After landing three wide receivers via the transfer portal during the first open window of the offseason, South Carolina added two more potential playmakers during the post-spring opening in Dalevon Campbell and Vandrevius Jacobs.

Now, those additions are one step closer to being official.

“They signed their stuff this week,” head coach Shane Beamer said Tuesday night at the Spartanburg stop on the Welcome Home Tour. “Get them in here in a couple weeks and see how they can help us.”

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The 6-foot-4, 218-pound Campbell tallied 69 receptions for 1,053 Yards and three touchdowns during the last two seasons combined at Nevada. He has one year of eligibility left and brings added size to a position that isn’t heavy on it.

“With Dalevon, he’s a guy that has played a lot of football, been very productive as a player,” Beamer said. “We were looking after spring practice to try to add a little bit more size to that room. He’s a big receiver as well, and he’ll certainly help us there. He’s a veteran guy.”

Jacobs, a former four-star prospect who redshirted as a freshman last year, is an intriguing player in that he has a full four years of eligibility left.

He caught three passes for 60 yards and a touchdown last season with Florida State and was still able to maintain his redshirt status.

“He’s a guy that highly recruited to come into high school, and he can run. And that’s what we like,” Beamer said. “He’s still young. I like the fact that he’s still got four more years of college as well.”

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The two newcomers will soon join a receiving corps that continues to be wide open as the Gamecocks look to replace most of last year’s production.

“Really, all we know about (the portal additions) right now is talking to high school coaches, talking to their coaches where they came from, spending time with them when they came in on a visit, watching their tape that they had going into this season,” Beamer said. “We’ll find out even more about him once they get on campus. But two great young men. Really enjoyed visiting with when they were here on visits and excited about how they can just continue to add to the overall depth and competition in that receiver room.”

Thursday, May 9, marked the end of the 2024 regular session of the South Carolina General Assembly.

Items that did not pass include a hate crimes bill, a proposal permitting medical marijuana use, liquor stores being open on Sundays and expansion …

TEL AVIV, Israel — The United Nations saidone of its workers was killed and another injured when their U.N.-marked vehicle was struck in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Monday. It was on its way to assess the situation at the European Hospital there.

The Israeli military said in a statement that it had received a report from the U.N. Department of Safety and Security that two of its workers were injured. It also said that in an initial investigation, the vehicle hit was traveling in what the military declared an active combat zone. The Israeli military also said that it didn’t receive notice of the vehicle’s route.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “deeply saddened” by the news and called for a full investigation. He saidmore than 190 U.N. workers have been killed in Gaza since October and that all humanitarian workers must be protected.

A U.N. reportpublished on Friday said 254 aid workers had been killed in Gaza as of April 30. That includes seven aid workers from the humanitarian food organization World Central Kitchen who were killed in an Israeli airstrike at the beginning of April.

Human Rights Watch said in a reportpublished Tuesday that Israeli forces have struck aid worker convoys and properties in Gaza at least eight times since the beginning of the war. The report said this happens even while aid groups are in constant communication with Israeli officials about coordinates.

Fighting in Gaza intensified over the past week, as the Israeli military ramped up its operation in Rafah. Reutersreported on Tuesday that tanks rolled deeper into the city. The U.N. saidthat half a million Palestinians have been forcibly displaced across Gaza, with 450,000 of them being from Rafah, where almost 1.3 Palestinians were sheltering.

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