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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1988 cnrtDTOi mic iirun a jliive; A QUICK READ ON TOP SPORTS NEWS OF THE DAY BASKETBALL _ No Games Scheduled FOOTBALL No Games Scheduled ^ BASEBALL No Games Scheduled HOCKEY No Games Scheduled INJURIES: Phoebe Mubarak was critically injured Thursday at the P.E. Center during a full-contact Chess Match witi Clemson. Mubarak, a 6-1 junior from Cleveland, was tryinj to castle out of turn and his opponent objected. Mubarak saic something in Ohioan and stood up. A melee ensued. Mubaral was undefeated in the Region with a record of 20-0. 10 o those wins were by knockout. FINAL FOUR: The NCAA announced Thursday that thi ticket price for the Final Four will now be raised to $650. Th< move comes alter a charter member said the wrong kind o crowd was getting into the tournament finals. The membe said because the ticket prices were under $100, "just anyom and their uncles could get in. We need to keep the riff-raf out." SIGNING: USC's player-coach BoyGeorge Felton announcet 9 Thursday the signing of 6-foot-10-inch Moses Malone to j letter of intent to play for the Gamecocks next season Malone, 58, has never played collegiate basketball and thi NCAA gave him four years of eligibility even though he ha been a professional for 15 years. MONDAY NIGHT: Soccer will replace football on Monda: Night Football from now on, said Roone Arledge of ABC The sport from across the sea will be broadcast at 9 p.m. ever; Monday beginning in September. Howard Cosell will tak< over the play-by-play while Dick Vitale will be colo commentator. COLLEGE HOOPS: In another wild announcement today the NCAA in conjunction with the NBA, said the winner o this year's Final Four will replace the Los Angeles Clippers ii the NBA. As an added bonus, the LA Clippers' members wi! get to complete their education on the remaining eligibility o the players who replaced them. VITALE MISSING: Color commentator and heir apparent a ^ the loudest man in television, Dick Vitale was reporte< ^ missing Thursday. Friends said the balding 56-year old'jus walked out of a basketball game and hasn't been heard fron since. Foul play has not been ruled out. His last words as i stands now are . . . tnat s it, oaoy! l ne party s over, ineta lady is doing aerobics. I've had quality PT. I'm what colleg basketball is all about. I came here to play, but I can hold m; head high." CHAIN REACTION: The hiring of Dick Bestwick as USC'i new athletic director set off a bizarre series of job changes ii the world of sports. Herschel Walker, the Dallas Cowboys fullback, will retire to take over Bestwick's former position a the University of Georgia. Bo Jackson will fill in for Walker as well as keep his jobs with the Kansas City Royals, Lo Angeles Raiders and Harlem Globetrotters. All this prompte< New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner to fire manage Billy Martin and general manager Lou Piniella and replac them with former manager Yogi Berra and New York Mets centerficlder and ex-Gamecock Mookie Wilson. use SNAPSHOTS A look at the stupid statistics that make up our school Top Australian Rules Football Teams Ed's Lager Barn, Sydney, 705-1 Matilda's Love Muffins, Perth, 1-1 Jocco's Battery Club, Outback, 0-0 Paul Hogan's Fightin Crocs, Here, 3-2 ?nm ii ii i iii?iii i mi ii 11 im ?inn i n ii NEED 1 BIRTH CONTROLS J INFORMATION? < l ^ All Information Strictly C j w Physical Examination incl All Methods ot Birth Uon Pregnancy Testing (early Low Cost Pregnancy Teri ^ Genera) Anesthesia Avail) ' / //<' &>*** * testing & treatment i JA\ A1i Herpes & Chlamydia TlicLadici i, ,1 ^ Urgent Care Medical Clinics < I 1411 Barnwell St. 254 ; 0 | ' j fcew?i y. ?i i ti. _ 7"/lU GdlTlBCUun uuv.. ggkX^TIP- routed a team from Cooperstown, N.Y., 30-1. USC hammi IV OFF ouf 13 home runs and 20 base hits. After seeing the BwJP ? Gamecock home run sail over the left field fence, Cooperstown coach, who, like his entire team, asked n J tn say: "When I saw that ball gc nf ffle No Gamecock stars get By Buck Washingtondc partial owner of the New Edwards and USC TODAY England Patriots. said to have had Several Gamecocks were ex- picked in the fir: Mot a single Gamecock was pcctcd to be drafted. NFL "I'm not wt drafted Thursday in the Na- scouts had said that some even playing in the 1 tional Football League's pre- had a chance to be selected in sniffling Edwar draft. the first round. good degree frc Team owners and coaches Wide receiver Donny Smith, I'm just not gc had different reasons for not free safety Chad Edwards, about it." selecting