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8 W Friday, September 20, 1985
THE GAMECOCK
Professional
Money for i
Patrick Ewing got his mo
the question is, will the Nc
their money's worth?
The former Georgetown cc
with the NBA team on a cot
him up to $15 million over s
for being seven feet tall and
Granted, Ewing is a great
tag is a little too much for sc
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ivicuiy ui us win uui uc auit i
our collcctive lifetimes;
athletes, despite their ability,
Or are they? The debat<
years, and both sides hav
Those who feel players an
athletes arc no different fror
fessional occupations, just n
Those of the other opinii
are special, in that they ca
others in this world can do,
to the king's ransoms being
also entertainers, and don'
make big bucks?
Still others say owners, nc
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ue uiameu. i ney nave nv
ultimately dccidc on what
sporting world reccivc for tl
To simplify this issue furtl
question: Who is more vali
player, who can run and jum
a teacher who helps build
player who can hit the bs
policeman who saves lives? 1
fairly obvious.
Yet the teacher doesn't mi
cop doesn't get a signing bor
force. Why should young n
significant things in the coui
in higher esteem? The logic
questions escapes me.
So the original question their
money's worth ? maj
that should be asked. It si
worth the money? You deci
Tom Gat to is a staff writei
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:nter agreed to terms
itract that could net "r"
even years. Not bad
able to play a game.
talent, but the price
,me fans to swallow. ? Rfl
o make that much in ....
thus, professional through six gnmos.
, arc vastly overpaid. I I
s has ?aged on for 1 I
e vah arguments. ^
2 overpaid say thai g Tfl|yY TH0MpS0N
n those in other pro- *. .
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nore visible. ? , .. _
on feel that athletes F?"back Jim Son
n do what very few *? power USC t
and thus are entitled the Gamecock soco
: paid out. They arc lor^ a?ains| "? oss'
t actors and singers USC ^ defense 1
against Mercer as
It the nlavers. should moved back 10 ,hc
e money, and they still-injured Benedik
the "stars" of the Goalkeeper Warn
Heir "efforts." ^y <icfensiv<
icr, ask yourself this *"r?L * ?I
aable? A basketball . They (the defei
ip and slam dunk, or senior team capt
minds? A baseball I?3,!?
ill nine miles, or a field, and Billy (H
fhe answer should be plays in the back.
me.
ike seven figures; the Sonefeld, a nati
,..c ,u.. Gamecocks on the
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len who do very few match when he hea<
se of history be held in for his second g<
used to answer these worked exa(
Sonefeld said. "Ma
- will the Knicks get ?ot kicked over to r
' not be the question un the back P?s*. ai
tiould be: Is all this and the soal, so I ji
ide. it."
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iruises past
booted
Mercer'
efeld netted two goals Wednes- "I to<
o a 4-0 win over Mercer, giving Ratcliff
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had a slightly different look 1 cut it
center midfielder Billy Hency could."
sweeper position to replace the
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en Lipka said he was not alarm- 4 JQ
i role-swapping that has taken *
> goal. *
lse) came through big today," H
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is good. They had a solid mid- N ^
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I feel safe with him in front of n
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board in the first minute of the U
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ne (by a Mercer defender). I was M |
id there was nothing between me E2 j
ust stuck my head out and 1 had U
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than a minute later when he U I
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in a shot off his left foot from just outside
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, USC's leading goal scorer. "One of the ped ol
rs knocked it out, and 1 got the ricochet on said,
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to my left foot and hit it as quickly as I Crow*
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