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South Carolina Wins, for a Change

By Paul WachterJun 30th 2010 – 10:00AM

The University of South Carolina basketball has entered the NCAA tournament as a No. 2 seed only to be upset in the first round. The following year, with a No. 3 ranking, there was another debacle. And the football team has had a Heisman Trophy winner (George Rogers) and two marquee coaches (Lou Holtz, Steve Spurrier) and...

Background on gamecocks

A gamecock or game fowl is a type of rooster with physical and behavioral traits suitable for cockfighting and may be further identified as a secular term denoting use of a fighting cock as identified in the Douay–Rheims Bible translation from the late 4th-century Latin Vulgate into English of Proverbs 30:31 of "a cock girded about the loins".

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