USC’s Athletic Director.

When I was in my ‘20s, it was a dream of mine to one day own a little record store. I would play my favorite records all day and debate other rock geeks about which albums and artists were best.

To me, Sunday was the darkest day in my 17 years of being a Gamecock.  

You might scoff at that remark.  You may bring up Brad Scott’s 1-10 campaign in 1998 or Lou Holt’s winless season the following year. And there’s no question the 63-17 drubbing at the hands of our in-state rival a dozen years ago was a jagged pill to swallow.  

When people talk about who invented heavy metal, they talk about three British bands – Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple.  The first of these was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two decades ago, the second in 2006.  It is one of rock history’s great travesties that Deep Purple still remains on the outside of the hall looki

I read a CNN article the other day about a 12-year-old British girl who reportedly has a higher IQ than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.  

In the last decade, the University of South Carolina’s athletic program has made major strides.  Three top-10 finishes in football, two baseball national titles and a top-10 women’s basketball program are all worth bragging about.  

I like movies set in the ‘50s,’60s and ‘70s.

There are many reasons for this. The clothes, hair and music are usually pretty cool. But my favorite thing about these retro flicks is the cars.

There aren’t all that many diehard Falcons fans out there. Never winning a Super Bowl has a way of keeping them scarce.  But for the last half-decade, anyway, Atlanta was at least competitive and respectable.