any Gamecocks. wingback Twirling Sharpe, Sharpe had a "I looked at the film, and I nose guard Ray Hart, corner- tion to being ov< hated their uniforms," Bud back Greg Emptypot, offen- "I don't know Corlcy, a coach at Tampa Bay sive lineman Goliath Poinsett ing to do," he s< said. and corncrback Gorman the news every d; "We can't afford to pay "Pink" Floyd were among the four years. I ju; i those guys them $20 per week Gamecock seniors who were going to be pickc 1 salaries," said Tom Broke, expected to be drafted. snuck into Fred \ 5 I i - - - - .... f t : V L2 ^ :; ;... El mm ... f I B 1 jtfflj V% ' \fl ; ' / ;>fiS fl^ ^ . HiyjiM J;/:;. . \ W ? c ^ i |-" -; --^;:;v'-^v'-^-v^''^^^;;1"^;;^;;''; -i;i';^;;;^-^^Q^;t\''-.;:-;; 1 ; :v:^;-^-;:: V^-";, "''V:^;:;,-: r--T;-y-j;>r-----; v v_ ^ ...... r-r-_.. v:---;vv7-5-; ? -: f ^MBBMM^WwJMIIWBMIMiwi'iiiffli'iiiMiinwiifMMMMMSMMBi ^T| COVER STORY s ! Fpltnn riBts C?^?? LI U ?7-- real in u. uuduii : to play for ? llftrt ? Gamecocks ITIOVGS tO 0S0 ; usctodav" take A.D. post t BoyGeorge Felton will get the ' chance to show his Gamecock By Bob Kentuckey j charges how it's done next year. USC TODAY .j The NCAA announced r Thursday that Felton had three In an unprecedented announcement Thursda e and a half years of basketball University Tigers football coach Danny Chaw was ? eligibility remaining. The USC's athletic director. former Gamecock player only "The first thing I'm gonna do is yank y'all c participated in one varsity game Metro and put y'all in the Atlantic Coast Confere ?? during four years at USC, so the y'all belong," Chaw said. NCAA will allow him to suit up Chaw said he accepted the post because he got ti again beginning Jan. 1, 1989. ing humiliated by superior Gamecock football tea "He couldn't play before, so "It seems every time I stick a chaw of tobacco ir I can't see how he could be any they score a touchdown," Chaw said. worse now," ex-USC head USC head football coach Joe Mojo said he h coach Tank McGuire said. "He about USC's choice. won't be able to complain about "I don't feel comfortable with him because I w the wrong plays getting run, at and he dresses in a strange shade of Halloween least." Mojo said. "He looks like a giant, glow-in-the dar Felton could not be reached Chaw, known tor his iron-fisted control of hi for comment. He was seen in the teams, got to work right away at Thursda J Sol Blatt P.E. center Thursday, conference. however, playing pick-up games Chaw said he has several major projects with students and working on athletics. ~~1 his free throws. He listed the need for a tobacco-spitting tean I This is not the first time USC female visitation at the Roost and the creation of a has taken the court with a tive drug-testing policy as his top priorities. ~~| player-coach leading the way. In "I think it's very unFair to shelter these athlete I 1862, U.S. Sen. Strom Thur- said. "I'm going to make them sleep on The H< mond, R-S.C., then a USC they lose another bowl game." junior, led the Gamecocks while | A tew USC administrators criticized Chaw fc ^ I playing power forward after the "redneck." But Chaw stifled that criticism with i head coach was killed in the revelation. Civil War. "I'm not a redneck; my neck is pink," Chaw s I Appearing Friday and Saturday nights, :?^ndeoiai just back from Atlanta, YEAH BUT NO uding PAP ' trol Next Week's Specials detection) Monday- Championship Bash nrunation 7 r r ... , able Happy Hour All Night ncluding Tuesday- College Night Happy Hour All Night w/College I > Wednesday- Ladies Night $ 1.00 for EVERYTHING all night nfcr Inr 'Thursday* Import night-$ 1.50 all night Friday- Live On Stage THE VECTORS [-7553 | I $ ^ d Happy hour until 10:00 i Incredibly funny picked in NFL draft Sharpc were and took the records out of his incrediblc." shots at being stereo and started smashing There wasn't any surprise >t round. them up . . . they told me I in the draft other than the )rrying about would be picked. They told me Gamecocks being overlooked. MFL," said a I would be picked." Slim Crown, the 1987 ds. "I got a Actually, owners and Heisman Trophy winner from >m USC, and coaches were drooling over Notre Damn, was picked No. 1 )ing to worry junior Gamecock quarterback by Atlanta. Rodd Ellis. R in Thfirn ?:r?n ujhn l?ft Ti.? different reae- "I just can't bclcive the arm bucktoo University to the nairlooked. this kid has," Bubba Styles, a tional championship and pass' what I'm go- chief scout for the Chicago cd for more than 20,000 yards lid. "I was on Bears said. "In only three in two seasons, was picked No. ay for the past years, he's broken every record 2 by Tampa