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SPORTS LOOK
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USC men's basketball coach Eddie
Fogler announced Tuesday that sophomore
center Peter Van Elswyk will
leave the school following the conclusion
of spring semester.
Van Elswyk will announce his
plans to transfer to another institution
at a later date.
"Peter has done well here over
the past two seasons, but has never
felt comfortable playing the center
position," Fogler said. "I understand
his feeling about wanting to berin a
program where he can be more of a
perimeter player. We appreciate his
contributions to our team on and off
the court, and we wish Peter the best
in his future endeavors."
"I realize I am not going to reach
my full potential here at the University
of South Carolina, so I feel
if s in my best interest to transfer to
another school. I wish my teammates
here good luck," Van Elswyk said.
BASEBALL
MINNEAPOLIS ? Bob Allison, a
1959 Rookie of the Year who became
one of the early stars of the Minnesota
Twins, died Sunday. He was 60.
Allisnn stnnrv*} hnpathincr ami in H
midnight while watching television
with his wife, Betty, at his Arizona
home, his eldest son Mark said.
Doctors believe Allison may have
died from aspiration in the lungs related
to ataxia, a neurodegenerative
disorder, or from a massive heart attack.
BASKETBALL
HOUSTON ? Houston Rockets center
Hakeem Olajuwon and guard Vernon
Maxwell remain stricken with
iron-deficiency anemia.
Olajuwon, who also has primary
hypothyroidism, and Maxwell practiced
with the team, but blood tests
indicated neither has recovered. They
have been sidelined since March 28.
Meanwhile, Clyde Drexler was
selected NBA player of the week af
ter averaging a league-high 315 points
in four games.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. ? Detroit
Pistons coach Don Chaney and assistants
KC. Jones and Brendan Malone
will be fired after this season, the
Detroit Free Press reported.
The newspaper, citing unidentified
sources, said the Pistons also will
not renew the contract of Billy McKinney,
vice president of basketball
toiy. South Carolina beat its highest
ranked opponent of the season and
its ninth ranked foe overall.
HOCKEY
NEW YORK? New Jersey's Martin
Brodeur was selected NHL player
of the week following consecutive
shutouts against Ottawa and the
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TENNIS
TOKYO ? Andre Agassi ended Pete
Sampras' 82-week run at the top
of the world rankings without even
playing a match in the Japan Open.
Agassi, who won the U.S. and Australian
Open and five other events
in the past 12 months, had 4,403
points to 4,216 for Sampras in the
ATP Tour rankings. Agassi, who had
a first-round bye, begins play today.
HOUSTON ? Sweden's Asa Carlsson
beat Argentina's Bettina FulcoVillella
6-1, 6-3 in the first round of
the Houston Women's Tennis Cham
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South Carolina's women's tennis team
(No. 12) defeated No. 6 Duke 5-4 on
Tuesday.
Karolina Bulat, Tracy Kotseos
and Muriel Abella each won their
singles matches for the Lady Gamecocks.
Victoria Davies and Tobi Rakic
of USC defeated the Blue Devils'
Wendy Lyons and Monica Mraz 3-6,
6-3,6-4 to clinch the match for South
Carolina.
Bulat and Heather Greene teamed
up to give USC its other doubles vie
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JIMMY PeBUTTS Sports Editor
The USC softball team will play a
doubleheader against Nicholls State today
at 3 p.m.
? The Lady Gamecocks will be going
for their 38th win of the season. Lead_
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been their talented pitching staff. Trinity
Johnson and Darlene Gareis are the
only two Lady Gamecocks with wins this
year.
Johnson has 19 wins to lead the team.
She also leads the team with an .84 ERA.
Gareis has a 18-3 record with an .95
ERA.
Johnson has 245 strikeouts this season,
with only 37 walks. Gareis has 84
strikeouts and is holding opposing batters
to a .198 batting average.
