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Friday, May 10, 2013  Drew Barker, one of the top-rated quarterbacks in the class of 2014, has spurned South Carolina to play for his home-state Kentucky Wildcats.

Monday, April 08, 2013  With perhaps billions of dollars stake, a hearing Tuesday over concussion litigation filed against the NFL promises to be a brawl between legal heavyweights.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012  Venus Williams is returning to the Family Circle Cup near Charleston next spring.

Monday, July 23, 2012  IOC President Rogge honors slain Israelis with a minute of silence in athletes village

Friday, April 06, 2012  South Carolina pitcher Michael Roth was named the Southeastern Conference's H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

Monday, March 12, 2012  South Carolina sophomore two-sport standout Bruce Ellington announced Monday that he will commit to playing basketball full-time and will no longer be part of the Gamecock football team.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011  Ohio State's Jim Tressel resigns as football coach amid NCAA violations, sanctions

Monday, March 14, 2011  NCAA selection committee faces new challenges with expanded tourney field, seeding process

Thursday, May 27, 2010  Sammy Sosa will not face a perjury investigation for his remarks to Congress about performance-enhancing drugs.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010  China was stripped of a bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics on Wednesday for fielding an underage gymnast, with that women's team medal now going to the United States.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010  Juan Antonio Samaranch, former IOC president, dies at 89; Term marked by success, scandal

Monday, April 19, 2010  Ex-boxing champ Edwin Valero dies in jail after wife's killing; police say he killed himself

Wednesday, February 10, 2010  IOC finances improve despite global economic woes; reserve funds increase to $466 million

Tuesday, February 09, 2010  Big and small, US Olympians sort through the rewards as they arrive in Vancouver

Friday, February 05, 2010  Seventh-grade quarterback gives verbal commitment to play at USC in 2015.