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Yahoo Sports: Headlinin’: Ex-hoopster is first Gamecock into the Lattimore void

Making the morning rounds.

• You're the man now, dawg, part one. Faced with the sudden absence of more than a third of its total offense, South Carolina plans to dramatically increase the role of former hoops star Bruce Ellington to fill the void left by a knee injury to All-American tailback Marcus Lattimore. Ellington, a fifth-year senior who spent his first four years on campus as starting point guard for the Gamecock basketball team, has 23 touches for 220 yards over the first seven games — the vast majority of them coming in the last three, including a 61-yard ...

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Since 2002, we've correctly projected the winner of every single Heisman Trophy contest. Starting in 2010, we're running a season-long Heisman Trophy poll, providing ongoing commentary, and aggregating the best news about the top Heisman candidates around the country.

When it comes to our projections, well, we really can't say it any better than ESPN's Neil Everett - just a few days before the 2009 winner was announced: