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- Friday, February 25, 1994 | Kerrigan in first-place enterinj Nancy Kerrigan leads the women's Olympic going into today's long program, which will de Teammate rival Tonya Harding stumbled on a and almost out of contention. Former Olympic champion Katarina Witt is ii Baylor joins Big Eight Longtime Southwest Conference member Bay ference Wednesday to join the expanding Big I Texas, Texas Tech and Texas A&M, which are i r_ii pecieu 10 iouow soon. Hunter charged with felonies Former Purdue University quarterback Eric Hi felonies Wednesday following a knife brandish on the West Lafayette, Ind., campus. Hunter, 23, was arrested after waving a knife sus. He played for Purdue from 1989-1992. Georgia Dome home for SEC ( The SEC announced Wednesday that the cor ball championship game from Legion Field in Bir gia Dome in Atlanta. Birmingham Mayor Richard Arlington said SEC called to tell him of the move. Kansas, Minnesota upset The Nebraska Cornhuskers (15-8, 5-6 Big Eij 87 Wednesday in Lincoln. Eric Piatkowski scored 33 points to lead Nel throws in the final 30 seconds to secure the wii The Jayhawks (21-6, 6-5 Big Eight) got 16 po in the loss. In East Lansing, Shawn Respert scored 43 po pointers to lead Michigan State (16-10, 7-7 Big The Gophers (18-9, 8-6 Big Ten) were pace points. In Tallahassee, Duke's Marty Clark and Chris C in the No. 2 Blue Devils (20-3, 11-3 ACC) 84-7; The Seminoles were led by Bob Sura and Ch2 19 points respectively. i No. 7 Kentucky, playing without the suspend ett and Gimel Martinez, slipped past Tenne: J Knoxville. J The Wildcats (21-5,10-3) trailed the Volunte J ond half before rallying. Tony Delk scored 21 p I , 'Today's sports on TV NBA Basketball: Chicago at Washington (WGN, 7:30 p.m.) NHL Hockey: Chicago at Buffalo, or Philadelphia at New York Islanders (ESPN, 7:30 p.m.) Winter Olympics: Aipine sicung, ngure sicating, ski jumping ar (CBS, 7 a.m) Selected events (TNT 1 p.m.) Ski jumping, Alpine skiing, figure skating, ii and speedskating (CBS, 8 p.m.) Return of tl That's right, I'm back. I just returned from a nine-month sabbatical spent trying to hunt down the moron who designed those stupid looking Winter Olympic mascots. And speaking of stupid looking Olympic mascots, it's just a little more than two years until Whatizit? or Izzy? or Whatever? gets plastered all over every T-shirt, mug, billboard and pair of bikini briefs in Atlanta. Of course, I'm still a bit angry that my name for ? it wasn't selected: Itzadumbasslook- , inohluphlnh bem80 ? there wa And now for my Winter Olympic going to observations. front of Isn't like, you know, Picabo Street In ad just, like, you know, the coolest skier hemp fc dudette, you know? She's just, like, had son sooo groovy, you know? Brakem; I know "Home Improvement" is a maican t great show, but wouldn't Seinfeld won't n have been a better coach than Tim weed bi "The Tool Man" Taylor? How about never le; Bob Vila? And finally, if you didn't watch the Boneh pairs ice dancing competition, you re- That's ally missed a show. I'm not kidding. to?. The One of the required moves is for the na Shesl woman to skate with one skate on the a 11 h e r ice, the other leg on her partner's Olympic shoulder and her head between his s^e ran 1 legs. Seriously. All that was missing about to was that '70s retro-psycho-funk mu- ^ect ^er sic. No truth to the rumor the arena That's was full of 6,000 13-vear-old boys in yards aw really loose pants. kilometei Of course, the commercials could finished have been a bit better. My sugges- g qk, b: tions: baseball Dan Jansen for Med-Alert. You right, bre know, "I've fallen, and I can't get up." ahawks, I Oh wait, he won. Make that Ron mean Bra Gant. World Se Nancy Kerrigan showing off her big time's th< pair of, uh, teeth for Aqua-Fresh. faLLLLo? Tonya Harding for (choose one) Field and Stream, American Hunter, ? ^ r Popular Mechanics, Guns and Ammo, The Club or my personal favorite, ^ Bounty. , Torvill and Dean for Modern MaPact ( turity, AARP, Geritol and Advil, now f , that Nolan Ryan finally took his old ?Jin , ^ carcass off the field. 