David Cloninger

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | David Cloninger

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nothing against the attendees, but the great majority are probably just there for the show. Most don’t have a real connection with horses. If Xavier Legette’s stint at the Kentucky Derby as a social correspondent for the NFL helped even one person decide to peer more intimately into the equine world, it was worth it. And it was an awful lot of fun, too.

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | David Cloninger

COLUMBIA — It was a risk, one with which they felt comfortable taking. Throughout spring practice, Shane Beamer and his staff said they were confident that running back Rahsul Faison would be cleared to play for South Carolina this season, even though he was a high school senior in 2017 and has attended five schools (four colleges) since.

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | David Cloninger

COLUMBIA — Rumors were flying on May 4 as South Carolina finished another dreadful weekend, being swept by Florida and posting one result (22-3) that was the program's worst loss since 1997. But that's all they were. Wishful thinking and speculation don't count around Founders Park and, apparently, the Rice Athletics Center. "I’m not going anywhere," first-year USC coach Paul Mainieri said during a radio appearance on 107.5 The Game.

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | David Cloninger

COLUMBIA — Anything can still happen. It’s just that for South Carolina’s baseball team, “anything” has been boiled down to one very specific circumstance. “There’s not really much to say,” coach Paul Mainieri said in a feeble monotone. “Just got beat by a better team today.”If the Gamecocks do not win the Southeastern Conference Tournament in two weeks, they will miss the postseason for the fifth time in 10 tries.

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | David Cloninger

COLUMBIA — No place like home, to defend, or to return to. South Carolina softball did and stands to do. The No. 14 Gamecocks rose from a 13-1 run-ruled drubbing in Game 1 to take their regular-season series over No. 13 Alabama on May 3, winning the rubber match 7-2 after completing a suspended game from May 2 before it, 3-1. The second game was called in the fifth inning due to weather.