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Friday, February 2,1996 Triple Troubl against SEC > ROBBIE MEEK Sports Editor i The Carolina Basketball team learned * an important lesson on Wednesday night- 1 you have to compete for 40 minutes. 1 The Gamecocks didn't play well for 1 il.C-iOA ; 1 J 1 r uie lirai la> mmuujs tuiu were aown oy three points at the half to Wofford, a team ranked 305 out of 305 Division I teams at the beginning of the season. It took a 36-4 run in the second half for the Gamecocks to finally pull through 82-55. You can bet Carolina won't be able to go into Bud Walton Arena Saturday and beat Arkansas with only one half of basketball. In feet, the Gamecocks will probably be in for one of their toughest games this season when they face the SEC West leading Razorbacks. The backcourt play could be the key to the game. The Arkansas back court Larr \ 6C 21 \ Bud Johnson \ -J 6-10"r UpA Melvi 6i Fs y) Malik Russell / 6-7 220 / BJ 6^ SPORTS BRIEFS Associ BASKETBALL E NEW YORK - Magic Johnson's return to the NBA gave Turner Sports b its highest late-night NBA rating ever, c the network said. o TNT made some late changes to b televise Johnson's return to the Los J Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night against Golden State, and it paid off with a 4.4 d Nielsen cable rating. It's the highest b NBA rating on either TNT or TBS this b season and meant the game was seen p in about 2,929,000 homes. n TALLAHASSEE, Fla.?Ron Brown ii was fired after leading Florida A&M to v nnlv 1 F\ mpfnrina m Iqcp fiill k \JXX?J -?-w T1VW1IW U1 itoo UiOU 1UU ik seasons. $ Athletics director Ken Riley said former women's coach Mickey Clayton F would coach the team for the final seven games of the season and could be a candidate to become the permanent q replacement. b Florida A&M was 15-59 under Brown, C mrhifting a 5-36 record in the Mid-Eastern p Athletic Conference. The Rattlers are 613 this season. a C,<0^hdt AN HISTORIC RE Efficiency One Bedroom 1 UV7 x/VUI UUULI Rents include all utiliti All rates quoted are n (Leases available, prices i Summer Sp $100 per month May 1 - Aug Located across 1 University of Sout Horseshoe and the J Cornell Arms offers location for downt (803) 799-14 1230 PENDLETON COLUMBIA, SC le leads Ga West leadi s led by junior lesse Pate and I reshman Kareem iteid. Pate is scoring with 14.8 jpg, which ranks um 13 in tlis SEC. ^ leid ranks second jj The Gamecocks DAVIS ire led in the >ackcourt by Lany Davis, Melvin Watsoi ind BJ McKie. Davis is fourth in the SEC with 17.' >pg, and his 84.4 free throw percentag eads the SEC. Watson is averaging 13j \TVT an/1 ia airtU+l* in ?in4l jyj5 CLL?KX 10 ClgJLlLll UJL UilC VAyHlCI W J Li 1.2 apg. McKie, the lone freshman b he backcourt, led the team in scorinj Wednesday night with 19 points. An interesting match-up could be a G4 F 55 y Davis Derek Ho 3190 6-8 206 BlO G12 n Watson Kareem Ri 2195 5-11 162 r \ G 3 G 4 McKie Jesse Pal 2185 6-2193 !ated_ Press SASEBALL PITTSBURGH - Major leagu< iaseball's eight-member ownershij ommittee voted to approve the purchas< f the Pittsburgh Pirates by a group lec iy California businessman Kevii flctJiatcny. The vote came one day before th< leadline the team's current owners hac nposed for McClatchy, who has exclusive bargaining rights, to complete th( urchase believed to be worth $90 million The ownership committee is awaiting lore paperwork from McClatchy before t refers his bid to all 28 owners for i ote. He is a partner with 12 others anc 3 believed to have personally invested 12 million. -OOTBALL CINCINNATI ?Former Ohio State uarterback Art Schliditer will be allowec o satisfy a two-year sentence from ai )hio court at the same time he is ir irison on federal convictions. Schlichter, 35, who describes himsel s a compulsive gambler, is in a federa ESIDENCE $405 $465 $500 es and cable TV. ipnth to month subject to change) ecial discount ust 1 From the h Carolina State Capital, the premier own living. 142 I STREET 29201 SPO mecocks er Arkansas center, where Arkansas will rotate juniors Lee Wilson and Darnell Robinson. Both were key reserves the last two seasons on the National Championship and runner-up teams. Wilson ranks tenth in the SEC in blocks. The Gamecocks will shuffle junior Nate Wilbourne and freshman Bud Johnson. Wilbourne is expected to be back to J full strength for the first game since spraining his ankle two weeks ago against Alabama. He is averaging 13.5 ppg and a 6.1 rpg. Johnson has done a great job starting 7 in Dlace of Wilbourne the last three e games. He scored 15 points and grabbed 5 nine rebounds against Wofford. i The game will tip off at 3 p.m. a Saturday. It will be televised on regional g television. The Gamecocks will be at Auburn Wednesday night. t od / C33 / Lee Wilson ^ 6-11258 Kid I F40 I [ \ Sunday Adebayo \ 6-6 212 ~K (803) 794-2948 * 5 Minutes fro $200 off second month's rent The Lowest Price VI^KM'VI OJ^pUTHQ ... . ^ Furniture .Clothing an< To Suit All T; m Pgliifcjji. 