Steven is an award-winning sportswriter and the Assistant Sports Editor for The Daily Journal/Messenger. He won first place for Spots Sports Story in all daily papers with circulations of less than 26,000 at the 2007 South Carolina Press Association awards. Steven has worked for The Daily Journal/Messenger since the fall of 2004, after graduating from Clemson University with a BA in English that summer.

Recent Stories

• The Tommy Bowden era- part deux
  Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
  Last week in this spot, we looked back at the early years (1999-2002) of Tommy Bowden’s tenure at Clemson in terms of turning points – those moments that helped define not only the past and the present, but also the future of the program. | Read more

• Turning points of the Tommy Bowden era
  Friday, July 25, 2008
  The year was 1998, and the Clemson Tigers were coming off a 3-8 season, a 1-7 league mark and an eighth-place finish in the league standings under then-head coach Tommy West. At that point, the once powerful Clemson program, which had dominated the ACC in the 1980s and early ’90s, was pretty much in shambles. | Read more

• USC has chance for revenge against Razors
  Thursday, July 24, 2008
  South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier, as well as the Gamecocks’ fans, are probably still having nightmares of Arkansas running back Darren McFadden running over, around and through their defense to the tune of 34 carries for 321 yards last season in Fayetteville, Ark. | Read more

• Hamilton's remarkable story far from finished
  Friday, July 18, 2008
  With all the ugliness and scandal that seems to permeate the world of baseball these days – A-Rod’s impending divorce and alleged extramarital activities, the ongoing sagas of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, etc. – Josh Hamilton’s other-worldly performance in the Home Run Derby on Monday stands out as proof that redemption, from even the darkest and ugliest of circumstances, is always possible.
  
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• Blazers no match for South Carolina on either side of ball
  Wednesday, July 16, 2008
  With the University of South Carolina standing at 4-1 at this point on our mythical mystery tour of the upcoming season, the Gamecocks should be starting to draw some attention from the national pollsters and their Sept. 27 date with UAB should be an opportunity for a blowout win. | Read more

• The next crop from Atlanta's farm
  Friday, July 11, 2008
  After coming astonishingly close to being the victims of two perfect games in a three-game series with the Dodgers this week, it’s becoming pretty clear that the Atlanta Braves would be best served by resigning themselves to the role of sellers – rather than buyers – with the MLB non-waiver trade deadline just 20 days away. | Read more

• Tigers add major in-state commit
  Thursday, July 10, 2008
  With still over six weeks until the start of their 2008 campaign, the Clemson Tigers are already up to 11 public verbal commitments for their 2009 recruiting class. | Read more

• Time for Braves to start from scratch?
  Friday, July 4, 2008
  Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. | Read more

• Fresno State: the greatest Cinderella of all?
  Friday, June 27, 2008
  As Fresno State made its improbable march through the College World Series to capture the first national title in the program’s history, the one catchphrase that was heard over and over was ‘Cinderella story.’
  
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• Questions that Clemson must answer this fall
  Friday, June 20, 2008
  Today is the first day of summer, and we all know what that means – at least in this part of the country – there’s only 71 days left until college football season officially starts, with Clemson’s 8 p.m. kickoff against Alabama at the Georgia Dome.
  
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