Bay. >t knew I was in the book. And he's never Running back Stevie Stone :d. And after 1 overthrown a receiver or from Brick'eni Young Univer^eiglcr's house thrown an interception. That's sity was the third selection. HJock dispels ctoroniuno II ?J1UI UU i||JO I in interview J By Bill Thomas Student-athletes are often | stereotyped by other students | and by the public as dumb ?9 I jocks who spend more time | in the weight room than in ] the classroom, cheating their jmk I way to a degree ? if they get j ; > one at all. ! I USC Todav. in its never- f - ~ student-athlete to find out how much of that stereotype Bubba Brewkoski holds true. Bubba Brewkoski, a junior . Adefensive tackle for the INC^AA UnnOllllCCS Gamecock football team, all schools ineligible begins his day at 6 each mor- p~rpnf rtliro State ning ,ifting weishts. He excepi ^nico aiaie f | managed to find time from ^ his busy routine to give this By Amy DelPo, Son Ha and interview. Buck Washingtondc Q: You are obviously a (JSC TODAY very busy man. What does .m..? flntid _,v ..?1 l-A juu( u?>i^ iuuiiiicluiiaisi wit ^ A drug-testing A: Well, I get up at 5:30 ... ?T, every morning get dressed, commit ee announced Thursge. something to eat and then day,,hat ,a" spools except one l ac .u u. i participating in the NCAA to, head for the weight room. 1 , . * ? . . . y, rarm ? basketba 11 championships have ?c 1'ft for a few hours before I , . , . F. .. named as been declared ineligible to go back to my room. Then I . . e c eo to class After that I eat comPete because of use of a funch and then head fir the new druBcallcl1 "crackoids '' c practice field. After that, I Crackoid, a mixture of have the rest of the evening anabalic steroids and the core to do other things. caine derivative crack showed ims- q. You go to class? UP in 99 Percent 3,1 athletes i my chaw yeahf about once a tested and 90 percent of all week coaches. as doubts ^ how ^ yOU keep Doctors say the drug is the your eligibility? most devestating they have enear ac , ^ Well, someone told me countered because it builds up k^rlnwn ? before I came here 1 the body while at the same time "}' rttua|| wouldn't have to worry destroying it. s football about that. The Chico State Surfer y's Press q. j|ut you are gelling Dudes of California, 0-66 over passing grades, aren't you? Pas* two seasons, was the for USC just as surprised by only team with players who did that as you are. Every ,lot test positive. Brown said i, barring semester I think I failed, but they are national champions by n ineffec- when the grades come, I default. manage to pass. "'t s ^ind n'ce' sa'^ s, Chaw q. vvhat is your major? Willy Lamas, head coach for >rsehoe if Modem dance ' Chico. "I mean, we used to do Q: Don't you think some |hat stuff- but in California, >r being a people might view that as a 't s been unco?l longer than i stunning wimpy jock major? Neil Diamond." A: Look, I don't give a ream Captain Raoul Hang iaid. /pyniptiup r\f\fhtfA^ what ncn. 10 O Reillv said he couldn t ple^think about it. I'm talk- believe people at other schools mmmm~ 'n8 about modern dance ? were st'" using crackoid, a real modern dance. It ain't drug that he said was popular pq wuss major ^ Onlifornici in the late 70s. Q: What courses do you "That's, like, so bogus, take? man," he said. "But, hey, you A: Right now, I'm taking just can't beat being cool." Disco 301, Moonwalking Chico's star player Kareem 1 262, Shag 333, Wop 100, and Abdul Williams, a Marketing 666. 5-foot-8-inch center from San Q: Marketing sounds like a Francisco, said the news was hard major. What marketing not a shock. course are you taking? "I knew we could do it," he A: I sell hamburgers at the said. "I personally have been shrtotino a career hioh nf 14 i rvu:>3i,ii i ivnnc. o ? ---o-- ? - Q: What do you hope to percent from the field. do with your degree? "1 said at the beginning of I A: I want to play in the the season that we'd be No. 1 if NFL. the other players could take Q: But certainly you know some of the load off me and D (hat very few college jocks score a point at least every make It in pro football. Do other game," Williams said, you have anything else you The news of the test results can fall back on? was not well received by other A - 1/ ? U I 1.? tfamc J.. i can, i can cwways uc a ?v?...a, sanitation engineer. Indiana head basketball Q: Do you have any ex- coach Bobby Knight threw a perience in sanitation chair at Brown, spat on Lamas engineering? and stormed out of the press A: Of course, I clean stuff conference. off the top of the soccer bub- "He's the chairman. I gave ble- him his chair," he said. >