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Wednesday, August 5, 1987 ^ 5
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Sports Guy
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I didn't want to do this, I
swear.
It's not my fault; I thought I
was done writing columns last
week.
First, let me explain.
Our Sports editor emeritus,
Jeff Shrewsbury, was supposed
to send me a column for this
W issue. He's working in a small
town this summer: Mavberrv. I
think, but that's not important.
Anyway, either the horsedrawn
mail carriage broke down
or he just plain didn't send the
dang thing. I'd have called him,
but I don't think they have
phones way out there.
The bottom line is, I have to be
somewhere in an hour and there's
not enough time to go down to
the store and pick up a
"McColumn."
Sure, this might be a good excuse
for one of those sappy, endof-semester
thank you notes, but
that's not the Sports Guy's style.
fa Instead, it's time for evasive
1 ^ action.
I'm gonna take a rag tag bunch
of stolen comedy standards and
turn them into a lean, mean column
machine. But first, a Top
3 iu lisi;
I Top 10 perfectly good sports
words for phrases) the editor
won't let me use in a column:
10. Niners
9. cage clash
8. grid squad
7. b-ball tourney
6. 'Frisco
5. fungo
4. groin pull
1 3. chapped
I 2. Cincy
>( 1. flummoxed Zupko
Now here are some
superlatives:
Worst Nickname: David
"Root Beer" Johnson. Now this
nickname might be good for
marketing later on. For instance,
he could change it to "Lite Beer"
and sign a big endorsement
Sports hri
Intramurals
k % With the Miimmpr in
^ 5 tramural/rccrcational sports
season coming to a close, it's time
to crown the champions.
That has already been done in
voll< ball, where The InternationaiS
beat Navy. Meanwhile,
two other sports are set to con
elude, said intramural director
Bruce Butrym.
f ;
In softball, only nine teams remained
at press time. Co-rec
I teams Nobility, Noble Deviants,
Shrubs and CSD remained, as did
men's teams Noble Deviants,
Psychos, Killer Angels, Average
White Boys and Rear Entries.
Both championships will be
if | w decided Thursday evening.
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For the time being, however, a
defensive end needs a tougher
nickname. How about "Death"
Johnson. It already says "D.
Johnson" on the back of his
uniform. Let the people think it's
his real name.
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"Air Kendall" basketball shoes,
named after the former
Gamecock center.
Honorable Mention: The Bob
Horner Diet Plan.
Best story of the summer: the
Mark Breland vs. Whoever boxing
match. Who cares if the story
kept changing faster than the
Sports Guy could get it into the
paper, it sure filled up a lot of
space.
Worst story of the summer:
Kraftv Hams throttled in in
tramural volleyball tournament.
The Gamecock's entry
floundered from the beginning.
Another Top 10 list:
Top 10 headlines I'd like to
write this fall:
10. "Gamecocks whip Oklahoma
for national title 55-21"
9. "Guidry no-hitter gives Yanks
world series win over Mets"
8. "Beer vendor finds $1,000,000
at Columbia Mets game"
Oh, I'm sorry, I never told you
I sold beer. Well, maybe if you
came oui to a game every once in
awhile you'd find out for
yourself, you jerk!
You think this is easy, being
Sports Guy by day and Beer Gu>
by night! Yeah, it's real easy tc
just sit there and laugh at m>
suffering!
I've got a good mind to just.,
i u s t
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
The Sports Guy was sedatec
and is now resting comfortably it
the Bobcat Goldthwait Hortu
for the Terminally Stressed. Hi
now sits quietly all day, to tall)
flummoxed.
Ws
| fVBA title
It's finally final.
In South Carolina's first majo
championship boxing match
Mark Breland will fight Marloi
Starling for the World Boxinj
Association welterweight titli
Aug. 22 at The Townshij
auditorium.
The card begins at 3 p.m. witl
the main event expected fo
around 4:30.
Breiana, a ive^ uiympic goi<
medalist, is 18-0 with 1
knockouts, while Starling, th
I top-ranked challenger, is 40with
24 knockouts.
: ABC will carry the fight on it
"Wide World of Sports" pro
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blacked-out locally.
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coach George Felton has faced a Another
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Scott Cook's C
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By RICHARD BREEN
Sports Editor
Scott Cook's performance at the recent
U.S. Olympic Festival may have sent him
down a shaft ? a shaft leading into a gold
mine.
The USC soccer player's experience and explosiveness
helped the South team to a festival
gold medal and may have put him in line to
make this year's Pan American Games and
next year's Olympic team.
"He entered the festival as a proven performer,"
USC head soccer coach Mark Ber
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son saia. 1 minK nis experience reauy neipea
Sharpe getting
By RICHARD BREEN diplomas.
1 Sports Editor degree in
USC football wingback Sterl- and now
ing Sharpe is spending his sum- retailing,
mer getting things done. In body, He'll b
i mind and character, the All- real worli
America candidate is becoming most stud
well-prepared for life after USC. Sharpe
; The Glennville, Ga., native time this
' was named to the strength and state to f
> conditioning Ail-American team. abuse.
