By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
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“Gone are the days of opening a facility right now and people want to sit on metal bleachers when it’s 100 degrees outside.” - Coastal Carolina athletic director Chance Miller on what fans want.
A packed Littlejohn Coliseum comes alive as players are introduced before the Duke game in Clemson in February 2025. (Photo by Travis Bell/SIDELINE CAROLINA/Special to the SC Daily Gazette)
By Pete Iacobelli
High-dollar upgrades to athletic facilities remain essential to fans, team personnel, players and prospects, even in an era where sponsorship contracts and court-mandated revenue sharing for players have reshaped the sport. Here’s a look at the constant competition for “something a little better” at the three public universities in South Carolina that compete in the biggest level of college football. (All of the spending is approved by state oversight boards.)
The Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus, founded in 2011, consists of more than 35 tenors and basses. (Photo courtesy of Nakeshia Shannon)
By Jessica Holdman
The governing board of the state Arts Commission voted 5-3 yesterday to reject giving $13,000 to the Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus and almost $4,000 to Spartanburg’s Proud Mary Theatre Company. It was a virtual-only meeting, and commissioners did not discuss their decision. But emails provide their reasoning.
Breads are sorted in the donation center at Feed More, a central-Virginia-anchored food bank. (File photo by Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury)
COMMENTARY
By Jessica Kaneft
In the sixth commentary in her Jericho Road series, nonprofit director Jessica Kaneft writes about food insecurity in South Carolina. She cites the Lord's Prayer, as well as Old Testament commands on gleaning the fields.
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