COLUMBIA — Disagreement, defiance and a viral moment later, there's a resolution. South Carolina's live rooster mascot has been re-named "The General," USC announced on Monday. After being advised to ...

COLUMBIA — Disagreement, defiance and a viral moment later, there’s a resolution. South Carolina’s live rooster mascot has been re-named “The General,” USC announced on Monday. After being advised to ...

“If these chickens could vote, they’d want to be here, not at Foster Farms,” Arlin Strange says as a few hundred members of the putative electorate mill about his feet. “Here they’re guaranteed two ...

When the announcement about the formation of Gamecock went out, the first question asked around the world was, “Gamecock?” However, I was intrigued by the return of the G.O.D. ethos. I talked to Mike ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WGHP) — The University of South Carolina Gamecocks are renaming their longtime live mascot. The live rooster, affectionately known as Sir Big Spur, is being forced to change its name ...

South Carolina's live rooster mascot has a new name after a dispute about its appearance ruffled some feathers. The university chose "The General" to recognize Thomas Sumter, a general in the South ...

Steve Spurrier is always the headliner of the South Carolina contingent at SEC Media Days, and for good reason as he is one of the best quotes in all of football. While Spurrier is the star, this year ...

LAKELAND -- All the proof Verbon Goble needs that his hobby -- his passion -- is moral and just and defendable is what happens when he untethers the leg of a prized Old English red. In a flash, ...

John Goodwin was flipping through the November issue of The Gamecock magazine when he came across an ad and did a double-take: Breco Products LLC, a family-owned business that makes "supplements" for ...

The photo came in on a Thursday night in the fall of 2004. It was Clemson week at South Carolina, and the journalists at the university’s student newspaper, The Daily Gamecock, were about to start ...