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Friday, February 2,1996
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> 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
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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
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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.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.?Ron Brown ii
was fired after leading Florida A&M to v
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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L OLYMPICS si
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i ATLANTA?Olympic Stadium, the g
85,000-seat centerpiece of the 1996 a
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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.
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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
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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.
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Time is \
running out.
Classes for the
April exam begin
in early February.
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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.
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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.
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