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Switzer to lead Cow
As expected, the Dallas Cowbo;
'ty of Oklahoma coach Barry Swiri
Switzer, 56, led Oklahoma to tl
year tenure in Norman, Okla. Ho1
amid scandal and NCAA violation
Immediate speculation has fonr
ing over the Miami Dolphins upon
in the next few vears.
Gillen heads to Proi
Former Xavier coach Pete Gillei
ketball coach at Providence.
Gillen had a record of 202-75 a
NCAA tournaments.
Mets trade Young fc
The New York Mets traded rig
! Chicago Cubs' shortstop Jose Vizc
I Young set a major-league recon
qs, 27, set from May 6,1992 to Jti
year, while he filled in for Shawon
season.
Villanova wins NIT
; Villanova overcame a 17-point <
;80-73, winning the NIT champion:
The Wildcats were led by Jonat
;scored 19 points and Kittles added
;history to win both the NCAA and
New ballparks to op
The Cleveland Indians and Texa
Son. The Indians will play in Jacobs
The Ballpark at Arlington will be t
Jacobs Field features a Terrace
videoboard.
The Ballpark at Arlington feati
' Sports-ticker board down the thirdFalcons
release Hebi
The Atlanta Falcons waived qu
> Hebert, who played in the Pro Be
cons signed Jeff George last week.
^ The Falcons were 6-10 under his
percent of his passes, threw 24 toi
NBA fines Maxwell,
The NBA fined Houston's Carl ]
en Polynice of Sacramento for figh
Herrera and Polynice were botl
?ame for throwing punches. Maxwe
Qie court quickly.
* Wooden awards give
n The 18th-annual Classic Games J<
announced Wednesday.
Glenn Robinson of Purdue, Gra
North Carolina were repeat membe
* Damon Bailey of Indiana, Jason
of Connecticut, Khalid Reeves of J
ford Rozier of Louisville and Corl
selected.
iToday's sports on T
NBA Basketball: 7
Detroit at Chicago, (TNT, 8 p,
NHL Hockey:
Boston at Buffalo or Dallas at
Hucks, Gu
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from staff reports
Pinch hitter Brian Hucks' long sit
gle to right centerfield, with one 01
and the bases loaded in the 11th ir
ning Wednesday, scored Mark Gug
no to give USC a come-from-behin
9-8 win over The Citadel.
The l4th-ranked Gamecocks (24
7), who trailed 8-1 at one point an
by four runs in the bottom of th
ninth, sent the game into extra ir
nings on a two-out pinch-hit single b
Xhris Diaz that scored Mac White
Craig Ross (3-0), USC's sevent
pitcher of the night, worked thre
scoreless innings to pick up the wir
. Gugino, the SEC's stolen bas
leader, led off the bottom of the lit!
with a single and promptly stole hi
19th base of the season. Stacey Stoke
sacrificed Gugino to third forcing Th
Citadel to intentionally walk Whit
and Rob DeBoer to load the base
and set up a potential double pla>
Hucks, batting for the earlier her
Diaz, drove a pitch to the wall to en<
the game.
ft "That's why you get 27 outs in
ballgame," said USC coach Jun
Raines, following the improbabl
rnmnkirl' "We kent ?
? r -wviving ail'
good things happened to us."
The Bulldogs (15-21) jumped ou
to their 8-1 lead in the sixth cappe<
by a Jermaine Shuler three-run horn
run. The Citadel scored one run ii
both the third and fourth innings an*
added three each in the fifth an*
sixth. Those turned out to be the fi
nal Bulldog runs of the evening.
Wr<
No glov<
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as long a
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Call the Offk
boys
ys Wednesday named former Universi:er
as their new head coach,
iree national championships in his 16wever,
Switzer left Oklahoma in 1989
s.
ler Cowboy coach Jimmy Johnson takcoach
Don Shula's expected retirement
ridence
r? ranln/^ap Dir?lr T) omn o no fUn U?r.
n igpiau/o iviviv uaiiicd ad uic iicau UOdt
Xavier, and led the Musketeers to six
>r Vizcaino
ht-handed pitcher Anthony Young for
:aino.
1 last season for most consecutive lossily
24,1993. Vizcaino batted .287 last
Dunston, who was injured most of last
leficit Wednesday to defeat Vanderbilt
>hip.
han Haynes and Kerry Kittles. Haynes
18. Villanova became the 15th team in pMBF^T
NIT championships. up
en this weekend 3
is Rangers have new stadiums this seaField,
which cost $161 million to build,
he new home of the Rangers.
Club restaurant and an Instant Replay
ures an out-of-town scoreboard and a
base line. |L
arterback Bobby Hebert Wednesday. Meadow!
