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 | In these times of hardship, when people are losing their jobs and homes, when the value of everything is contracting, when international markets are adjusting to a new world order, college sports still walks around with a cocky strut as if it were immune to economic reality. Just last month, Clemson University thought nothing of paying football coach Tommy Bowden a $3.5 million buyout bonus not to coach the football team anymore. That's after they paid him more than $15 million over the past decade and kept renewing his contract so he would stay. | ||
 | Black athletes eased Obama's path to White House Sport can't cause a society to change course suddenly, the way this earthquake of an election can. Instead, like an aftershock, sport produces ripples that nudge people in a different direction. Aggressive offense invigorates ClemsonCLEMSON â€" Clemson interim football coach Dabo Swinney says Billy Napier is "like a kid in a candy store" as he embraces and shapes his new playcalling role. Eleven ACC teams have division title hopesCLEMSON â€" It's the first week of November, and 11 ACC teams still have legitimate hope of winning their divisions. Return of Satan, um, SabanCOLUMBIA â€" A little more than a year ago, when South Carolina played at LSU, a T-shirt caught my eye as I waded through traffic to the media parking lot.  | ||
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