USC is riding a six-game winning
streak in which the Lady Gamecocks
have averaged more than six runs a
game. Their opponents during this streak
have managed just four runs.
USC has been led offensively in 1995
by Dana Fulmer. Fulmer leads the team
in home runs (6), total bases (98), doubles
(13), RBI (27), hits (59), runs (43)
and batting average (.434). Fulmer also
leads the team in walks with 28.
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A lot of baseball players accustomed
to million-dollar paychecks are falling
to the ranks of the merely well-to-do.
"It's a changing market out there,"
said Bob Watson, Houston Astros general
manage. "It's been reflected in a lot
of the signings. It's an indication that
the market has changed."
Players without super stats aren't
getting the big bucks ? "taking a shave"
in the parlance of some agents and general
managers.
Tom Browning went from $3.5 million
to $300,000 when he signed with
Kansas City. Bob Welch dropped from
$2.9 million to $225,000 with Oakland.
Bud Black, who made $2.65 million last
year, signed with Cleveland for $350,000.
Mike Devereaux dropped from $2.6 million
to $800,000.
"It's been incredible, just incredible,"
said Bud Selig, acting commissioner.
Dave Stewart dropped from $3.5 million
to $1 million when he signed with
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four doubles. Lee is third on the team
in batting average at .320.
Plew is second on the team in hits
with 46 and fourth on the team in batting
(.319). Plew leads the Lady Gamecocks
in triples with five and is tied for
first in RBIs with Fulmer with 27.
South Carolina has a perfect home
record of 20-0. The Lady Gamecocks
have eight home games remaining. After
today's doubleheader, they will participate
at the Frost Invitational in Chattanooga,
Tenn. April 14-16. Then they
travel to Chapel Hill to play UNC April
19.
USC will return for three double
headers to close out their 1995 home
schedule. South Carolina will meet Texas
A&M for double headers April 22 and
23 and play Furman April 25.
The Lady Gamecocks will finish their
regular season schedule at two tournaments.
April 29-30 they will play at the
Virginia Invitational, and May 13-14
Carolina will participate at the Diamond
Classic at Amherst, Mass.
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Oakland on Saturday. He didn't seem
to mind.
"What the owners are doing now
probably should have been done years
ago without asking us to fix their problem,"
he said. "What's going on right now
isn't any more than what it should have
been."
In the deal most criticized by agents,
catcher Pat Borders signed with Kansas
City for $310,000. He made $2.5 million
last season with Toronto.
"I remember making $5 an hour,"
Borders said. "You have to keep things
in perspective. The salary I just signed
for, you could make $5 an hour for about
15 years and not make that kind of money"
Players and agents said the moves
of the past week show the current system
of free agency and salary arbitration
can adjust to changes in revenue.
Owners claim they lost $700 million in
revenue because of the strike.
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be as follows: the players say all along,
We want fair-market value and the dubs
should exercise restraint and operate on
a budget.' The owners say, We can't do ;
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would be cut by more than 50 percent s
in 1994, the average still increased 4.6 !j
percent in 1993 and 8.6 percent in 1994, s
to about $1.17 million. I
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to multimillion, multiyear deals:
? Outfielder Larry Walker signed with
the Rockies for $22 million over four
fears, and pitcher Bill Swift signed for
i>13.1 million over three.
? Catcher Chris Hoiles re-signed with
:he Orioles for $17.25 million over five
fears.
? Pitcher Pete Harnisch re-signed with
;he Mets for $9 million over three years,
ind reliever John Franco signed for $5
nillion over two.
? Reliever John Burkett signed with
;he Marlins for $6.9 million over two
fears.
For every one of those deals, there
lave been three players who took big
shaves: Terry Mulholland dropped fi-om
>3.35 million to $1.25 million when he
ligned with San Francisco; Bob Tewks>ury
dropped from $3.5 million to $1.5
uillion when he signed with Texas; and
)rel Hershiser dropped from $3 million
o $1.45 million when he signed with
Cleveland.
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