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ROBBIE MEEK Staff Writer
On Jan. 28, SEC foe Georgii
into Frank McGuire Arena onlj
beat 60-59 by a last-second Mali
sell tip-in.
Saturday, the Bulldogs will p
try to avenge the loss to USC.
The Bulldogs are 15-7 overall
and 6-6 in the SEC. The
Gamecocks will go into the
matchup with an 8-15 overall
record and a 3-10 record in the
SEC.
USC is coming off a thrashing
of Campbell University.
The Gamecocks were led in |
that game by Andy Bostick
and William Unseld, who
scored 24 and 23 points respec
That win broke a three-game
streak and gave the Gamecocks a
needed rest from their rugged SEC
ule. UGA is coming off a loss _
to the University of Florida
Wednesday.
The Bulldogs are averag
ing 74 points a game and are j
ranked third in the conference ;
in that area. Carolina is 11th j
in the conference, averaging g
66 points a game.
The Georgia front court i3 8
led by center Charles Claxton 9
and forward Carlos Strong, w
Strong is leading the team in
scoring, averaging 14.5 points. C
is leading the league in blocks w
per outing. The two are combin
pull down 15 rebounds per game
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ik Rus- js guard Carey Rich. He is averaging
13.4 points while hitting about
" two treys a game. Rich's backcourt
partner, freshman^Melvin
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f assists. Watson is shooting 43
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1 is led by Pertha Robinson.
% i|| Robinson is leading the con?foronce
with 6.6 assists per
OSTiCK game. The other Bulldog guard,
Katu Davis, is averaging two
tively. steals per game,
losing USC has improved consistently over
much- the course of the year. Freshmen Watsched
son, Ryan Stack and junior college trans
fer Un3eld have improved
a tremendously and are sure to
be big contributors to next year's
Watson is making a strong
run toward the SEC Freshman
of the Year Award. And, of
course, Bostick and Rich have
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1'iXton Gamecocks will try to continue improvith
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to iseum. Carolina will be trying to sweep
to give the season's two-game series with the |
rival Bulldogs.
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Beating the Boston Bruins was
enough to make Hartford Whalers goalie
Sean Burke lose track of his400th NHL
victory.
"I forgot about that," said Burke, who
!made 42 saves in Hartford's 3-2 overtime
victory Wednesday night. "If s kind
of ironic, because I got my first win against
Boston. Ifs nice. I mean this is a team
we've always ? since I've been here and
before that ? had a little jinx against."
Darren Turcotte scored with 2.01 left
in overtime to give Hartford its first home
victory over Boston in five games since <
I November 1992.
"We didn't play a great game tonight, I
but we got a win, and thafs the bottom
line," said Burke, 100-122-33 in seven
seasons with New Jersey and Hartford. 1
There's been a lot of nights against this <
team where we've played well and deserved
to win but didn't get one." '
In other games Wednesday night, it i
was the New York Islanders 3, Buffalo ?
3; Detroit 4, Toronto J; St. Louis 4, San 1
Jose 3; Edmonton 2, Dallas 1; and Win- f
nipeg 4, Vancouver 1.
Geoff Sanderson and Chris Pronger '
also scored for Hartford, which was out- i
shot 44-20 and failed to score on four *
power-play opportunities. 1
^ "For the first two periods, we played ?
poorly," Whalers coach Paul Holmgren
said. "I thought it evened out a little in '
the third period. We were very, very fortunate
tonight that our goalie was as s
hot as he was." i
Cam Neely and Ted Donato scored ?
7~1 for Boston. t
Red Wings 4, Maple Leafs 1 ?
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At Detroit, Shawn Burr and Dino Ci- the third period,
xarelli scored goals early in the second Pat Falloon em
oeriod as Detroit beat Toronto for the shutout bid at 8:09
second time in three nights to increase and Sandis Ozolir
ts winning streak to four games. than three minutes
Burr put the Red Wings ahead 47 game,
seconds into the second when he put his
swn rebound past Damian Rhodes. Ci- Oilers 2, Stars J
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seat Jamie Macoun to Paul Coffey's cen- At Edmonton, T
oring pass. with 1:09 remainir
Vyacheslav Kozlov scored in the first ton added a power-}
seriod and Greg Johnson added an emp- onds left.
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vith 11:30 remaining in the third peri- 1;54 left in the secc
xl as New York rallied from a 2-0 deficit. Bill Ranford m;
Craig Simpson put Buffalo ahead 3- Oilers, who ended
I when he poked a rebound past Tom- streak. Dallas has
ny Soderstrom for his third goal in two ^ games.
james. Soderstrom made 28 saves and
Dominik Hasek stopped 26 shots for Buf- ' Canucks
alo, 0-3-2 in its last five games. . '
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vn with AIDS
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AIDS.
