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SportsLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Clemson volleyball opens a two-match road trip Friday night against one of the best teams in the country, facing No. 3 Louisville at 7 p.m. at L&N Federal Credit Union Arena on the Cardinals' Halloween night. The Tigers come in at 8-14…
SportsTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Clemson travels to Tallahassee for a Saturday night game against Florida State, set to kick off at 7 at Doak Campbell Stadium, a meeting of two Atlantic Coast Conference programs trying to rescue seasons that have gone sideways. The Tigers are 4-3…
SportsCLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson men's basketball starts the games that count on Monday, Nov. 2, when Stetson visits Littlejohn Coliseum for a 7 p.m. tip. Brad Brownell's Tigers head into the opener unbeaten in the preseason. They edged Georgia 82-80 on Oct. 23 and then…
From the HERE City State DeskNORMAN, Okla. — South Carolina heads west this weekend looking to stretch a two-game winning streak to three. The Gamecocks face Oklahoma at 4:15 p.m. Saturday in Norman, with the game on SEC Network. It is just the second trip to Norman in program history…
From the HERE City State DeskBALTIMORE, Md. — South Carolina State turned a close first half into a blowout Thursday night, scoring the last 30 points of the game on the way to a 51-10 win over Morgan State in Baltimore. Keely Watson was sharp at quarterback from start to…
From the HERE City State DeskCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Dawn Staley and South Carolina begin another women's basketball season as the team to beat. A national power ranking released this week put the Gamecocks at No. 1 heading into 2026-27, matching their spot atop the preseason poll of media voters. In…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — The Atlanta Dream host Golden State in Game 6 of the WNBA Finals on Thursday, with a 12:30 p.m. ET start at State Farm Arena, a workday tipoff the team’s owners have publicly blamed on the league. In a letter to fans…
From the HERE City National DeskGREEN BAY, Wis. — Two teams coming off losses meet Thursday night at Lambeau Field, where the Carolina Panthers try to stay above .500 against a Green Bay Packers club that has its own list of injuries to manage. Carolina arrives on a short week…
From the HERE City National DeskIRVING, Texas — The Big 12 Conference on Wednesday hit UCF with a $100,000 fine after a group of Knights fans aimed chants at BYU and its sponsoring Latter-day Saints church before last Saturday’s football game in Orlando, which UCF won in overtime. The league…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley has given up his ownership stake in Polymarket, saying NFL rules no longer let players hold a piece of prediction-market companies. Barkley said the league briefs players ahead of every season on which endorsements and investments…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK, N.Y. — With the World Series decided, Major League Baseball moved into its offseason Thursday, and the calendar between now and December is packed because a labor shutdown could stop the hot stove cold. Players with at least six years of service became…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — Ernie Johnson, the host who has anchored Inside the NBA since 1990, said Wednesday that the 2026-27 season will be his last at the desk. Johnson, 70, shared the decision in a video on social media and stressed that it was his…
Education
CLEMSON, S.C. — With Halloween a day away, a Clemson University researcher who studies bats wants people to swap fright for a little respect when they spot the small flyers overhead at dusk. Ben Neece, who studies bats for Clemson's Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, leads the school's Southeast…
Education
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson University will need a new technology chief next year. Brian Voss, the vice president and chief information officer, plans to retire when 2026 ends, wrapping up five years in the job. Voss took the post in February 2022, after two earlier stints as interim CIO at…
From the HERE City State Desk
GAFFNEY, S.C. — Upstate South Carolina now has a working solar module factory. First Solar opened the first phase of its Cherokee County plant on Oct. 28, with state and federal leaders on hand for the ribbon cutting on the factory floor. Roughly 500 people already work there. The company…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Diners across South Carolina should start seeing notices about where their shrimp came from. The Truth in Shrimp Labeling Act, House Bill 4248, took effect Wednesday and requires food service businesses to tell customers when the shrimp on the plate was imported. Sit-down restaurants are not the…
From the HERE City State Desk
CONWAY, S.C. — The board that runs Santee Cooper, the state-owned electric utility, meets Friday morning to decide whether customers will pay more for power over the next two years. Directors were scheduled to gather at 8 a.m. at Atheneum Hall on the Coastal Carolina University campus. The plan on…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Side-by-side utility vehicles will be allowed on some South Carolina public roads starting Nov. 18, when a new state law takes effect. Until that date, the S.C. Department of Public Safety warns, taking one onto a public road can still get a driver a ticket. Not every…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina prison officials may soon get the tool they have chased for more than a decade. On Nov. 19, the Federal Communications Commission is set to decide on final rules that would let state prisons and local jails jam cellphone signals inside their walls, Chairman Brendan…
From the HERE City National Desk
URDA, Spain — Investigators in Spain are focusing on a decision made inside a Madrid rail control room after a high-speed train plowed into the back of a stopped train Wednesday morning in the central province of Toledo, killing 68 people in the country's second deadly high-speed crash this year.…
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal judge is weighing whether the exceptions written into the South Carolina abortion ban are clear enough for doctors to follow, as a three-day bench trial over the 2023 law wraps up Friday. The lawsuit, brought by obstetrician-gynecologists and filed in January 2025, does not attack…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — National Democrats are spending money in South Carolina for the first time this cycle. Senate Majority PAC, the main outside group backing Senate Democrats, said Thursday it is putting $750,000 into digital ads for Annie Andrews in her race against Republican Sen. Darline Graham. The group has…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Henry McMaster has filled out the panel he created last week to steer South Carolina land and heritage protection. The governor announced 25 appointees to the Governor's Conservation Commission on Thursday, drawn from business, landowning and academic circles. They will sit with several state leaders who…
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