Archive for November, 2007

Nov200727

semerson

3

Lessons from Orlando

Yes, I had a great time in Orlando. Thanks for asking. Really nice weather, met some nice people, saw a bit of Disney World, all that good stuff.
But my lingering memory will be one from Sunday evening: Dave Odom leaning against the wall in the back of an elevator, staring straight ahead with an [...]

Nov200716

semerson

4

The key stretch ahead

We keep hearing the same thing about this newfound fad we call the South Carolina men’s basketball team: Yeah, they look good now, but what about when the SEC season rolls around?
Um, with all due respect to conference play, how about the next two WEEKS? Folks, we’re about to find out a lot about this [...]

Nov200713

semerson

42

Fickle fans? No, never!

Last week, when the sky was merely on the verge of falling, yours truly joked with another media member on what fan reaction might be around the corner:
“They’re gonna come out of the woodwork now, saying, ‘Oh. I never wanted Spurrier in the first place! I thought he was over the hill! I didn’t want [...]

Nov200709

semerson

6

My fearless hoops season forecast

I’ll start by saying that what you’re about to read will turn out to be, to use a journalistic-type word, wrong. And I mean factually incorrect, not wrong in the “Oh, no he didn’t!” sense. The forthcoming predictions have as much chance of being 100 percent accurate as Mike Gravel does of becoming president.
Welcome, friends, [...]

Nov200706

semerson

1

Exhibition game impressions

Let me preface this by saying I didn’t leave the Colonial Center on Monday night and call Joe Lunardi to tell him to put South Carolina in his preseason 64. That would be nuts, and Lunardi would lose my number.
But after watching this Gamecocks basketball team play another team for the first time (at least [...]