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South Carolina women’s basketball and A’ja Wilson among 2024 ESPY award nominees

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A parade to honor the University of South Carolina women’s basketball NCAA national championship victory was held in downtown Columbia on April 14, 2024.
COLUMBIA — Dawn Staley will be well represented at this year’s ESPY Awards as her current team and former player A’ja Wilson combined for three nominations.
South Carolina women’s basketball is nominated for the “best team” award and Wilson is nominated for both “best WNBA player” and “best athlete, women’s sports.”
The award show is on July 11 (ABC, 8 p.m. ET), in Los Angeles, hosted by Serena Williams.
On Wednesday morning, ESPN revealed the entire list of nominees. Wilson’s current WNBA team, the Las Vegas Aces, is up against Staley’s squad for the award.
2024 ESPYS: Best team award nominees
- South Carolina Gamecocks, NCAA Women’s Basketball
- Kansas City Chiefs, NFL
- Michigan Wolverines, NCAA Football
- Las Vegas Aces, WNBA
- University of Connecticut Huskies, NCAA Men’s Basketball
- Oklahoma Sooners, NCAA Softball
- Boston Celtics, NBA
- Florida Panthers, NHL
- Texas Rangers, MLB
Every team nominated won their respective championship in the 2023-24 season.
Wilson is competing against Caitlin Clark formerly of Iowa women’s basketball and now of the Indiana Fever. Iowa lost to South Carolina in the NCAA championship on April 7. Clark plays with former Gamecocks star Aliyah Boston on the Fever, after being picked No. 1 overall in the 2024 WNBA draft.
2024 ESPYS: Best athlete, women’s sports award nominees
- Caitlin Clark, Iowa Women’s Basketball
- Coco Gauff, Tennis
- Nelly Korda, Golf
- A’ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces
Wilson’s second award is specific to the WNBA.
2024 ESPYS: Best WNBA player:
- Napheesa Collier, Minnesota Lynx
- Breanna Stewart, New York Liberty
- Alyssa Thomas, Connecticut Sun
- A’ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces
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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

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South Carolina Lottery Powerball, Pick 3 results for June 4, 2025

Powerball, Mega Millions jackpots: What to know in case you win
Here’s what to know in case you win the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot.
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The South Carolina Education Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at June 4, 2025, results for each game:
Winning Powerball numbers from June 4 drawing
05-17-23-35-45, Powerball: 24, Power Play: 10
Check Powerball payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 3 Plus FIREBALL numbers from June 4 drawing
Midday: 2-3-0, FB: 6
Evening: 3-9-6, FB: 0
Check Pick 3 Plus FIREBALL payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 Plus FIREBALL numbers from June 4 drawing
Midday: 5-0-9-6, FB: 6
Evening: 5-9-1-5, FB: 0
Check Pick 4 Plus FIREBALL payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Cash Pop numbers from June 4 drawing
Midday: 09
Evening: 09
Check Cash Pop payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Palmetto Cash 5 numbers from June 4 drawing
02-03-20-29-33
Check Palmetto Cash 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Powerball Double Play numbers from June 4 drawing
13-33-35-36-56, Powerball: 02
Check Powerball Double Play payouts and previous drawings here.
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Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
The South Carolina Education Lottery provides multiple ways to claim prizes, depending on the amount won:
For prizes up to $500, you can redeem your winnings directly at any authorized South Carolina Education Lottery retailer. Simply present your signed winning ticket at the retailer for an immediate payout.
Winnings $501 to $100,000, may be redeemed by mailing your signed winning ticket along with a completed claim form and a copy of a government-issued photo ID to the South Carolina Education Lottery Claims Center. For security, keep copies of your documents and use registered mail to ensure the safe arrival of your ticket.
SC Education Lottery
P.O. Box 11039
Columbia, SC 29211-1039
For large winnings above $100,000, claims must be made in person at the South Carolina Education Lottery Headquarters in Columbia. To claim, bring your signed winning ticket, a completed claim form, a government-issued photo ID, and your Social Security card for identity verification. Winners of large prizes may also set up an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) for convenient direct deposit of winnings.
Columbia Claims Center
1303 Assembly Street
Columbia, SC 29201
Claim Deadline: All prizes must be claimed within 180 days of the draw date for draw games.
For more details and to access the claim form, visit the South Carolina Lottery claim page.
When are the South Carolina Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 10:59 p.m. ET on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 11 p.m. ET on Tuesday and Friday.
- Pick 3: Daily at 12:59 p.m. (Midday) and 6:59 p.m. (Evening).
- Pick 4: Daily at 12:59 p.m. (Midday) and 6:59 p.m. (Evening).
- Cash Pop: Daily at 12:59 p.m. (Midday) and 6:59 p.m. (Evening).
- Palmetto Cash 5: 6:59 p.m. ET daily.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a South Carolina editor. You can send feedback using this form.
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Fourteenth Gamecock Enters the Transfer Portal

