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By TONY SAN TORI
Staff Writer
The tough SEC schedule continues
for the Gamecock basketball
team on Wednesday night as they
travel to "Music City, USA,"
Nashville, Tenn., to take on the
Vanderbilt Commodores.
Vanderbilt, with Head Coach
Eddie Fogler, currendy sports a 61
conference record and a 16-3
mark overall. Plus, in a poll of
SEC coaches, Vandy was picked
the surprise team of the league
thus far this season, receiving five
votes, including USC coach Steve
Newton's.
The Commodores are led by
Duke transfer guard Billy
McCaffrey, who is currently
ranked in the top 10 of seven SEC
ottensive statistical categories
including scoring (20.1 ppg.), field
goal percentage (56.7), and 3-point
shooting percentage (50.6).
Also contributing to Vandy's
superb season has been another
transfer, center Chris Lawson, who
defected from Indiana University.
The red-beaded 7-footer is second
to McCaffrey in scoring for the
Commodores with just under 13
points per contest.
In reaction to the 'Dores uprising,
Auburn coach Tommy Joe
Eagles said, "I don't think anyone
Cheerleader
By CHARLIE TISDALE
Staff Writer
Over the years, cheerleaders
around the nation have been the
butt of many jokes. As high school
cheerleaders, girls are stereotyped
as bubble-headed bleached blondes,
and as USC spirit coach Bill Boggs
states "guys are perceived as
sissies."
At USC, however, Boggs is
quick to point out that the cheerleaders
have the reputation of "student
athletes, an elite profile
gioup." The South Carolina squad
is taking great strides to shed the
stereotype which is placed on all
cheerleaders.
The strenuous physical demands
Dlaced on these athletes is one rea
son for that new-found respect. The
cheerleaders practice two hours
every day and endure four hours of
conditioning a week. According to
Boggs, they are able to "provide
more entertainment from an acrobatic
standpoint" as a result of their
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understood how good Billy
McCaffrey and Chris Lawson were
going to make that basketball
team." Eagles was apparently right.
Vanderbilt is now ranked 11th in
the nation and is tied for first place
with Kentucky in the SEC East.
However, receiving three votes
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Vandy, were none other than our |j|j
very own Gamecocks.
USC was picked to finish dead
last in the conference before the
season, yet they have managed to
produce a respectable 4-4 SEC
record, 8-9 overall.
Alabama coach David Hobbs
commented on the Gamecocks'
surprise. "If you are going to beat j^fl
South Carolina, regardless of
where you're playing them, you'd
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15.6 ppg. and just over five H
rebounds per outing.
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hardwood success, however, as six
different players have led USC in
scoring in at least one game this
season. For Carolina to be victorious
in Nashville, a balanced attack *|g
will again be needed.
Tip-off at Memorial Gymnasium gen
is set for 8:30 p.m. eastern time.
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V JEFFREY C. TURBITT
aff Writer
As the Dallas Cowboys took the
eld for Super Bowl XXVII
tnday, one USC student had a
jeper understanding of how
3wboy players thought and felt.
Dexter Clinkscale, a second-year
SC law student, was a regular
arter as strong safety for the
awboys from 1980-1987. In '80,
1 and '82, the Cowboys played
ree NFC Championship games,
sing to the Eagles, 49ers and
edskins in succession.
Clinkscale remembers the games
i Washington, D.C., against the
edskins as a career highlight.
The conditions for football were
Iways great," Clinkscale said.
They have that grass field and
lose great fans. As a Cowboy
layer, there was nothing greater
lan making those great fans boo."
Despite his love for football,
ducation has always been
llinkscale's primary concern, and
tw school was always part of his
lan. In fact, one week after losing
le '80 NFC Championship game,
'hich would have put the
lowboys in the Super Bowl,
llinkscale returned to S.C. State to
inish up his business degree.
"Coming out of college, my prilary
concern was to get my underraduate
degree and then go to
raduate school," Clinkscale said.
I had no real ambition to play prop>ccir?ncil
frv^fhall
"When your career as a profesional
athlete is over, you still have
tie better part of your life to live,"
ie said. "The public gets confused
bout that."
In 1987, Clinkscale moved on to
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the Indianapolis Colts where he
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