Snapshot of a rivalry: USC vs. Clemson
By Sarah Ellis | Nov. 26, 2013Historic football rivalry dates back 117 years to 1896
Historic football rivalry dates back 117 years to 1896
When you’re standing in Williams-Brice Stadium, cheering on the Gamecocks with 80,250 of your best friends, it’s easy to forget that not everyone in the stadium grew up loving garnet and black.
Sitting in one of the tables in the center of the dining room, Eddie Frazier swirls his Diet Coke around in a bright yellow cup. He stares out the window of his restaurant, the Bojangles’ on Bluff Road, directly across from Williams-Brice Stadium, into the tailgating lots that were once home to a farmers market.
South Carolina and Clemson enjoy a rivalry with roots deeper than the gridiron grass, its seeds sown by infamous state politics and nurtured by a never-ceasing struggle to claim recognition as the Palmetto State’s flagship educational and athletics program.
Car lands on roof after high-speed police chase A car landed on top of a Forest Acres home early Saturday morning following a Columbia police chase, The State reported. The car was pursued after an officer believed he saw an illegal drug transaction at or near the vehicle on Senate Street, the Columbia Police Department told the newspaper. The vehicle did not have lights on and the suspect was driving erratically.
Public urination, a taser and a foot chase are in this week’s crime blotter.
One hundred and thirty-eight miles from Clemson seemed a bit shorter last week as the South Carolina and Clemson chapters of Sigma Nu fraternity finished their 37th annual Game Ball Run as part of a run-up to next week’s football game.
The board of trustees’ buildings and grounds committee approved a $27.5 million project to expand the Thomson Student Health Center and a five-year comprehensive permanent improvement plan at its Friday meeting.
USC won the annual Carolina-Clemson Blood Drive for the sixth consecutive year, the Red Cross announced Friday.
Put down your razors, boys. It’s time to raise awareness. If you’ve seen unusually hairy men around campus, it’s probably the work of Relay for Life and Beta Theta Pi fraternity, who have dedicated the month they’re calling “No-Shave-Ember” to raising awareness and money for prostate cancer and other cancers whose patients are predominantly men.
Thanksgiving will yield massive travel days, developments are in the works for Lexington County and Cynthia Pryor Hardy pleads guilty to marijuana charges.
Mitchell Hammonds was sitting in his car when he got word that he had been selected to be a part of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Undergraduate Fellows Program.
For Brandon Paul, a third-year studio art student, selling one of his first pieces of artwork at the USC art department’s annual holiday sale was rewarding.
More than 1,100 votes went uncounted in Richland County elections earlier this month because one voting machine cartridge went unaccounted for.
“It’d be fine by me if you’d never leave,” wasn’t only being sung by the Carolina Gentlemen in their impromptu performance Thursday night in Grand Marketplace.
Where were the lights at the Vista Lights celebration Thursday night?
Individual cigarette sales could be banned in Columbia, a teen charged in a shooting could be tried as an adult, and a Charlotte man is accused of robbing a dead man’s house.