Freshman defensive lineman Kwame Geathers of Georgetown, S.C. has been cleared by an NCAA academic review to join the Georgia team.

The calendar says it’s the beginning of August, but fall is coming to South Carolina and Clemson. Both the Gamecocks and Tigers hold their first football practices Tuesday night.

A 20-year-old collegian who suffered a life-threatening head injury at a Vermont horse show is showing signs of improvement in an Albany, New York, hospital. Victoria Middleton, of Marietta, Georgia, was hurt Friday at the Vermont Summer Festival horse show in East Dorset when her horse got spooked and Middleton was knocked to the ground.

A member of the University of South Carolina equestrian team has been critically injured in an accident at a stable in Vermont. The school says junior Victoria Middleton was hit in the head with a rail over the weekend when the horse she was bathing got scared and broke the fencing in Bennington, Vt.

South Carolina WR Moe Brown speaks at SEC Media Days on Day 3.

South Carolina LB Eric Norwood speaks at SEC Media Days on Day 3.

South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier speaks at SEC Media Days on Day 3.

Steve Spurrier cleared up the biggest mystery swirling around the Southeastern Conference when he said it was South Carolina that left Tim Tebow off the preseason all-SEC ballot.

South Carolina named Clint Haggard its head football athletic trainer. The school made the announcement Wednesday with Haggard starting his duties on Monday. Most recently, Haggard was a former assistant athletic director and head trainer at Rice.

The SEC spring football meetings just recently wrapped up in Destin, Florida, with every head coach on hand breaking down their teams to various media outlets. Steve Spurrier is talking Aramis Hillary, as well as the other USC quarterbacks. WJBF News Channel 6’s Chris Kane has more.

Tennessee slammed three home runs that accounted for eight runs including a grand slam by Zach Osborne on its way to a 9-5 win over South Carolina on Friday evening in game one of a three-game SEC baseball series at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

Area colleges and universities released their Academic Progress Rate statistics on Wednesday, which provides a snapshot of how each school’s athletes are performing in the classroom.

Steve Spurrier visited Aiken Tuesday night for the annual Aiken County Gamecock Club meeting.

South Carolina belted out 16 hits including home runs from Parker Bangs,  Nick Ebert and
DeAngelo Mack and behind a complete game performance by junior right-hander Blake Cooper defeated Vanderbilt
11-3 on Sunday afternoon to sweep a three-game series against the Commodores. 

DeAngelo Mack tallied his second two-homer game of the season on his way to a career-high
four hits as South Carolina belted its way to a 14-5 victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday evening at Carolina
Stadium.