When South Carolina opens its season Sept. 3 with a televised game vs. N.C. State on ESPN, Gamecocks linebacker Bryson Allen-Williams should feel at home. After all, he’s been “doing television” since May 8, when he began a summer internship at WOLO-TV, Columbia’s ABC affiliate.
Over three months, the senior from Ellenwood, Ga., did things for real that his class work toward a Mass Communications degree (he’ll graduate in December) could only simulate: preparing video for WOLO’s evening broadcasts, and writing stories for sports director Mike Gillespie and others to read on-camera.
But it wasn’t all “grunt work” for Allen-Williams.