0 w" m to , to 3300 Two?Not 754-20/ -I prison in Terre Haute, Ind., on theft and fi fraud convictions. He appeared in ? Hamilton County Common Pleas Court A 3 on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to six fi 3 counts of grand theft. $ 1 Schlichter played for the Baltimore s i and Indianapolis Colts and Buffalo Bills, e 3 SAN DIEGO ?Former NFL C 1 defensive back Nelson Munsey pleaded n > innocent to a variety of weapons charges, v 3 two days after a standoff with a SWAT tl team. it r Munsey, 47, had his bail reduced 3 from $5,000 to $1,000 at Municipal Court T i and was transferred from the city jail to 1 the county jail. A readiness hearing is I scheduled Feb. 14. T Munsey played for the Baltimore d Colts and Minnesota Vikings and is the V brother of former NFL running back tl Chuck Muncie. s; L OLYMPICS si 1 . a i ATLANTA?Olympic Stadium, the g 85,000-seat centerpiece of the 1996 a f Summer Games, needs to have parts of ft I its steel skeleton reinforced, an engineering E 1HVERKEN ALTERNATIVE to C RTS Athletes se Dallas 27, Pittsburgh 17. Sorry, folks, but I had to do it. Please, pardon the blatant lack of newsworthiness, but this one's been a long time coming. As an aspiring sports journalist, I like to consider myself an objective observer of sports. With a few exceptions, Fll be impartial as possible when watching a game. One of those exceptions just happens to be the Dallas Cowboys, who recently won their third Super Bowl in four years to stake their claim to the title "Team of the 90s." In the days of Roger Staubach, Randy White, Drew Pearson and Tony Dorsett, I pulled for the Cowboys, who were labeled "America's Team." They had just the right mix of talent, grit, and determination to catch the fancy of football fans across the country. Nowadays, the Cowboys are viewed as just the opposite. Despite the fact that they have one of the most talented and dominant teams ever, it seems no one will pull any punches when assaulting the Cowboy's character, ability or mental capacity. Now,fans are one thing. Supporters of sports teams who pay good money to see their team have everv right to Dull against or profess their hatred for their teams opponents. However, when reporters.or broadcasters, who are paid to report on a team, use their positions to advance their view of the team, the key element of reporting is lost. Objectivity is a constituent in reporting that is not difficult to attain but is all too easy to lose. Slip up on something and you'll be forever branded a "cheerleader" or "homer" of a certain team. You see, people don't want to be insulted with a slant that attempts to give them a particular opinion instead of letting them decide for themselves. unsaid. Antranij Ouzoonian of Weidlinger associates, a New York-based engineering irm that reviewed construction of the 230 million stadium, said the steel upports need to be "fine-tuned and nhanced." A spokeswoman for the Atlanta Jommittee for the Olympic Games would ot comment on whether the stadium rould have been safe for spectators, but tie contractor and engineering firm said ; would have been. ENNIS LONDON ? The International bonis Federation said it would vigorously efend itself against court action by Mats blander and Kard Novacek, who accused tie organization of a drugs allegations mear. Lawyers for the two players have erved a writ on the ITF, in which they rgue Wilander and Novacek were not iven a fair chance to defend themselves gainst allegations they tested positive jr cocaine during the 1995 French Open, loth players deny the allegations. ??v IP APARTMENTS >ORM LIVING 3 Bedroom from $490 I Bedroom from $400 I Bedroom from $360 Courtesy Security /olleyball 5ools & Tennis Courts m ! Laundry Facilities m use I if you present this ad. s Everyday TERANS mOIJNA TORE : d Appliances... '' t < ' ^ D IStCSL .. | cH Road 2_ II c ttle games, n< v ?