SPARTANBURG, SC – The Spartanburg Touchdown/Tip-Off Club opens its 2006-07 season on Friday, Sept. 8, with Wofford College head football coach Mike Ayers as the featured speaker.

The club meets from noon to 1 p.m. at the Spartanburg Marriott at Renaissance Park.  Cost is $10 for members and $15 for guests; no reservations are required, and you can pay at the door.

Individual memberships are available for $75 per year.  Corporate memberships (for four employees) are $200.  A Lunch Table Membership, which includes four lunch passes per meeting, is $500.  To join, send your name, address, telephone number(s) and e-mail address, along with a check (payable to Spartanburg Touchdown/Tip-Off Club) to PO Box 182, Spartanburg, SC  29304.

The club meets Sept. 9 through Dec. 15 and Jan. 5 through May 25, 2007, at the Marriott.  In addition to the featured speakers, the club presents awards to outstanding high school and college student-athletes.

Here is the line-up of the season’s speakers:

SEPTEMBER
September 8 – Mike Ayers, head football coach, Wofford College
September 15 – Eric Hyman, athletics director, University of South Carolina
September 22 – Terry Don Phillips, athletics director, Clemson University
September 29 – Bobby Lamb, head coach, Furman University

OCTOBER
October 6 – George Rogers, Heisman Trophy winner, and Willie Scott, both great former football players from the University of South Carolina
October 13 – Brad Scott, assistant had coach, Clemson University
October 20 – Phil Kornblut, sports talk radio host, South Carolina Network
October 27 – Don Yaeger, Sports Illustrated assistant editor

NOVEMBER
November 3 – Bill Rosinski, Sports Talk on ESPN 1400 and the Carolinas
November 10 – Jim Szoke, Carolina Panthers color commentator and sports director of WBT Radio
November 17 – Danny Ford, national champion Clemson University former football coach and hero
November 24 – Pete Yanity, Clemson University sports announcer and NewsChannel 7 sports director, and Todd Ellis, University of South Carolina former quarterback and radio play-by-play announcer

DECEMBER
December 1 – Dave Odom, head basketball coach, University of South Carolina
December 8 – Oliver Parnell, head basketball coach, Clemson University
December 15 – 2006 Shrine Bowl Luncheon

JANUARY
January 5 – Area high school basketball head coaches

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