COLUMBIA, S.C. — There's a soundtrack that plays in Jermaine Singletary's head every time he thinks about the amazing Gamecock National Championship Women's Basketball season. It's a song he ...

But South Carolina’s fight song, “The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way,” now approaching its 55th anniversary, can still claim to be one of the more distinctive fight songs in the country.

Dec 19, 2024; Columbia, South Carolina, USA; South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley directs her team against the Charleston Southern Buccaneers in the second half at Colonial Life Arena.

At football games, where South Carolina’s Sandstorm was born, white towels are distributed to the students and others and waved in well-constructed cadence when the song is played.

South Carolina also has a costumed character named "Cocky the Gamecock." Cocky represents the Gamecocks, which is the nickname for the university's sports teams.

Saturday's game between South Carolina and Jacksonville State will feature Gamecock-on-Gamecock violence in Williams-Brice Stadium. That is, of course, because both teams proudly sport the name ...