)wl last year, was released after the Falleadership
last year. He completed 61.2 sn
iichdown passes and 17 interceptions. ITM d
Polynice, Herrera ? Tr>NIV .
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Ung in Tuesday night's game. Sports Editor
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Arizona, Jalen Rose of Michigan, Clif- sult ^ trave
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_ Carolina's first run came in the fifth i jjfl
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l- witnout Denent 01 a nit. ^nauci sianer Soutl
it Chris Sica walked Ted Rose and Ryan
t- Szwejbka and then committed a balk. Gugino. it
l~ Rose scored on Mike Dezenzo's in- wh?fs^2b
d field ?"t. Ba^ribh
USC's two-run sixth came courtesy Hucks1bpb
of a walk, White's single, the first of Xarter''?
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two doubles by DeBoer, and an in- Rose, 3b
e field out by Mike Tarter. Szwejbka, ss
1 The Gamecocks added one in the totals' rf
eighth when DeBoer doubled again
^ and scored on Ray Baksh's single. The
e With one out in the bottom of the
L ninth, Dezenzo walked to start the Bett^ob
e Gamecocks' rally. Gugino and Stokes lavagefdh
h singled with Dezenzo scoring on *
s Stokes' hit. White's double scored "
s Gugino followed by DeBoer's run- gj**- c1b
e scoring ground ball. Then Diaz's sin- totals
e gle tied the game.
s White said USC never felt they were The Citadel
' out of the game. Sou,h Caro,ina
0 "You always have to think that,"
d White said. 'You can't come back and Pitching
win if you don't believe that." ^Stoops'1"*
Gugino, Stokes, White and DeBoer J. J. Pearsall
e all finished with two hits as the Game- ^?RI3,1??;8._
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- cocks tallied 12 hits as a team. Wally Maynard
Curt Beerman had four hits and J*ai Ross
t two RBI's to lead The Citadel ofifen- ThVcitadel
j sively. Ryan Butler added three sin- Chris Sica
e gles for the Bulldogs. The Gamecocks john'Vrtce
rj resume play today as they travel to Donald Morillo
d Oxford, Miss., to take on the Ole Miss ^0n ^'n ^'e
d Rebels for a three-game series. The Winner: Ro
i- SEC rivals tangle at 7 p.m. tonight and Loser; Mori|
at 2 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.
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Sophomore Heather Greene won at sir
ss (3-0) Wednesday to lead USC to victory agaii
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USC shocks
^TEN^^yl From staff reports
* The USC men's tennis team pulled
rERED? \ off its second big upset in a week by
'fir> 1 beating No. 2 Georgia 4-3 Thursday
at the Sam Daniels Tennis Center.
f V The Gamecocks (12-4,2-4) shocked
iN HELP No. 4 Duke ast Wednesday.
. T . I USC beat Georgia based on the
T / strength of its singles play. The Game-9428
Jk cocks took fou of six singles matches.
- - Jorge Esqueda clinched the match
for USC when he defeated the Bull
dogs' Albin Polonyi at the No. 4 posi"ference.
tion ,
-7Qn Esqueda dropped the first set 1-6
and fell behind 0-2 in the second. He
rallied, however, to win 12 of the next
V
lips March 13. He will compete in June for t
on of brain
with his bodybuilding girlfriend, Joy
Grove, a former Miss Columbia. i
"It's good for both of us to have the
same interest," Meadows said. "She's j
good for me. If I don't want to go to
the gym, she smacks me around a little,"
he said jokingly.
Along with training an average of. 1
five days a week for about two hours,
diet is essential to his success. Eating 1
enough and eating the right foods is 1
important, he said. t
"I eat about six or seven times a
day," he said. "Around 3,500 calories
of which less than 8 percent is fat.
Though Meadows has won six national
titles and three world championships,
he has managed to keep ^
things in perspective and to continue 5
to set goals.
"I always want to reach that next s
level," Meadows said. \
ocks down CI
I From staff reports
The USC women's t
team, ranked 19th in th
tion, slipped past Clems<
a five-hour match, dec
by an 11-9 score in the
set tiebreaker at No. 2
bles.
Carolina raised its re
to 15-2, while 17th-rai
Clemson fell to 9-7.
The No. 2 doubles t
of Heather Greene and
cy Pulliam clinched
match with a 1-6, 6-4,
(11-9) victory over Ja
Durden and Karol
Tutkiewicz. The match
] moved indoors becau;
darkness with Greene:
ing for USC at 5-5, 0
Greene was broken, bu
USC duo quickly br
Charleston native Ja
Durden to force the t
set tiebreaker.
