Left: @GamecockWBB crowd in 2008-09, @dawnstaley's first year.
Right: @GamecockWBB crowd, Feb. 12, 2023.
Chris Trainorš„
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Chris Trainorš„
@ChrisTrainorSC
Retail reporter for @TheState. Columnist for the @ijindexjournal. Alum: Free Times & @PCColumbia. Charley's dad. Pizza Inn evangelist. thestate.com
Lexington, SC
Joined January 2012
- If you used to watch the @Braves on TBS at your grandma's house and she fixed you a frying pan burger and a cherry Kool-Aid, with Andy Griffith on during a rain delay, this one's for you.
- The race is on: @Dr_JLJohnson, a former pro basketball player and recent presidential candidate @AndrewYang's former state campaign chairman, is challenging for the state House District 80 seat long held by Jimmy Bales.
- So, this storm was underhyped for SC.
- The way I-95 in SC, from 26 to the Georgia line, is a two-lane country road from hell then opens up to three lanes of beautiful wide open freeway *the moment* you cross into Georgia is just embarrassing.
- The South: "Yeah, yeah, yeah there is a hurricane making landfall in literally hours. But first...football."
- To the LSU fan at the SEC Women's Basketball Tournament today who cursed at me and then declared to my brother, Mom and other Carolina fans that you would see us tomorrow and that there was a "new sheriff in town":
- They're gonna have Chinese Balloon shirts at Eagles and Wings by sundown.
- South Carolina (@GamecockMBB) was 18-13 overall, 9-9 in the SEC. Vanderbilt was 17-16 overall, 7-11 in the SEC. South Carolina beat Vanderbilt twice. Vanderbilt made the NIT. South Carolina didn't. That is...something.
- Josh Norman, of the NFL's Washington Redskins, with a full pager in the @ijindexjournal, his hometown paper.
- George W. about to be out there risking it all.
