Cocks Crow: New Name, Men’s Soccer, WIS

• You might have noticed that things look a little bit different around here.  We finally have a name and there’s a new masthead and a new web address.  For those of you bookmarked the old URL when the blog was unnamed, change your bookmark to https://spursupblog.wordpress.com.  The Editor also has his own Twitter feed now (@SpursUpBlog).  We’ll use the Twitter account to provide live updates of Gamecock events all season.  If you’re like me and you use an RSS feed to read your blogs and websites, click here for the RSS feed.
• Devan Downey was named to the 2009-10 John R. Wooden Award All-American Team and Player of the Year Trophy preseason top 50 candidate list yesterday.
• Preview story on men’s soccer from The Daily Gamecock.  Junior forward Sam Arthur and junior goalkeeper Jimmy Maurer were named to the Preseason All-Conference USA team yesterday.
• The women’s soccer team was picked to finish fourth in the SEC East division in a preseason coaches poll.
• Here’s an article on the new partnership between WIS Television, South Carolina Athletics and Gamecock Sports Properties.  One of the biggest pieces of the partnership is that the station will carry a minimum of 32 coaches call-in programs as live streaming broadcasts on the WIS website.