111 !rs ,J Jeff Gillooly for Soldier of Fortune. ^ Upsta If you were like me, you watched Moral, for half an hour waiting to see the Ja- you just maican bobsled. Well, for some rea- ^And a fi son, they didn't race. Well, here's the son d0jn scoop. anyway? ^ The Jamaican bobsled was disqual- $ma ified from Olympic competition for 5 S| Modaj | Heart figure skating competition WW^. w termine medal winners. ^ | landing and is in 10th place (j^HICCOClCS i sixth place. F By TONY SANTORI Sports Editor The score was 70-65 Gamec< lor University left the con- with 2:45 left in the game. Missi: fight conference. pi State's Brian Price had just foi other SWC schools, are ex- out. The crowd at Frank McGuire 1_ J1 1 rrn/-> // ? na was ioua ana sensea use. (p-i 11) was about to break an eight-g SEC losing streak. But Marcus Grant nailed a th unter was charged with two pointer to cut the lead to two. U ing incident in a dormitory Emmett Hall then missed a jum and MSU (16-7, 8-5) went insid and proclaiming he was Je- freshman Erick Dampier. Dam dunked, and the game was tied1 just more than a minute to go. "1 thought we were in contr< championship that time?Hall said about the iference will move its foot- point lead, mingham, Ala., to the Geor- The Bulldogs broke out in a th on-one break, but Jamie Watson, I ! Commissioner Roy Kramer ing the play, came up with an inc ible blocked shot, and the sc stayed tied at 70. With just more than 30 second maining, USC's Carey Rich cu ^ht) upset No.5 Kansas 96- front Qf a Bulldog pass and went distance to give the Gamecocks a i ?raska, including four free point lead, i. MSU then missed a shot, and Ca. \vr II - - i ?I?l 1 J - ?> ? una uuin oicvc wuouucny rcDounucu ana passea to Kicn, i was fouled. Seven seconds u ints, including eight three- showing, and the Gamecock fait Ten) past Minnesota. began celebratmo d by Vashon Leonard's 25 But Rich missed the first free"thl and palms began sweating. He mi ollins each scored 17 points I win against Florida State. lO H fl SOH t" N f niie Ward, who had 21 and J wllllOVyll^ LI 11 ed Travis Ford, Jared Prickers (5-18, 2-11) in the sec- I n * x ce hockey iBpi _ fl |^Hp?y ^fi, S JH WjlX *"\ |g? A > I ^?|f S ?*, A Cindy Kelly shoots for two points nv?p TTV/"/" TTC/~ ?,:11 1..,I.. :?? "? ^??UUC .13 Tim Thorsen Women's g Sportin' Fool From Staff Reports verweight. Sources tell me The USC women's golf team she is no way the Jamaicans were Final round total of 317 Wednesday take the tape deck out of the Finish 15th, with a team total of 94! the sled. the Arizona Invitational in Tusct dition, the 35 pounds of Ariz. >und in the trunk probably Arizona State won the tournam< lething to do with the DQ. with a team total of 869. m Wayne Thomas (nice J a- Sophomore Siew Ai Lim led the tame, huh) said, "Hey mon, dy Gamecocks with a three-day to o way we was leaving the of 226, Finishing the tournament ti ick in de village, mon. We for 17th. ave home without it, mon." Arizona State's Heather Bowie w individual honors with a total of 2 lead of the Week. She was followed in second and th right, the bonehead's back, place by teammates Tracy Cone a Olympic edition winner, Inliki. Seems ol' Inna trained . life for her one shot at 'n 4glory in the biathlon. Well, J^VJJLJLJLCJLJL 5 I' Pie (gamecock >orts breaker lose at buzzer H the second shot as well. The Bulldogs pushed the ball up the court as the 3cks clock ticked down. MSU's T.J. Honssip ore dribbled though traffic to the top