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My wife and I traveled to SC over spring break to see family and attend South Carolina’s annual Garnet and Black game. This year, we had a special treat in that Hootie and the Blowfish played before the game and at halftime. Here’s a brief video I took while they were playing. The songs from Cracked Rear View are timeless. They’re as good today as they were ten years ago.

On Tuesday, the world lost one of the most important sports figures of the twentieth century, Eddie Robinson. Eddie Robinson coached Grambling State University from 1941 to 1997, and when he retired, he was the winningest football coach in NCAA history, having won a staggering 408 games. In 57 years as a head coach, Robinson only had 8 losing seasons. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997.

Despite having coached his entire career at Grambling State, a historically black college, Robinson should also be remembered for his quiet contribution in helping to fully integrate the National Football League. It’s somewhat ironic that Eddie Robinson, a man whose name was unfamiliar to most sports fans in the U.S., died in the same month that we remember another Robinson, Jackie Robinson, for breaking the race barrier in Major League Baseball. Read the rest of this entry »

Some days are easier to be a Gamecock fan than others. Today is a good example. The University of South Carolina Fighting Gamecocks scratched the Kentucky Wildcats from the SEC tournament. For those who do not know the significance of this event, it is the first time in history (that’s right, in history) that the Kentucky Wildcats have lost in the semi-finals of the SEC tourney. When you’re a Gamecock fan living in Big Blue country, you have to savor these moments. Go Cocks!

Ouch. That’s all one can say after reading Gene Wojciechowski’s latest article. Ouch.