Moss moving closer to picking staff
By LARRY HILLIARD Ledger Sports Editor larry@gaffneyledger.com
      New Blacksburg High football coach Mickey Moss plans to have his staff in place within 10 days. Moss said two members of his current Wren High School staff will join him at Blacksburg. "We are just trying to work out the details," he said.
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Pfeiffer ousts Saints
By LARRY HILLIARD Ledger Sports Editor larry@gaffneyledger.com
      Pfeiffer didn't wait long to get revenge. Just three days after losing at Limestone, Pfeiffer defeated the Saints 86-80 in the first round of the Conference Carolinas tournament on Monday. The Saints end their season with a 10-17 overall record while the Falcons improve to 21-7 on the season.
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Lady Indians slam Spartanburg
By LARRY HILLIARD Ledger Sports Editor larry@gaffneyledger.com
      The Gaffney High softball team hardly broke a sweat in a season-opening 24-1 win over Spartanburg on Monday.
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Goins leads Gaffney golfers to eighth-place finish
By LARRY HILLIARD Ledger Sports Editor larry@gaffneyledger.com
      For first-year Gaffney High golf coach Todd Coggins, the Outback Invitational was an encouraging start for his team. The Indians shot a 319 to finish eighth out of 24 teams. Dutch Fork won the event with a 295.
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BRIEFS
      Cherokee Speedway results SUPER LATE MODEL: 1. 20- Jimmy Owens (Newport, TN) 2. 2- Dennis Franklin (Gaffney, SC) 3. 0- Scott Bloomquist (Mooresburg, TN) 4. 44-Chris Madden (Gaffney, SC) 5.
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Green Bay QB Favre retires after 17 seasons
ASSOCIATED PRESS
      GREEN BAY, Wis. - Another Super Bowl, another record, another roar from the crowd - none of it was enough. Brett Favre couldn't stomach the thought of forcing his battered body and mind through another year of tedious practices and merciless hits, only to have another chance at a championship yanked away in an instant.
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Race car owner critical of Vegas walls; track vows to fix them
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      CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Team owner Rick Hendrick thinks NASCAR should not return to Las Vegas Motor Speedway until the retaining wall Jeff Gordon slammed into is improved. Special barriers are located in the outside walls at Las Vegas. But the track did not install them along the inside wall, which the four-time NASCAR champion hit in the closing laps Sunday.
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