Spurrier trades trivia for cash
Oh, Steve.
At Saturday’s men’s basketball win over Arkansas, USC football coach Steve Spurrier had a question for a group of reporters in an interview session: Which BCS teams have won 11 or more games in each of the last two seasons?
Get it right, and Spurrier promised “a bonus,” according to The Post and Courier.
Two reporters had the answer (South Carolina, Alabama, Stanford and Oregon), and the Head Ball Coach pulled a few envelopes from inside his blazer, handed them to the reporters and walked away. Inside, they found $100 apiece.
“I thought you guys would want to know that,” Spurrier told reporters, according to the Charleston paper. “Next time, y’all do some of that work.”
What happened to that cash isn’t entirely clear, but The State’s Pat Obley pointed out on Twitter that if anyone from his paper won, McClatchy, The State’s parent company, would require it be donated to charity.
— Thad Moore, News Editor
Club raided for second time this month
The sheriff’s department has seen plenty of the Crush Gentlemen’s Club in the past few years.
In the last two weeks, Richland County deputies have twice raided the club, including this weekend, when they issued tickets for serving alcohol and operating a sex-oriented business without licenses, The State reported. Three strippers and the manager were cited. Five other women weren’t charged.
Since January 2010, deputies have gotten 142 calls to the club, which officials hope to shut down permanently. So far this month, shots have been fired there twice, including one incident that injured two people inside.
Dancers inside the club, at 3722 River Drive, told The State they were frustrated with the raids, which they said were costing them money, especially because men tip particularly well in January, when they’re newly flush with federal tax refunds.
— Thad Moore, News Editor