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Come for the obscure Bon Iver reference in the title, stay for the South Carolina Gamecocks history posts.
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The case for 2000 as USC's best Georgia win
Since the Gamecocks are almost certainly not going to beat Georgia in 2023, let's seek refuge in our memories of the year 2000, a time when they did.
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2023 is USC's first Spider-Man Meme year since 1983
Plus, what the infrequency of this phenomenon says about the futility of the "real Carolina" debate.
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Dawn Staley's unlikely path to South Carolina
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No, Sandstorm did not start during the 2009 upset of Ole Miss
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Mailbag: Metro Conference counterfactual, Kenny McKinley, and the evolution of the Block-C logo
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The rise and fall of Steve Spurrier's website
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Jordan Burch's signing day melodramas foretold his eventual transfer
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The favorite songs prompt that's taking over Twitter makes no sense whatsoever
And yet I still took the bait.
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Let's do some extremely risk-averse sports betting
Read to the end for some truly exquisite Clemson trash talk.
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Where will we talk about sports in 2023?
Twitter is imploding, but so far its would-be challengers are coming up short.
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On loving and mourning a difficult dog
Last week we said goodbye to Rilo, a real piece of work who lived to the unbelievably old age of 16.
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Todd Ellis was rejected for jersey retirement in 1989
Plus, notes on Lou Holtz and Georgia's sexual assault scandal.
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NIL and the future of recruiting hoaxes
In the 2010s, recruiting sites got pretty good at weeding out frauds. But NIL gives grifters a new foothold.
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8 takeaways from the historical SP+ data ESPN released this week
The godfather of advanced CFB stats has released a new resource that's going to make it a lot more fun to talk about the Gamecocks of yore.
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The 2024 SEC schedule and the end of the regional sports conference
The stopgap 2024 schedule, the first of the 16-team era, saw South Carolina lose its three most important rivals.
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Thoughts on the 2024 SEC schedule?
The 2024 SEC schedule game out last night, and … it certainly is a schedule! I obviously understood the likely consequences of adding OU and UT,…
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