Sports Columnists
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Ken Burger |
Ken Burger is a native of Allendale, S.C., and a graduate of the University of Georgia. In the mid-1980s, Burger was the Washington, D.C., correspondent for the paper. He has been executive sports editor since 1987, writing an award-winning sports column that has been hailed as the best in the country by the Associated Press Sports Editors three times. He has been named South Carolina Sportswriter of the Year several times and in 1999 was honored as South Carolina Journalist of the Year.
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Gene Sapakoff |
Gene Sapakoff writes columns and covers a variety of sports subjects (and sometimes non-sports subjects) for The Post and Courier. An Oregon native and graduate of Colorado State University, he moved to the Lowcountry to study history and eat Frogmore Stew. He has won many national writing and reporting awards. Since 1997 he has won South Carolina Press Association awards in eight different categories. His work has appeared in The Sporting News, Sport, Sports Illustrated, California, Us, Basketball America and Pro Football Weekly.
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| ACC Sports |
Larry Williams |
A native South Carolinian who graduated from Wando High School (barely), Larry Williams became The Post and Courier’s Clemson beat reporter in January of 2004. He spent the previous five years covering college sports at The Augusta Chronicle. He has won awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Georgia Sports Writers Association, and South Carolina Press Association. He got his start in the business in 1998 at the High Point (N.C.) Enterprise, where he stayed long enough to grab a cup of coffee and meet his future wife. His passion is college football, and his favorite place to take in a game is between the hedges at Georgia’s Sanford Stadium. He considers the tailgating at Clemson second to none, however. Williams, 32, lives in Clemson with his wife. The couple is expecting its first child (a girl) in late August.
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| On the Water |
Will Haynie |
Will Haynie, a 1983 graduate of The Citadel, began covering sailing for The Post and Courier in 2005. He has worked as a spokesman for a North Carolina congressman and served as a director of the Lowcountry Open Land Trust and the Educational Foundation at Blue Ridge Community College in Hendersonville, N.C. He is the author of one book, and was previously a columnist for the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times and the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News.
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| Golf and Outdoors |
Tommy Braswell |
Tommy Braswell joined The Post and Courier in 1979, and his primary responsibilities are covering golf and outdoor sports. Braswell grew up in North Carolina and graduated from Belmont Abbey (N.C.) College. He and his wife, Ann, have one son.
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| High School Sports |
Philip Bowman |
Philip Bowman, a Charleston resident and graduate of Ohio State University, joined The Post and Courier as a news copy editor in 1996 and became the paper's high school sports beat writer in 1999. He has more than 20 years experience as a journalist and first came to South Carolina as the editor of the Diocese of Charleston's newspaper in 1991.
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| SEC Basketball |
Charles Bennett |
Charlie Bennett is the University of South Carolina beat writer for The Post and Courier and has more than 25 years experience covering sports. He got his start at the Anderson Independent-Mail in 1980 and has worked for The Aiken Standard, The Greenville News and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. His beat experience includes stints covering the University of Georgia, Clemson, LSU, Tulane, the Southeastern Conference and the New Orleans Saints. A native of Rock Hill, Bennett lives in Columbia.
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| SoCon Basketball |
Jeff Hartsell |
A 1984 graduate of the Honors College at the University of South Carolina, Jeff Hartsell has covered high school, college and professional sports, including The Masters golf tournament, since joining The Post and Courier. Hartsell has won awards from the South Carolina Press Association and twice has been named state sportswriter of the year by the National Sportswriters and Sports Broadcasters Association. He lives in Mount Pleasant with his wife Dora, and four children.
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| Wrestling |
Mike Mooneyham |
Mike Mooneyham, a writer and editor with The Post and Courier since 1979, is one of the nation's foremost authorities on professional wrestling and his weekly wrestling column has been in continuous publication longer than any other in the country. A former radio wrestling talk show host, Mooneyham is a frequent guest on sports talk shows throughout the U.S. He began writing for national wrestling magazines and other sports publications during the 1960s and has interviewed many of the industry's most influential figures. He co-authored The New York Times best-seller "Sex, Lies and Headlocks."
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| Stingrays |
Andrew Miller |
Andrew Miller graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1986 with a degree in journalism. He has worked at The Post and Courier since 1989. Miller has covered nearly every sports beat at the newspaper. Miller currently covers the NFL's Carolina Panthers, the ECHL's South Carolina Stingrays and the USL First Division's Charleston Battery.
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| On Tennis |
James Beck |
James Beck began working for newspapers in Charleston in 1971. He has served as sports editor of The News and Courier, and executive sports editor and systems editor of The Post and Courier. He has written a tennis column for the newspaper since the 1970s. He won the national U.S. Tennis Association's Media Excellence Award for 2003, becoming the first winner from the nine-state Southern Section. A native of Bamberg, Beck holds an undergraduate degree from Limestone college and a master's degree in business administration from The Citadel. He and his wife, Carrol, have two daughters.
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