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Gene Sapakoff of the Charleston Post&Courier wrote
Mar 6, 2014, 4:26 PM
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a column recently (after the usuck series) chiding Clemson pitchers for "pumping their fist" after a strikeout or after getting a big out.
And yet, after usuck basketball coach Frank Martin humiliated another player with a profanity-laced tirade during their game against Florida or after the chicken crowd was assessed a double technical foul for throwing debris on the court, ol' Gene's been noticeably quiet.
Perhaps there WAS something to a letter written to the editors of the P&C last week and signed by two current presidents of Lowcountry IPTAY clubs and one former president taking the newspaper to task for an obvious bias thats permeates their sports pages.
Then again, I suppose all us Clemson fans could be mistaken about the local media.
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It's not like he did it at their dugout
Mar 6, 2014, 4:35 PM
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I don't see anything wrong with baseball players showing some emotion. I'd say that getting a double play (I think that's what it was) when they were threatening to tie the game up is something worth getting excited about if you have a pulse. As stuffy as these guys are, I wonder what they'd have done if we reacted the way they did to Greiner's GS or to getting out of some jams we put them in.
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Gene Jack (errr Sapakoff) is a moron....
Mar 6, 2014, 4:40 PM
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working for a Capon propaganda rag (The Charleston News & Spurrier).
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My wife asked me this morning if I wanted to cancel the
Mar 6, 2014, 4:41 PM
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Post and Courier subscription because I complain in the mornings about their obvious bias against the Tigers in their sports coverage.
The beat writer for Clemson is an obvious SEC sycophant who goes negative all the time. It seems to be a department wide problem.
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I stopped subscribing to that rag a couple of years ago.
Mar 6, 2014, 4:48 PM
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Their sports section is a joke, and their coverage of Clemson is minimal.
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Re: I stopped subscribing to that rag a couple of years ago.
Mar 6, 2014, 10:24 PM
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Some Gamecock fans have called him Gene "Tiger" Sapakoff for his pro-Clemson pieces. Fans always think the media is out to get their team.
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Re: Gene Sapakoff of the Charleston News&Courier wrote
Mar 6, 2014, 4:43 PM
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No you are correct. I have been reading the Post and Courier since I was a teenager and it has basically been turned into another "The State". Sapakoff is an SEC homer, Ryan Wood is a coot beat writer who never writes anything negative about USuC and sees it as the ultimate university, and they publish Korncoot's fiction each week. I don't even bother reading the sports section anymore. But, don't worry, they will answer the Letter to the Editor about them being bias. It will be a very sarcastic response.
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It's a travesty what McClatchy did to The State
Mar 6, 2014, 4:48 PM
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The State used to give each team pretty fair treatment back when I was in high school (early 2000s). USC would typically get the front of the sports page but Clemson would get the entire back page. Seems about right for a paper based in Columbia. It would have color photos for both though, and The State had a beat writer for each.
Now it is seriously a Coot U propaganda rag EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR. I kid you not, all throughout the year they are on the FRONT page (either a picture and headline at the top or an actual story), not just the front of the sports page. Next to zero Clemson coverage anymore, just stuff copied from the Greenville news or Anderson Independent Mail. I just can't see how that is a better business model than trying to be a paper that appeals to the entire state (as its name suggests).
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Gene Sapakoff was my baseball coach years ago
Mar 6, 2014, 5:00 PM
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I'm talking little league, and he was super nice then, but of course being a journalist he has to write what people want to read. And unfortunately in Charleston, that is mainly pumping Scar.
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And his son is a huge Clemson fan.***
Mar 7, 2014, 1:16 AM
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Who reads the paper anymore?
Mar 6, 2014, 5:55 PM
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Just trying to grab an audience to sell more papers.
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It doesn't make a lot of sense for a paper to alienate the
Mar 6, 2014, 6:00 PM
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fans that can actually read.
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Thanks for the post....While I'm not familiar with the
Mar 6, 2014, 9:15 PM
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Charleston paper, if it's anything like "The State" here in Columbia, then it's only a shell of its former self.
The leadership here has given itself to pandering largely to Gamecock interests, while giving Clemson short shrift, even considering the thousands of CU alumni and fans residing in the Midlands. Perhaps, the greatest blunder of recent memory, one that brought scorn across the nation from other media types, was the Morris/Spurrier fiasco.
Their argument, of course, would be one of economics. My counter would suggest balanced, non-prejudicial coverage would, also, reap greater revenue from business leaders loyal to Clemson. Additionally, in my opinion they are guilty of a lack of journalistic integrity with the obvious bias in their writing. The Clowney speeding series comes to mind.
Lastly, I have no doubts that the likes of Herman Helms, Bill Rone and Bill Workman, all former editors at "The State," among others would cringe at the paper, as it now exists. It's no longer a major daily...it's a local fish wrapper.
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Did a couple of good stories about Pro day and Q B compete
Mar 6, 2014, 9:31 PM
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competition today - at least they have a beat writer for us, who does a pretty good job, unlike The Coot!
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He also missed the USuC pitchers doing same in game one
Mar 6, 2014, 9:35 PM
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and two of the series.
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Re: Gene Sapakoff of the Charleston Post&Courier wrote
Mar 7, 2014, 4:36 AM
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Wow....you missed the whole point of that article. Martin cussing a player is NOT going to motivate the other team. He suggested that the Clemson players pumping their fist was a motivation for the South Carolina players to bear down and take care of business. Two different episodes with two different possible results.
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I think people are reading too much into both episodes.***
Mar 7, 2014, 11:29 AM
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Re: Gene Sapakoff of the Charleston Post&Courier wrote
Mar 7, 2014, 10:22 AM
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Isn't Sapakoff a Clemson grad?
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Don't think so.***
Mar 7, 2014, 11:37 AM
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Re: Gene Sapakoff of the Charleston Post&Courier wrote
Mar 7, 2014, 10:30 AM
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if this had been a Clemson coach it would have been on the front page... but since it is c$$t coach they said that the one article would be all said about it..more EXTREME BIAS!!!
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