The disclosure Wednesday that Gn
Louganis, the only man ever to swe<
the diving gold medals in two consec
tive Olympics, has AIDS left friends ai
fellow divers shocked and saddened
and remembering what perfection looki
like off the springboard and platfon
"He was the greatest diver the wor
has ever seen, but he was always mo
est," said Mark Lenzi, a former tear
mate with a gold medal of his own. "I
was my hero and still is."
, | yj In an interview with ABCs"20-2C
"<* jPjr ^? to be televised Friday, Louganis said 1
' I tested positive for the virus that caust
% * ' I AIDS shortly before the 1988 Olympic
- , ^ where he retained the gold medals i
1 * the 10-meter platform and three-met*
lKl Tljj^ springboard.
TP "According to the CDC (Centers ft
% f||| - 1 Disease Control), of AIDS versus HT
i ^ I do have AIDS," Louganis told inte
viewer Barbara Walters.
?. ~ .uvuga 110 13 uic latest 111 a giuwii.
* * list of prominent athletes to disclose I
t has HIV or AIDS. Among others, ba;
ketball star Magic Johnson retired froi
the Los Angeles Lakers in Novembe
1991 after revealing he had the AID
.loway The Gamecock v1 8. ^d tennis star Arthur Ashe die
?cocks 60-59 win 1993 after disclosing he contracte
tsket In th? clos- AIDS in a blood transfusion,
r. It was in Seoul, South Korea, thi
Louganis did the unthinkable for a wori<
-J q?h class diver: He struck his head on th
L\Jl3 I Ctlll springboard during preliminary divei
? leaving a two-inch gash in his seal]
Already taking AZT for the AID
ded Curtis Joseph's vims and keeping his condition a seen
, and Tom Pederson on the advice of his doctor and coacl
ish scored with less Louganis said he was "paralyzed wit
remaining to tie the feai^ that his blood would contaminal
the water.
"It's, you know, this has been an ii
^ credibly guarded secret," Louganis sai<
"I just held my head... I just wanted t
odd Marchant scored hold the blood in, or just not anybod
tg, and Mike Staple- touch it.
Dlay goal with 36 sec- didn't anticipate hitting my hea
. on the board. I didn't anticipate, yo
Dallas godie Andy the b]ood xhat,s 30mething...
nds after Stars de- thjnk about at ,he tjme .
edyard was sent off Dr James a g 0|ympj
0 was onon s Committee doctor who was unaware (
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ned the scoring with Ixugan1^ 311(1 not wearing pn
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d Deriod tective gloves, closed the wound wit
ade 36 saves for the sti?chesJ Louganis qualified for the f
a three-game losing nals and the next da* won the sPnn!
lost eight of its last
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board gold.
er "I had 10 minutes to close the wound,
id at least so he'd be able to dive," Puffer 1
ris said Wednesday from his office at the
Jr, UCLA Medical Center. "I used two large
figure-8 sutures in the wound. Unfortunately.
there were rfo cloves T had to
make a decision.
;P "I made the decision I was going to
u" close it without waiting. Otherwise, he
might not have been able to go to the
~ next round. The risk, while there, was
minimal."
About a year ago, Puffer said, "Greg
^ did inform me he was HIV positive. I
Q subsequently was tested and found HIV
je negative."
The disclosure that Louganis has
I " AIDS brought a quick and sympathetie
ic response from U.S. Olympic Comjs
mittee President LeRoy W alker.
s, "The USOC is saddened by the news
in that Greg Louganis is battling this deader
ly illness," Walker said. "And our prayers *
are with him in his fight. At the same
DTr time, we are again reminded about the
^ > need for precautions by doctors and trainr"
ers who treat injuries where blood is involved."
Since 1989, the USOC has adopted
16 strict guidelines about treatment and
^ prevention of athletes' blood, including
_ rules that doctors, trainers and chiro?r
g praetors use latex gloves.
^ International Olympic Committee
d medical director Dr. Patrick Schamasch
said there was no reason for concern
^ about Louganis contaminating the pool
j. in Seoul.
ie "Such a tiny amount of blood in a
3, huge amount of water is not really a
a. risk," he said by telephone from Paris.
S Schamasch's view was supported by
it Gunnar Wemer, secretary of the interb
national swimming federation FINA.
h Werner said a special FINA com;e
mittee was formed three years ago to investigate
the possible risks of blood in
the pool caused by injuries in water polo
matches.
0 "It was clearly said that there was
no danger wnatsoever, Werner said by
^ phone from his offices in Sweden. "There
is absolutely no danger for anybody else
j in the water at the same time."
The gold medals in Seoul, on top of
jc two in Los Angeles in 1984, ended Lougajf
nis' diving career. One of his former
> coaches, U.S. Diving President Steve
h McFarland, said they also underscored
i- a change in Louganis' attitude and
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