Greene single-hand
saved three match po
Serving 5-6, Greene
leashed a cross court 1
hand for a winner. The
ma increased, with Pul
serving at 7-8, Greene
but regained her con
sure to poke a match-ss
volley across the net fr<
sitting position. V
Jutkiewicz serving foi
match at 9-8, Greene's
?? I hand dusted the line, sa
urtesy of David Frankel match-point number tl
igles and doubles "Every time we needc
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16 games and the final two sets 6-3, ^
6-3. b
Johan Sandberg won at No. 1 singles
for USC. He downed Georgia All- a
American Mike Sell 6-3, 6-1. ^
Gamecock Maxsy Jimenez conquered
Bobby Mariencheck, the No.
44 player in the nation. Jimenez won ?
6-4, 6-2.
USC's Mark Bommelje, playing in a
dual meet for the first time since February,
won at No. 5 singles. Bommel- fi
je, who had been sidelined with a s<
lung infection, defeated Nirav Patel 75,
6-3.
The Gamecocks were without their a'
No. 1 doubles team of Sandberg and u
Jose Frontera. Frontera was sidelined tc
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he world championship.
is, power
But Meadows says that poweriifting
s not his entire life.
"I'll get my bachelor's degree in
pharmacy next May and then my
pharmacy doctorate in another year,"
le said. "Most of my goals are acadenic."
Meadows said he may use his decree
to work in the medical nutrition
leld, but no matter what his job, he
vill keep lifting and competing.
"I just love lifting," Meadows said.
I'd never stop."
But how long can he compete for?
"They have age groups up to 75
'ears old now," Meadows said with a
.mile.
There's little doubt Meadows will
itill be competing and winning tides
veil into the next century.
emson, 5-4
time tennis shot," USC head
rnnis coach Arlo Elkins said. "She
e na- didn't miss a ball in the first
3n in set ?f her singles match, and
ided ^en to keep going for winthird
ncrs on pressure-packed
dou- points make for an unbelievable
effort."
cord Greene served the final
tked two points and Durden's
forehand sailed wide at 10-9.
earn The match marked the secTra
ond time this season Greene
the and Pulliam had clinched a
, 7.6 Lady Gamecock victory at
nice No. 2 doubles. They clinched
ina USC's 5-4 victory over
was Auburn last month, winning
se of 6-4 in the third set.
serv- "I thought we played well
-30. with the girls we put out
t the there," said Clemson head
0 ke coach Andy Johnston. "With a
nice little luck we could've pulled
hird out another close match."
Other winners for USC
edly were Greene, Victoria Davies
ints. and Sophie Ljucovic in sinun
gles action. Helen Cook and
fore- Victoria Davies won the othdra
er doubles match for the
liam Gamecocks 6-1, 4-6, 6-3.
fell, In defeating the Lady
ipo- Tigers for the first time in
iving two years, Carolina notched
3m a its third win over a ranked
Pith opponent this season. USC
the improved its record to 8-0 in
fore- the Southeast Region, while
iving Clemson fell to 4-1.
iree. USC faces nationally
:d it, ranked Duke at 2 p.m. today
1 big in Durham, N.C.
eorgia, 4-3
ath the flu. The loss hurt as Sanderg
and Johan Wiig came up short
gainst Jamie Laschinger and Polonyi,
jsing 8-6.
Jimenez and Jim Panagopoulos
rere the only USC doubles team to
an. They defeated Mariencheck and
ievin Sessions 8-3.
Georgia (10-3, 5-2) has lost 10 conirences
matches in the past five seasns.
The Gamecocks return to action
gainst No. 13 Ole Miss at 2 p.m. Satrday
at the Sam Daniels Tennis Cen:r.
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idnws cnmhinati
VNTORI interested."
A little?! When Meadows was in the
^ 545 fourth grade he bench pressed 140
ren't area codes. They , , ,
t amounts USC student ouBh ^ be.^"e at
vs lifted in the bench earl>'agc' hke sa,d he hasn 1 rece,ved
id dead lift at the Junior mu.k c?fc ,f . f.. . ,
. , . I m basically self-taught, said
-rlifting Champ.onsh.ps Meadows who ?.ighs mo * lhan 230
inont/1" pounds. "I just picked it up on my
, a pharmacy major, Qwn j I'm just blessed genetiid
in the 242-pound cajjy?
t the meet and, as a re- Powerlifting should not be con:1
to Bali, Indonesia, in fused with Olympic lifting as the
ent the United States at events are quite different. And it defmpionships.
initely should not be confused with
ir old Meadows, who bodybuilding,
ieckley, W.V., got in- "There are plenty of big, ugly guys
htlifting at an early age. in powerlifting," Meadows was quick
brother was in high to point out.
d for football," he said. However, even with the differences
I started to get a little between the two sports, he still trains
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