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Wednesday, February 21, 1990 The Gamecock 7
Like Tyson
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Sports Illustrated hasSiad a couple
of stunning knockouts on its
last two covers.
Last week it was the lovely Judit
Masco.
And this week, they've followed
up that always eagerly anticipated
swimsuit issue cover with one fea
turing another eye-opening knockout
(Mike did still have one eye
open, didn't he?).
Yes, it's Iron Mike Tyson ? his
world rocked, his mouthpiece in
backwards ? the ex-champion is
shown struggling to pick himself
up off the Tokyo canvas.
If you're like me, you probably
went right to Si's fight story after
seeing that, then read the piece on
Buster Douglas, and finally maybe
you flipped back to take another
look at Tyson's back on the
ground before moving on.
But I hope you didn't skip S/'s
next story. I found it harder to believe
than the one that preceeded
it.
What's harder to believe than
Mike Tyson losing?
If you said, "Pat Sajak has his
own talk show" you were close,
but actually I was looking for
something more like, oh maybe, a
girl in California racking up 101
points in a high school basketball
game.
By halftime!
Lisa Leslie, a 6'5" senior center
on the Morningside High School
girls' basketball team did just that.
She only needed a 16-minute
half to score a mind-boggling 101
points against South Torrance
High School Feb. 7.
After a teammate cnippea in a
point, Morningside went into the
locker room with a 102-24 halftime
lead.
Like Buster Douglas, Leslie
showed no mercy.
Not that she had anything
against South Torrance. She wasn't
bent on knocking them out as
much as breaking the national
single-game scoring record of 105
points, set by Cheryl Miller.
But Leslie wouldn't get that
chance. The battered South Torrance
squad did not answer the
bell for the second half.
Their coach, Gilbert Ramirez,
decided to forfeit the game. Two
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when a federal grand jury began
investigating the allegations. The
investigation did not resume until
after three former Gamecock assistant
football coaches were sentenced
Aug. 10 for their convictions
stemming from the allegations
raised by Chaikin.
As a result of the investigation,
the university "believes that during
the years of 1983 through early
1987 that there was widespread experimentation
with steroids by
members of the football team," according
to the report.
The report also found that before
the school implemented a
drug-testing program in the fall of
1985, the coaching staff had a
"laissez-faire attitude" concerning
the use of steroids.
"Some players felt that the
coaching staff had to know because
of the extent of the abuse,"
the report said. "But estimates 01
actual steroid use on the team varied
among the student-athletes
interviewed."
One player estimated eight or
nine players used steroids, and
another said it was about 25 percent
of the team, which is normally
made up of about 100 players.
Both, however, were far below
the 50 percent of the squad alleged
by Chaikin.
"Of greatest concern is the apparent
failure of the athletic department
administration to take appropriate
action after receiving notice
of steroid use and the possibility oi
coaching involvement," the repori
said.
In a memo from former assistani
coach Keith Kephart to coach Joe
Morrison, who died early last year,
Kephart said a player told him he
had been obtaining steroids foi
other players under the direction ol
I two assistant coaches.
During a news conference Oct
24, 1988, Morrison said he hac
told Kephart to look into the alle
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out trying to stop Leslie's offensive
barrage; he had only four girls
left.
Most of Leslie's field goals
were short-range jumpers, nothing
fancy, just 37 painful jabs. She
mixed that up with a record 27
free throws.
South Torrance obviously knew
they were beaten at the half, but to
prevent Leslie's personal knockout
against them, they threw in the
towel.
That left Leslie four points shy
of the record. Based on her firsthalf
scoring pace, she would have
scored her 105th point just 38 seconds
into the third quarter.
It would have been a dream
come true for Leslie in the one
game her coach allowed her to go
for the record. Although she is
capable, her coach says, of scoring
50 points a contest (she scored 52
in the second quarter alone against
South Torrance), Leslie is normally
held back to a comparitively
modest 27 points a game. But she
was given the green light against
South Torrance to go for Miller's
record.
What about sportsmanship?
Hadn't South Torrance had
enough, you say? Well, maybe.
But after reading the story, I found
myself on her side. And besides,
give her credit for not dunking on
South Torrance like she does on
most other teams.
She's not dedicated soley to basketball,
either. She has a 3.5
grade point average and served as
class president three of her four
years at Morningside. So there.
And what were the South Torrance
players doing with the ball
when they had it anyway? Leslie
averaged a shot at the basket every
17 seconds. I couldn't figure it out.
I also had a difficult time picturing
the stunned looks the South
Torrance players must have had on
their faces after Leslie was through
with her onslaught.
So I went back and looked at
Tyson again.
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gations and that no facts were uncovered
to substantiate the claims.
The report highlights the follow
mg possible NCAA rule violations:
In the spring of 1984, two
coaches discussed steroids with a
player. One of the coaches later
gave a graduate assistant $50 to
$80 to pay for steriods for the
player.
During the 1984 season, two
coaches asked a player to obtain
steroids for the player mentioned
in the previous instance. One
coach gave the player $90, and the
other coach gave the player $110
and $50 on two occasions to buy
steroids for the other player.
Two players admitted to selling
their complementary tickets, a
violation of the NCAA's extrabenefit
rule. One player sold his
tickets in 1983, and the other sold
his in 1986.
The report also detailed two instances
where, according to school
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football program may have broken
the "spirit" if not the letter of the
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South Carolina's Karen Middleton
has been named to the GTE
Academic All-America District
Threp women's basketball team.
She was chosen by the College
Sports Information Directors of
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Middleton, a junior guard, has
received the honor for the second
consecutive year.
An education major, she has a
3.38 GPA, which is the second
highest on the Academic AllAmerica
team.
Joining Middleton on the team
are Becki Barbary of Winthrop
College, Angie Evans of William
and Mary, Vicki Harris of James
Madison and Karen Lounsbury of
Georgia Tech.
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on 45.5 percent (56-123) of her
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