' It honors players whose dedication
to conditioning has paid off "We v
on the field. system,
"I came here weighing 178 Sharpe s;
pounds," Sharpe said. "It's very helps bee
hard to compete on the college listen to
/ level (at that size)." nothing g
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? and his size and ability has pro The m
? scouts taking notice. "Be Fre<
\> As for academics, Sharpe will appears i
leave USC next year with two on the fit
practice New
It's now only a matter of days The 1<
r before two Gamecocks teams the Year
begin practice. head th
^ Freshman football players are program,
g due to report Monday, with
e Gamecock returnees due back Bailey
3 four days later. Physicals are coach i
scheduled for Aug. 15. Universit
ti Non-contact drills begin Aug. past two
r 17, and the Gamecocks will start with mer
putting on the pads Aug. 20.
i Two-a-day practice sessions "Kris ]
5 will last until Aug. 28, the day job hand
e before classes begin. women's
4 USC will open its season at but the |
home against Appalachian State swim tea
s Sept. 5. bring in
i- Meanwhile, the USC soccer work w
e team will start getting ready for gram,"
their 1987 opponents Aug. 15. Bob Mai
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t month hasn't been smooth for USC Univer:
tball coach George Felton. LSU
irk Greiner, his part-time assistant, left. eluded,
lined to comment. Previously, all the ex- center !
would say was, "I won't be coming raised ;
fair ad
as lost a key member of his recruiting Chili
11. same p
Jackson, a 6-7 forward, was declared made ?
ly ineligible. A victim of the National
\thletic Association's tougher qualifying Mea
Jackson will head to junior college. situati*
ting his grades up and honing his skills at disassc
0 Junior College in Pasadena, Texas, The
1 Jackson would return to USC for his will gi
ears of school. anythi
stressful situation has been the Jim Felt
mtroversy. Childers, the head basketball week.
Olympic Festival
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the team." i
Berson coached the victorious South team
in the Festival, but it's doubtful anyone
would say Berson showed favoritism in using
Cook. In fact, Cook, a midfielder, scored
every goal for the South in their bronze
medal-winning effort in 1986.
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much from the 1987 South squad, Cook or no
Cook.
Indeed, it almost became a Cook-less team
after he went down with an injury in the first
week of Festival training. The injury kept him
out of a scrimmage and forced Berson to
; ready for NF]
He already has a
business administration B01f7MKT^f
yor^ within the school ^
mostly junior nigns, J* . * y/
aid. "Being an athlete &
ause the kids will really i$55!5E?95!555r . JE,
you. We tell them that * " **" *
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ime of the program is
; to Succeed." Sharpe
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;ld and off. and off the field.
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is coming to USC to coach Rick Sofield is
e women's swimming head coach at the Un
Utah.
Sofield worked
Weathers, women's Gamecocks from 198;
at Southern Illinois earning an undergrade
y-Carbondale for the "I think it's a big o]
years, will split duties for him," USC head c
l*s coach Kris Kirchner. Raines said. "They've
young, enthusiastic m;
Kirchner has done a fine job."
ling both the men's and
swimming programs, Sofield had spent th<
growth of our women's as head baseball coacl
im necessitated that we ford High School in
an outstanding coach to N.J. A former major-1
ith the women's pro- fielder with the Minnes
USC athletic director Sofield came to Carol
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it Lower Richland High School, announced llgj
uld join the staff at Louisiana State teg
sity. pig
happens to be one of the schools, USC in- pp
, in the recruitment hunt for prized L.R. |?|g
Stanley Roberts. Questions were immediately tag
as to whether or not LSU had gained an un- ||pj
vantage by hiring Childers. tSp
iers then announced he had been offered the jgSg
osition by Felton, but Felton denied that he pgf
nwhile, the NCAA began looking into the p?|
an and hinted Childers would have to till
)ciate himself from the recruiting of Roberts. jpl
NCAA backed down on that possibility, but Bi
ve a report Thursday. Childers isn't saying ta
ng more until then. pi
on is holding a basketball camp at USC this p|
showing may I
lational team I
make strategic adjustments. !
"We decided to use his explosiveness com- S
ing off the bench," Berson said. K?
The move paid off. The South went m
undefeated into the gold medal match, a 1-0
win over the North.
Cook started and played 70 minutes in that p;
game, as the winning goal was scored in the pi
game's waning moments. p
Whether the Festival has put Cook on the gj
road to future gold will be decided by selec- |?
tion committees, but the 5-8 spark plug could p
be standing tall on annthpr mrHalicf'c nipt- U
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ie, shown here running a reverse, is a leader on
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i Tennis coach
it baseball Ron Smarr, who left as head
; the new coach of the USC tennis team to
iversity of enter the real estate business, is
coming back to the sport.
with the
5-86 while Smarr will take over the
ate degree. University of Colorado tennis
pportunity program Thursday after a threeoach
June year absence from coaching,
j gotten a
an for the "It's a real good situation,"
Smarr said Sunday after returning
home from a father-son tour2
past year nament win. ''I missed
i at Cran- coachine."
Cranford,
eague out- In 13 years at USC, Smarr
ota Twins, posted a 319-86 record. During
lina at the that time, the Gamecock pros.
gram earned national respect.
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