Archive for October, 2008

And now … some baseball

The World Series is over. You have to turn on your heat at night. Football season is hitting the stretch, and basketball is around the corner.
So yes, it’s the perfect time for a baseball post.
Actually it’s all Ray Tanner and Eric Hyman’s fault. They’re the ones who decided to meet with the press yesterday, for [...]

Ex-Gamecocks in the NBA

You may not be aware, but the NBA season has begun. I know, I was shocked too.
 
The SEC put out a list of the former players who started the year on NBA rosters. One indication of how the world has changed: Kentucky is now tied with Florida for the lead, with nine players each.
 
South Carolina [...]

Odom goes home again

You remember Dave Odom, right? Former basketball coach here? Kind of on the short side, and prone to talking for 55 minutes about his junior high baseball team?
Well after a long semi-retirement, he’s returning to his alma mater … sort of. Guilford, a Division III school in North Carolina, has hired Odom as a part-time [...]

Welcome to Moe's … or not

Of all the things that may or may not be wrong with the South Carolina football team’s offense, one critical thing has been overlooked: Receiver Moe Brown has never actually been to Moe’s.
“But I have had food from Moe’s, from other people,” Brown said. ”I think when they had it at the stadium some time.”
He doesn’t remember [...]

Another potential hoops recruit

As Phil Kornblut reported last week, South Carolina has offered a scholarship to a local prospect, 6-foot-8 Mike Green of Ridge View High School. Green is a guy that hasn’t been mentioned much, but it’s easy to see where his star could rise a lot as his recruitment goes forward.
Obviously he’s tall, and still growing [...]

Ringing up more hoops notes

Darrin Horn held a pre-practice media session Friday afternoon, and first off, let me apologize for my cell phone going off while Horn was speaking. I should have expressed contrition right away, just like Horn did when his cell phone went off a minute later.
As always, some notes, observations and other stuff:
- Speaking on the [...]

From a high school coach …

It’s been mentioned before that Darrin Horn and his staff are working hard on the recruiting trail, especially in terms of laying the groundwork for the future.
To that end, Sumter High School coach Nate Livesay offered up this tidbit:
“I have met Horn and his staff a couple of times now.  The effort level they are [...]

Horn and Felton: Not buddies

The two most recent coaches to leave Western Kentucky, who are now SEC East colleagues, probably don’t exchange Christmas cards.
We’ve heard rumblings from Kentucky that South Carolina’s Darrin Horn and Georgia’s Dennis Felton have a little iciness between them. Felton said little to change that impression Thursday at the SEC media days.
At least that’s what [...]

Kentuckians check in with Horn

Darrin Horn was born in Lexington, Kent., and played and coached at Western Kentucky. So of course the interest in the new South Carolina men’s basketball coach will be high in that state.
Two different papers did features on Horn from the SEC media days. First up, a story from the Louisville Courier-Journal, which centers on [...]

Seen and heard in Birmingham

A few notes and observations:
- So I’m walking to the lobby around 9:30 a.m., more than an hour before things start, and there’s a man in the lobby wearing a T-shirt and Tennessee basketball shorts. Apparently, Bruce Pearl isn’t letting success turn him into Greta Garbo.
“There’s a homeless man over there wearing Tennessee shorts,” I [...]