Once again, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney will have to lean on a backup to get the job done. However, this time around the backup will have to go the rest of the season for the Tigers. Swinney announced on Thursday that Alex Spence, a redshirt junior from Florence, S.C., will be second-ranked Clemson’s new […]
If you enjoy watching cop shows on television—as I do—then you’ll be able to easily relate to the frustration I’m about to describe. A crime occurs, and within five minutes, you know who did it. You can see it coming from a mile away. You just know a certain character is lying, and it’s painfully […]
With the media watching from the balcony and his teammates surrounding him, Greg Huegel did not look like a walk-on when he drilled a 47-yard field goal to close practice on Thursday inside Clemson’s Indoor Practice Facility. The kick could have been good from 50-plus yards. Even when the ball came off his foot, it […]
Football season is truly here. Camps all across the country in high school, college and in the National Football League have begun. The first football game of the year will kick off on Sunday at 8 p.m. when my Steelers play Minnesota in the Hall of Fame Game on NBC. As for your Clemson Tigers, […]
Wally Pipp. Could Ammon Lakip be Clemson’s version of Wally Pipp? Pipp was the New York Yankees first baseman, who led the Yankees to a 1923 World Championship. Twice he led the American League in home runs. But no one truly remembers him. Why? In 1925 Pip was injured and a young ballplayer by the […]
The Clemson football depth chart got a makeover last week—and not for positive reasons. The “decision” by rising senior left tackle Isaiah Battle to enter the supplemental draft (conveniently on the heels of a simple marijuana citation) and the indefinite suspension of incumbent placekicker Ammon Lakip after a disastrous traffic stop have momentarily halted the […]