South-Carolina
Dawn Staley’s Super Bowl 59 prediction for her beloved Eagles: ‘Tush push us over the finish line’
South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley is confident in the Philadelphia Eagles to win Super Bowl 59.
The Eagles, Staley’s hometown team, face the Kansas City Chiefs in New Orleans on Sunday and she believes the Vince Lombardi Trophy is heading back to Pennsylvania.
“Rest assured my Eagles fans, we got this one,” Staley said Wednesday. “Now, get mad if we turn the ball over, get mad if we fumble the ball, get mad if they score on us. Just remember, when the clock strikes zero, we will be winners.”
Staley didn’t give an exact score and said she was thinking a win by two touchdowns but felt like that was a little bit bold. The Chiefs and quarterback Patrick Mahomes are trying to become the first team to win three straight Super Bowls. The Eagles last Super Bowl win was in 2018.
“But it doesn’t matter, tush push us over the finish line to get us a Super Bowl,” Staley said, in reference to a signature play call from the Eagles.
Despite South Carolina facing Texas on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET, Staley was planning on going to the Super Bowl in New Orleans but no longer can. President Donald Trump announced he will attend the Super Bowl and according to the Federal Aviation Administration, there are laws that restrict air traffic in proximity to the president. Staley said that is why she can’t go.
Ahead of the NFC Championship game on Jan. 26, Staley said she wanted a comfortable lead by the time she boarded the plane to go to Knoxville for a game on the 27th. The Eagles ended up beating the Washington Commanders 55-23.
Lulu Kesin covers South Carolina athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email her at lkesin@gannett.com and follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter, @Lulukesin
Oklahoma is once again at the center of an exciting weekend in the Southeastern Conference.
Brent Venables’ Sooners shook off the loss to Texas with a poised showing against South Carolina.
OU leaned on its running game and a dominant defensive showing to power past the Gamecocks 26-7 in the program’s first-ever trip to Williams-Brice Stadium, which set up a top 15 matchup and another first.
Ole Miss makes its inaugural trip to Gaylord-Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday (11 a.m., ABC). Lane Kiffin’s squad notched a 26-14 win over the Sooners last year in Oxford, extending the Rebels’ all-time lead in the series to 2-0.
Mississippi first defeated Oklahoma 27-25 in the 1999 Independence Bowl in Bob Stoops’ first year in Norman.
Both teams look significantly different than the teams that contested last year’s matchup.
Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart moved on to the NFL, where he now starts for the New York Giants, while the OU starting quarterback, Jackson Arnold, is struggling at Auburn.
John Mateer replaced Arnold in Norman, and he also enjoyed a bounce-back performance over the weekend.
He wasn’t asked to push the ball too far downfield in his second start since undergoing hand surgery, but Mateer did plenty.
Mateer completed 18-of-26 passes for 150 yards and a touchdown against South Carolina, and he added 14 rushing yards on eight carries. Crucially, he avoided turning the ball over, which has been a small blip on even his best performances in an OU uniform so far.
True freshman running back Tory Blaylock got the biggest workload on the ground, carrying the ball 19 times for 101 yards and a touchdown, and sophomore Xavier Robinson paired with Blaylock to rush 11 times for 58 yards and a touchdown.
The new Rebel leader is Ferris State transfer Trinidad Chambliss.
He took hold of the starting quarterback spot for Ole Miss after Austin Simmons sustained an injury earlier this year, and Chambliss hasn’t looked back.
Chambliss has completed 62.7 percent of his passes this year for 1,549 yards and eight touchdowns while throwing only one interception. He’s also totaled 323 rushing yards and five scores on the ground on 70 carries.
He completed 19-of-36 passes for 263 yards and one touchdown in Saturday’s 43-35 loss to Georgia, which represented the first setback of the year for Ole Miss.
Texas A&M and Alabama remain the only two teams that have yet to lose in SEC play this year, and OU and Mississippi are two of six teams with one loss in conference play so far. Saturday’s battle between the Sooners and the Rebels represents another key matchup in the race to see which two teams will battle for the SEC Championship in Atlanta this winter.
South-Carolina
New documentary spotlighting Alzheimer’s, dementia care in SC to screen in the Midlands
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – A new documentary screening soon in the Midlands puts a new spotlight on Alzheimer’s and dementia care in South Carolina
Two free screenings of “My Mama Joe: Hope & Help” will be held on Nov. 6 and 7, with the first being at Claflin University in Orangeburg. The second screening will be held at the Nickelodeon Theater in Columbia.
The film is described as a powerful story of love, caregiving and finding strength through the challenges of dementia.
Both screenings are free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Click here for more information.
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Ryan is co-publisher at Sooners On SI and covers a number of sports in and around Norman and Oklahoma City.
Working both as a journalist and a sports talk radio host, Ryan has covered the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the United States Men’s National Soccer Team, the Oklahoma City Energy and more.
Since 2019, Ryan has simultaneously pursued a career as both a writer and a sports talk radio host, working for the Flagship for Oklahoma sports, 107.7 The Franchise, as well as AllSooners.com.
Ryan serves as a contributor to The Franchise’s website, TheFranchiseOK.com, which was recognized as having the “Best Website” in 2022 by the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters.
Ryan holds an associate’s degree in Journalism from Oklahoma City Community College in Oklahoma City, OK.
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