led of the key and let fly with a 21-footer. Are- The shot hung in the air for what 7, 2- seemed like years before cleanly ame falling through the hoop. Final score: Bulldogs 73, Gamecocks 72 and many ree- broken hearts. SC's The unfortunate victim of circumper, stance was Rich. The junior point e to guard was outstanding for 39 minutes pier and 53 seconds, scoring 18 points with and dishing out nine assists while committing just one turnover, jl at "We weren't even in the game withfive out Carey Rich," USC coach Eddie I Fogler said. "He had a heck of a floor iree- game. It was an interesting game, a SH trail- good college basketball game."' PMH red- The Bulldogs raced out to 16-4 firstore half lead on three-pointers by Darryl Wilson and Marcus Grant. MSU took s re- a 37-33 advantage into intermission, it in "Grant hurt us from three," Fogler Wat the said. "He's a streaky shooter, but he _ni two- hit ihcm tonight." Despite falling to 6-17, Fogler is points an Hall proud of the way his team has played. Jamie Wau vho "I've never coached a six-and-what- rebounds. rere ever-we-are team," he said. "We've got Grant ai hful good attitude, no bitching, no com- points an SC's A row/ ly pleased with that." struggle, s ssed Hall led the Gamecocks with 24 "Andy i ee-pointers lead Lady JIMMY] WTm\ Assistant The Lai I gjg team dej P0HHI|||^^^^HHa| WednesdJ Hk Arena. V Shannon i ^Pli eight assis Kelly also HO'jJj the Game< Mi J The La< I P al game clos five point" I wa." W when Hea r *\ f% 1 halftime. k| TheGa ^5 49ers 42-3: Bi||f|p|^BK| Johnson's I fJ ^ ^Xk outrebou PmPi WPi|?*' game, led ing seven ( PF son both p Ml jR . * _ ? jg] Althougl David Mandrell.The Gamecock 37.3 Pcr^ei Wednesday in the Lady Gamecocks' victory 10 ine regular season Saturday against Vanderbilt. ab'e 10 w'r olf finishes 15 th in Emilee Klein. )t a USC's Lea Bagwell shot 79-75-79 for , tQ the three rounds. The junior from t Gray Court, S.C., finished tied for 1. Ar >n 52nd 2" U( Sophomore Clarissa Childs tied for 3. Ol 67th in the tournament. She shot 76- ^15. U' nt 85-79 for a three-round total of 240. Julie Norris finished 87th with a Individu score of 252. Norris' best round was T17 ta' her second-round 80. T52 cc* Freshman Katie Weiss bounced T67 back, after struggling through an 87 on opening round 89. The Fergus Falls, 88 14. Mn., native closed with rounds of 80 ird and 83. She Finished 88th with a total nd of 254. ennis to take on1 411 face two cru 0, 1-0) will play MMMHBH 2). On Sunday, apr ies are at 1 n m ^ at the corner of st. There are no mKm ^IT / have beaten last ,vas hurt in both Lady Gamecocks will play Vanderl ige at No. 2 sin- . ^ America Tournament, are No. 14. Crook and Vic- "Biased crowd participation was a t elite. They lead 'ast year's match at Vanderbilt," Crool ies and are the really would appreciate the support of c which defeated on Saturday. It can make a big diflferei at the ITA All- will most likely be a close match." tne race 01 her lire ana was cross the finish line and col- rom Staff Reports silver medal when she fell. The USC women's tennis team v right, she tripped just two cial SEC showdowns this weekend ay from immortality in a 7.5 On Saturday, the Gamecocks (7: race. Five seconds later, she the Vanderbilt Commodores (4-, in fourth place Auburn (5-2) will visit. Both match at the Maxcy Gregg Tennis Courts tck to the states where it's Blossom and Barnwell streets, season once again. That's "The SEC is solid and even from ak out the dust-covered torn- on down," Elkins said. "Florida and sandwagoneers. The Bills, I onjy teams that stand above the re: ves, are predicted to win the sure wjns at any position for us. T ries again. Maybe the fourth SpQt jn the lineup has to fight to w ' c'iarm- Sound familiar Buf- Last season, Vanderbilt defeated in the