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And anything on Twitter can go worldwide in minutes.

And his last story was done just today. Very sad. More about him: http://carolinasportsthoughts.blogspot.com/2014/06/dallas-sports-writer-richard-durrrett.html

In SC there's a couple message boards, Palmetto Football Talk and SCPrepTalk that people use. I used to be a statistician for my high school team and I called in scores every week. The last year I did it, there were two call-in shows. One was a statewide show that aired on about 20 stations...

Softball at the college level, except for the major schools (Tennessee, Arizona, a few others) is usually a loss leader. You're lucky to get a couple hundred fans for most games. You never see softball highlights on our local news unless something major happens (like a perfect game). Baseball...

Here, all of our weather people are meteorologists. I can't remember the last person doing weather who was not.

His "TPIR" audition.

In our area, seventh and eighth graders used to be able to play JV football, but now they can't. Our local middle schools have an entire league just for them now. Other sports, you can play JV.

Another weird thing that South Carolina does: the 4A cheerleading semi-finals. They have Upper State and Lower State on separate days, one in Rock Hill (Upper State), and Lower State (on the west side of Columbia). Upper State has 23 schools competing, with the top 8 making it. In the Lower...

In South Carolina, they do that for the state finals, but the most any team has to play against each other is three games. For example, my HS baseball team played a team from another part of the state three times. Once they played on Saturday night, and the winner got to wait until Wednesday...

SC has 32 teams in 4A make it, 32 in 3A, all 48 in 2A, and 32 in 1A. 144 teams out of about 200 make the playoffs just in the public schools. SCISA, the private school division, lets even more teams in. 24 teams in 11-man football, 8 in 8-man. SCISA volleyball can be ridiculous. They hold...

Sorry to update this thread, but this year I'm sure you've got some tales about your area high schools. They changed the playoff system in our 2A regions so that every team in the state in that classification makes the playoffs, all 48 teams, split into two divisions. SC has more teams making...

Well, the article talked about how Spurrier "poached" Bruce Ellington from the basketball program.

Don't know if this is the right board, but South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier just slammed Ron Morris, writer at The State newspaper in Columbia, for writing an erroneous article about Bruce Ellington, who is the Gamecocks wildcat QB. Spurrier decided to leave the press conference until Mr...

South Carolina has had this since they started in the SEC. They forced South Carolina and Arkansas, the two new teams, to face each other every year, even though they are more than 900 miles apart, almost 1000. South Carolina's crossover game until they changed the schedules in '01 was...

My local newspaper (Charleston) has begun to put articles in print only. It started a couple months ago with just one or two articles in the weekend papers. Now they are putting at least one or more articles in print only almost every day, including some of their big-ticket stuff like the high...