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8 THE GAMECOCK Wednesday, January 27, 1988
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boxing lessons.
In a boxing match this past Friday,
which was billed as a classic contest
between youth and experience, present
heavyweight champion "Iron"
Mike Tyson pummeled former champion
Larry Holmes into dreamland.
Tyson knocked Holmes down
three times in the fourth round
before the referee stopped the fight.
Holmes, 38, should never have
been in the ring with 21-year-old
Tyson. Tyson mercilessly pounded
the former champion until Holmes
dropped to the canvas at the end of
the round.
The referee halted the massacre
without counting Holmes out, as the
fighter was obviously unable to
continue.
The most troubling aspect of the
story is that Holmes should have
known better. After all, lie fought
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much too old to be in the ring.
Ali was silly enough to fight when
Holmes was near his peak as a boxer.
Many observers at the time believed
Ali boxed again because he needed
the money.
But that was a flimsy excuse.
Ali was ? and still is ? one of the
most famous sports figures in
American history.
He could have used his name
recognition to endorse all types of
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see the self-proclaimed "greatest of
all time" win the heavyweight championship
once more.
Holmes battered Ali around the
ring that night.
Today, Ali has Parkinson's Syndrome,
which slurs his speech and
makes his muscle coordination virtually
nonexistent.
A direct link between his health
and past boxing wars has not been
established. But it's probably safe to
say Ali is "punch drunk."
Now, Holmes has to fear the same
fate. Tyson's right hand did enough
damage to give anyone health
problems.
Hopefully, Tyson will remember
the lessons of boxing history when
his time has passed.
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fans who expected him to fool Father
Time, but he can't fool his body. One
day soon, it will show the effects of
getting hammered by Tyson's fists.
Then he won't be able to laugh so
hard.
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Freshman guard Brent Price
scored a career-high 29 points Monday
to lead USC to an 80-72 Metro
Conference victory over Florida
State and lift the Gamecocks into a
three-way tie for first in the league.
Price, whose previous scoring best
was a 19-point effort in a nonconference
victory this past month
over Alabama, matched a conference
record with seven three-point field
goals. He hit on 10 of 12 shots, including
seven of nine from threepoint
ranee, as the Gamecocks shot
61 percent for the game.
"He's a chip off.the old block, a
great shooter," said Florida State
coach Pat Kennedy, referring to
Price's brother Mark, a former
Georgia Tech star now in the NBA.
"The kid was phenomenal."
Junior forward John Hudson added
15 points before fouling out for
USC, now 12-4 overall. The
Gamecocks, Southern Mississippi
and Florida State all stand 3-1 in
league play.
Junior George McCloud scored 23
points, and Tony Dawson added 19
for Florida State to end a six-game
winning streak as it lost for the second
straight year at home to USC.
Price's torrid first-half shooting,
which included a three-point field
goal at the buzzer, sent the
Gamecocks into a 41-23 advantage at
intermission.
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"He can shoot it and, besides that,
he's a competitor, and I like that,"
said USC head coach George Felton.
"Any team who can get a couple of
wins on the road in our conference
will finish first, second or third."
Florida State, now 11-5 overall,
took an early 8-4 lead, but Price hit
three of his three-pointers in a 21-6
USC spurt that gave the Gamecocks
a 25-14 lead.
Florida State could manage to get
no closer than eight points, 29-21, for
the rest of the half as USC riddled the
Seminoles' zone defense, hitting 17
of 28 shots.
"We probably stayed in our zone
too long in the first half, thinking
they'd miss a few of those long ones,
but Price just kept putting them
down, and we got further and further
behind," Kennedy said.
The Seininoles scored the first
seven points of the second half to
pull within 41-30 before USC
answered with a 12-4 burst to go
ahead 53-34.
The Gamecock win was their sixth
on the road this season. They are also
6-0 at Frank McGuire Arena and will
attempt to keep that unbeaten streak
alive when they take on Southern
Mississippi aaiuraay.
The Golden Eagles manhandled
USC in their most recent meeting
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