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Cardoso, No. 1 South Carolina beat Georgia 70-56 for SEC record 43rd straight regular season win

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February 19, 2024

Cardoso, No. 1 South Carolina beat Georgia 70-56 for SEC record 43rd straight regular season win

(AP) -South Carolina coach Dawn Staley knows better than anyone how hard it is to win in the Southeastern Conference.

Staley and her Gamecocks reached another milestone to show that these days, they have few rivals in one of college basketball’s most difficult leagues.

Kamilla Cardoso had 16 points and 16 rebounds as No. 1 South Carolina rallied past Georgia 70-56 on Sunday to win its record 43rd straight Southeastern Conference regular-season game.

The Gamecocks (25-0, 12-0 SEC) broke a mark Tennessee and the late, great Pat Summitt achieved with 42 straight SEC victories from January 1992 through a loss to Georgia nearly four years later.

“I’m just proud of the former players and the current players to put together some of the most historical stretches in this league,” Staley said. “It says something to be able to do that because this is a hard league.”

Georgia and Javyn Nicholson proved that for much of this one. Nicholson had a career-high 27 points and the Bulldogs were ahead 37-28 early in the third quarter.

That’s when Cardoso and the Gamecocks reasserted themselves to take control.

“I feel like we just didn’t get in the flow defensively,” said Chloe Kitts, who scored 10 of her 12 points in the final two quarters. “At the end of the day, we stopped (Nicholson) in the second half and we pulled through.”

Behind Cardoso, Te-Hina Paopao, Kitts and MiLaysia Fulwiley, South Carolina cranked it up to remain the country’s only undefeated Division I team.

Cardoso scored three straight points and Kitts had six of her team’s next eight points to draw within 40-39. Fulwiley, the dynamic freshman, took over after that. Her basket put South Carolina in front for good and she followed with two foul shots and a spinning drive through lane that resulted in an easy basket for Ashlyn Watkins.

Georgia kept things within single digits until the final period when back-to-back 3s by Oregon transfer Paopao widened things to 60-48.

The Bulldogs (11-14, 2-10) could not respond and lost their 18th straight to the Gamecocks.

Nicholson surpassed her previous best of 24 set earlier this season against Ball State. She added 12 rebounds for her 14th double-double this year.

Paopao had 15 points off five 3-pointers as South Carolina won its 55th straight game at home. It was a record-setting fourth sellout of 18,000-seat Colonial Life Arena this season and featured College GameDay in the hour before tipoff.

Cardoso, a senior, finished with her 12th double-double this season and the 28th of her career.

It was Nicholson and the Bulldogs who pushed the pace early on with a 17-2 surge between the first and second quarters to build a 23-17 lead.

They remained ahead, 37-28 after Nicholson had a pair of three-point plays and her opening shot of the third quarter before things fell apart.

THE BIG PICTURE

Georgia: It’s been a tough season for the Bulldogs, who won 22 games and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament a season ago. They certainly looked like they had the goods to upset the country’s best team before getting overwhelmed down the stretch.

South Carolina: The Gamecocks off-again, on-again performance of late — they trailed Tennessee 28-25 at the half before winning this past Thursday night — is ripe for problems given the one-and-done nature of the NCAA Tournament.

599th WIN

South Carolina’s Staley won her 599th career game in a coaching career she never aspired to. After 172 wins in eight seasons at Temple, she’s won 427 games in 16 seasons with the Gamecocks.

“Hopefully, she’ll stay in it a lot time because she’ll break a lot more records,” Georgia coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson said.

UP NEXT

Georgia plays at Mississippi on Thursday night.

South Carolina takes on Alabama on Thursday night.

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'Magic United': Disneyland characters vote to unionize

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6 hours ago

May 18, 2024

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'Magic United': Disneyland characters vote to unionize

Updated May 18, 2024 at 23:07 PM ET

Turns out, Disneyland is not the happiest place on earth.

At least, it’s not for some of the workers who walk around the park as Mickey Mouse and Elsa and Chewbacca and other beloved Disney characters.

In a union election that ended Saturday, the Anaheim, Calif.-based performers voted overwhelmingly to unionize, by a vote of 953 to 258. The employees will be represented by Actors’ Equity Association, a union known for representing actors and stage managers on Broadway.

The election was open to some 1,700 employees in the character and parade departments, including those who roam Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park greeting visitors and performing in the daily parades.

The union campaign grew out of the pandemic, when performers started having health and safety concerns around sharing costumes and having physical contact with visitors, including hugs from adoring children.

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Disneyland Resort via Getty Images

At Disneyland, fans of a galaxy far, far away are treated to character encounters.

Like many other workers in Southern California, the Disney employees also found their base wages — which went from $20 to $24.15 in January — no match for the rising cost of living.

Calling themselves “Magic United,” the workers leading the organizing campaign called for higher wages and more reliable schedules, noting that parade performers in particular have trouble getting full-time hours.

Mai Vo, who first got a job at Disneyland at 16 and put herself through college performing as a number of Disney characters, says there’s a sense of exhaustion that comes with the job.

“[It] gets really hard to make magic when you’re burnt out,” she says.

In a statement, Disneyland said, “We support our cast members’ right to a confidential vote that recognizes their individual choices,” while noting that non-union employees do receive annual raises and paid sick leave aligned with industry standards.

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Gamecocks Lose 4-1 To No. 1 Tennessee, Suffer Back-To-Back Sweeps For First Time Since 2019

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May 18, 2024

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Gamecocks Lose 4-1 To No. 1 Tennessee, Suffer Back-To-Back Sweeps For First Time Since 2019

For the second straight weekend, South Carolina’s baseball team was unable to salvage a single game against a ranked opponent, with this sweep coming courtesy of the No. 1 Tennessee Volunteers after losing 4-1 in game three on Saturday afternoon. It’s the first time that the Gamecocks have been swept in consecutive weekends since April 26th-28th and May 3rd-5th of the 2019 season.

Dylan Eskew got the start on the bump for Carolina in game three, and despite giving up some loud outs, didn’t allow any damage, giving up just two baserunners in two innings on just 29 pitches of work. In the third inning, left-handed pitcher Matthew Becker would come onto the mound to give the Tennessee batters a different look and would get a 4-6-3 double play and another groundout to end the inning. However, things wouldn’t go as swimmingly in the fourth and fifth innings, as an RBI double in the fourth and multiple fielding miscues in the fifth would lead to four Volunteer runs.

At the plate, the Gamecocks struggled against Tennessee starter Zander Sechirst, who only allowed four Carolina baserunners in six innings. In the eighth inning, the Gamecocks would threaten, with Dalton Reeves and Talmadge LeCroy hitting singles, the latter scoring a run, to give South Carolina two baserunners with one out. However, pinch hitter Will Tippett and centerfielder Austin Brinling would strike out and fly out, respectively, and the Gamecocks wouldn’t get anyone on base in the ninth.

South Carolina will play an opponent TBA in a single-elimination first-round game in the SEC Baseball Tournament this coming Tuesday.

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Severe weather possible in South Carolina through Saturday night. Get all the details here

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May 18, 2024

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Severe weather possible in South Carolina through Saturday night. Get all the details here

Multiple rounds of showers and storms are forecast across the state through tonight. Damaging wind and hail are expected in spots. Flooding and an isolated tornado can’t be ruled out. See when storms are most and least likely in our latest forecast.

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