regular season and 5-1 in tl lallv a sto ment. The latter was a bitter defe i, , , . modores edged out the clinching vi Moo U. wanted to hire a , , b . , , set tie-breakers. ?p ,e Cga? ^ The Vanderbilt match will offer Tommy WestS? U ^ ? tunity to win racquet bags, tennis t r- i. ' . cock tennis T-shirts and hats. The c .ow College was recently hM _ . . . - . , _ . , nvivi iyvi??evil liiv vv/uviujiv/ii Wi Oil it ulty o a violation of NCAA beginning of doub,es p|ay. rying o convince USC play- "These are two teams we should mit to o ow his nose to yCar " gikins said "Victoria (Davies) \ ? matches, putting us at a disadvanta Be careful what you ask for; gles and No j doubles.? might get what you want. USC's doubles tandem of Helen inal question. What s Clem- toria Davies are among the nation's g coming after our players the nation with 22 doubles victor XTiy not Florida State or Mi- reigning SEC champions. The duo, rt guys, real smart. the country's No. 4 doubles team 7 u m h David Mandrell/The Gamecock son shoots over a iMississippi State defender Wednesday in the Garae;-point loss to the Bulldogs. d seven rebounds. Senior right now," joked Fogler, who was re;on added 21 points and six ferring to Bosticks hometown. id Wilson led MSU with 19 . ThC '?1S keepS USC 2 j * >- . : i tip with Tpnnfwn in thr> SFr F-ict u u points respectively. "" ' indy Bostick continued to The Gamecocks will travel to coring just two points. Knoxville, Tenn., to play the Tenis in the Florence Funk nessee Volunteers Saturday. Gamecocks past UNCC DeBUTTS outshot UNCC 75-55, but only hit one Sports Editor more shot than the 49ers. dy Gamecock basketball USC continued to throw up the feated UNC-Charlotte three-pointers against UNCC. Carolity 74-65 at Frank McGuire na nettecj 9 Qf 32 three-point shots 4-11, 2-8 SEC) was led by a8ainst the 49ers' The Gamecocks Johnson who scored a have taken 78 three-point shots in 1 19 points and dished out their last two games, connecting on ts. Jenny Randall and Cindy 21 of them, scored in double figures for The 49ers had three players score V , ' , , in double figures. Martika Aldrige iy 49ers (12-10) kept the ,nH e tnrougnout the contest. K * wul ^v" est lead in the first half was en assists to lead L'NCC. Charlette i with 5:18 left in the half. Hargrove had 14 points and grabbed 1 able to tie the score at 28 a team-high 11 rebounH. Charlene ther Hart scored with 3:20 Reid added 11 points for the 49ers. i9ers held a 33-32 lead at pQr t^e season, Johnson is leading mecocks outscored the Carolina in scorin8 and "hree-point 2 in the second half, led by accuracy- She is averaging 23.8 points 14 second-half points. USC per game and has hit 41 of her 104 tided UNCC 46-39 in the three-point shots for an average of by Randall s nine, includ- .394. Malinda McDaniel is grabbing a jffensively Kelly and John- leam h h g j rebounds lulled down seven boards. ? . . the Gamecocks shot only The Gamecocks close ?U1 lhe it from the field, compared u'ar scason against V anderbilt at 2 s' 49.1 percent, they were P-m- Saturday at Frank McGuire Arei because of volume. USC na. Ariynnci T twit a tin nil x jLLxuv/iiti in y iiuuvjiiui Arizona Invitational izonaSate J;. 869 M ZlA 895 g klahoma 899 ff >C 945 7 lal Results // ISiewAllim // Lea Bagwell // Clarissa Chikls 76-65-79=240 // Julie Norris =-^ 86-80-86=252 - // Katie Weiss g?| m 89-80-83*25<;; Mpi: ^?1 Vanderbilt, Auburn VV ? ^ USC Sports Information jilt and Auburn this weekend at the Maxcy Gregg Tennis Courts. All eight Gamecocks have at least 10 singles vic>ig factor in tories for the season. Leading the way is freshman ls said. "We Sophie Ljucovic at 17-5 and Crook at 14-6. Crook is >ur students 7-2 against SEC foes and was runner-up to Florida's ice in what Anoushka Popp at the SEC Championships in October.