South Carolina baseball continues to see players hit the transfer portal this week. Right-handed pitcher (RHP) Ryder Garino is the latest Gamecock to look for a new home next season.
Garino joined the team as a true freshman in 2025. He made 16 appearances with one start for the Gamecocks. He finished this season with a 2-0 record with 34 strikeouts and a 5.84 ERA in 24.2 innings pitched.
Garino attended Cherry Hill West High School in Cherry Hill Twp., N.J., where he was the New Jersey Pitcher of the Year as a senior in 2024. He had a 0.39 ERA in 2024, allowing just 27 hits while striking out 94 batters with three earned runs in 53 innings of work. He threw nine complete games in the 2024 season.
This marks player number 14 to enter the portal from South Carolina since it opened on Monday. Garino joins pitcher Brendan Sweeney, catcher Max Kaufer, pitcher Eli Jerzembeck, pitcher Tyler Pitzer, infielder (INF) Nolan Nawrocki, pitcher Eddie Copper III, OF/DH Jase Woita, INF Will Tippett, pitcher Wyatt Evans, pitcher Roman Kimball, outfielder (OF) Tyler June, and INF Cayden Gasken, and catcher Ryan Bakes.
The portal will stay open until July 1.
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SC Supreme Court hears challenge to state law banning online eye exams

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – Technology that has been in existence for years can save hundreds of millions of Americans from a trip to the eye doctor’s office when they need prescription glasses or contact lenses.
Health data shows that around two-thirds of all people in the United States wear some type of corrective prescription lens.
But that technology is banned in South Carolina, despite having approval from the FDA and being allowed in nearly three dozen other states.
A nearly-decade-old state law prevents people in South Carolina from taking an eye exam online to receive a prescription for contact lenses or glasses.
One of the companies that administers these online exams is challenging this law, and it was heard before South Carolina’s Supreme Court on Tuesday in Columbia.
“South Carolina treats lenses differently than everything else doctors can prescribe online, from eye drops to skin creams to antibiotics,” said Joshua Windham, senior attorney for Institute for Justice, which is representing the company Opternative.
Windham said there is no rational reason for that different treatment, making the 2016 law unconstitutional.
Opternative is one of a number of companies that offer an online eye exam similar to how people are tested at the eye doctor’s office, but there is no doctor or assistant on the other side, administering the exam.
After that test, an actual person reviews the results and writes a prescription for lenses that customers can order online.
A lower court previously ruled in favor of upholding the law.
Attorneys for the South Carolina Optometric Physicians Association (SCOPA) want to keep the law in place, admitting they have an economic incentive to support it, so more patients visit their offices, but arguing it also ensures safe and adequate eye care.
“An interaction with a medical professional in a setting, in an in-person setting, allows for the discovery of other very prevalent health problems, like diabetes, like glaucoma, like hypertension,” Kirby Shealy, an attorney representing SCOPA, said.
Windham responded that argument could be made for most other types of telemedicine, which a separate state law generally permits, with some exceptions, including prescriptions for opioids, abortion drugs, and, of course, lenses.
“SCOPA’s argument in this case requires the court to pretend that glasses are more like opioids and abortions than skin creams and eye drops, and I don’t think this court has to pretend, under the South Carolina constitution,” Windham said.
Some justices seemed skeptical of what they described as a carveout in state law for lens prescriptions.
Chief Justice John Kittredge compared it to the availability of reading glasses at drugstores, which do not require a prescription.
“I see an eye chart, I see which one works better, and I make a choice,” he said. “Why isn’t that illegal? Do I sue Walgreens and Eckerds and CVS?”
There is no timeline for the Supreme Court to rule following Tuesday’s arguments.
The law itself was initially vetoed in 2016 by then-Gov. Nikki Haley, who said it put South Carolina “on the leading edge of protectionism, not innovation,” and sent the wrong message to the business community.
But the General Assembly overwhelmingly overrode Haley’s veto to enact the legislation.
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