Clemson Sports Talk · Fox Sports Radio 1400 (WCOS-AM)

The “Rut, Reality & Rivalry Talk” Edition

April 8, 2026·1 hr 25 min·7 clips

Jamie Bradford reveals why top baseball players are leaving South Carolina for Atlanta and Florida tournaments.

Swan starts right at home. The cold open leans on the show's South Carolina roots, with Clemson-Carolina tension, Fox Sports Radio 1400, and the familiar "show that shakes the Southland" rhythm doing the setup work. Jamie Bradford comes in early. Swan frames that visit around the backyard of the South Carolina Gamecocks, so the rivalry stays close even though the excerpt only catches the lead-in. Then the hour wanders, in a very Swan way. A long Alumni Hall read turns into Clemson gear talk, with baseball items, student discounts, and store-window details he clearly enjoys sitting with. Basketball takes over after that. The men's Final Four gives him an excuse to revisit Michigan's Fab Five, the alternate broadcast, and the names from that era that still land. He does not hurry through it. Swan pauses on Chris Weber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson, while admitting the last two do not carry the same memory weight for most people. The fashion tangent is doing real work here. He uses the Fab Five's baggy shorts as the hook, compares them with the older short-shorts look, and even brings TJ Ford's long NBA shorts into the frame. That is the pace of the excerpt: tournament scheduling turns into basketball culture, and the detour still feels like it belongs at the table. The closing stretch gets wider. Flag football becomes the main question, with Swan wondering about men's and women's versions before asking what college sports might chase next. Pickleball shows up almost offhand. He says it is not in the article, then asks whether anyone would really be surprised if it appeared at the college level. The point is eyeballs. Swan figures decision-makers will follow whatever draws attention, and he says Americans would watch flag football before field hockey or even hockey. The goodbye stays pure local radio: big show tomorrow, back at four o'clock, Clemson-friendly signoff.

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Rivalry talk with enough detours to keep it from feeling stiff.

Lawton Swan keeps the drive-time hour squarely on Clemson and Carolina, with Jamie Bradford dropping in for Gamecocks talk and the conversation moving from backyard rivalry banter to Final Four memories and Fab Five nostalgia.

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Want Clemson-Carolina banter with tournament talk, nostalgia, and a few side quests?

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