~zzzzzhziziiiiiz!? One thing on, i that really gets I to me is, if a FJNiS into reporter who is Stat biased towards jmp. anything for ? sp0r that matter, ***** * WV< then how can SO-Cf readers and BIS5SH ^ viewers trust j, that they're getting all sides of the gtee story? over I'm compelled to refer to one q particular instance to illustrate the " importance of this. g The Cowboys lost at Philadelphia j in the regular season. ^ ( Head Coach Barry Switzer made , wha a horrible call late in the contest that probably cost Dallas the game. The following week, the verdict weij* was in. On radio sports talk shows, in ^as newspapers and on television, the ^ ^ consensus was that Dallas was dead. a ?n On a sydicated radio talk show, hosts professed their hate for the wan Cowboys while gloating over the loss. 801114 Callers who defended Switzer were h?ur assaulted in moronic and ignorant 1 npnr icirns. rvwi A headline over a Dallas prm< newsDaDer announced, "Barry, it's with time to go." sent More recently, during the week celel before the Super Bowl, The State sent A sports editor Bob Spear and senior posit writer David Newton to cover the theii game. T Readers of The State may recall objei a few months ago.when Spear hyp professed his disdain for the Cowboys, them In his column, Spear promoted the 0r pc fictional "ABD" club (Anybody But ? Dallas). infoi Spear's expression of his opinion Stan about a team on the other side of the they country is fine with me, but send him j^e to the Super Bowl to cover the specific g team he admits to disliking? Come ^ave Johnson give a lesson in b Staff Reports B If she made the schedule for the USC women's basketball team, Shannon Johnson would pencil in Appalachian State at every opportunity. USC's senior guard, who set the I school single-game record with 44 points against Appalachian State last year, hit them for 50 points in a 78-77 nunrfimo xinn Wnrlrioorloxr nirrkf VTUVUliU TT ill ? ? V/VUlV/kJUUJ lUgJLib. Johnson, the Boost/Naismith College Player of the Year candidate, was 19 lis of 37 from the field, breaking the record pi for most attempts (32) and tying the 2,1 record for most field goals made. She scored 40 of her 50 points in Fc the second half, hitting 6 of 11 three- po point shots. Johnson, an All-SEC member two 2C years in a row, led the conference in scoring for nine consecutive weeks this ^ season and is currently second in the conference. ? She is averaging 25.8 points per Seating is limited. i Time is \ running out. Classes for the April exam begin in early February. DEAD MAN WALKING (R) WAI (1:15) 4:15 7:15 9:50 (1 :OC WHITE SQUALL (PG-13) FROI (1:45) 4:30 7:10 9:45 RESTORATION (R) Jl (1:10) 4:10 7:OS 9:35 THE JUROR (R) 1 (1 :30) 4:20 7:00 9:30 (1 :0' EYE FOR AN EYE (R) (1:05) 3:15 5:25 7:35 9:55 argain Matinee $3.00 (before 3PM), $3.75 (3PM 61 I gMMti lisiiri 5 ot media low. t seems a bit more logic would go informing loyal readers of The e about an event with as much act as the Super Bowl. )n a larger scale, a sydicated ts talk show airs weekdays on 3C 2 1400 AM. On the show, a tiled journalist named rapa Bear 5 his insights into the sports world t just so happens he's a Pittsburgh ler fan. And worse, he flaunts it the airwaves day in and day out )ne could only imagine how he tded the week before the Super L Ivery day, listeners throughout 1 country were bombarded with 11 assume was the Steeler fight \ and proclamations that "we" i going to win against Dallas, could understand if this station serving the city of Pittsburgh, for the whole country? Give me ' jak. lo one outside of the Steel Gity ts to hear someone drool over ?ne else's beloved team for three s. Tin 1 o r\nf itrki/tU fnnm fkAnn nc jjuuib id nut wiuui icaui uiirac lie bash or support, it's the :iple of credibility we're dealing ' i here. T wnnlH hold the same ;iments if these were shows >rating the Cowboys, ill too often people with the ion of informing the public abuse * positions. 'hese "reporters" who preach ctivity will render themselves ocritical when they allow iselves to be influenced by emotion irsonal prejudice. >o these disseminators of rmation believe in credibility? dards? Ethics? What's more, do hold the public's intelligence and pendence in high regard? adly, for now the answer would i to be no. s ASU asketball Ml game and is I leading the conference in three-point shots with 3.0 per game. The Hartsville, S.C., native is now second on the uMcnu Lady Gamecocks' all-time scoring t with 2,030 points. She is the second ayer in school history to reach the 300 point milestone. Former Lady Gamecocks' Sheila >ster finished her career with 2,666 lints. USC is currently 13-6 and ranked 15 in the Southeastern Conference ter upsetting then number 23 Ole iss last week. The Lady Gamecocks travel to emson to face the Lady Tigers on onday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. I \ I L A 1 W 1-800-KAP-TEST get a higher score KAPLAN| TING TO EXHALE (R) >) 4:00 7:00 10:00 M DUSK TIL DAWN (R) 4:4 O 9:40 JMANJI (PG) (1 :40) 7:25 TOY STORY (G) O) 3:00 5:00 7:00 HEAT* (R) 9:OQ Only! I 'MM ) Saturday & Sunday only I