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PENDING GAME SCHEDULE VOLLEYBALL in Carolina Classic, Friday-Saturday FOOTBALL vs. Bowling Green, 7 p.m. Saturday MEN'S SOCCER vs. Elon, 2 p.m. Sunday WOMEN'S SOCCER vs. Tulane, 1 p.m. Sunday MEN'S GOLF at the Inverness Intercollegiate, Monday Terrorism puts college sports on hold - • BY CHRIS FOY THE GAMECOCK Because of the national tragedy at hand, the collegiate sporting world has come to a near halt. Countless collegiate sporting events from volleyball to football have either been canceled or post poned. All three NCAA football games scheduled for Thursday night have been postponed. Penn State at Virginia, Ohio at North Carolina State and Texas Tech at UTEP will be moved to a later date. Saturday’s highly anticipat ed game between Miami and Washington has been postponed as well. More postponements could be on the way. The commissioners of the 10 Division I football conferences will conduct a conference call today at 1 p.m. to determine the status of this weekend’s games. Before they do so, they will consult with their respective member schools. NCAA president Cedric Dempsey feels the tragedy far out weighs any sporting event. “The games themselves are in significant in the face of what has happened today,” Dempsey said. "Our focus is entirely on the safety of student-athletes, athletics per sonnel and fans. We urge schools to make sound decisions about proceeding with contests today and in the coming days.” The ACC has announced that all intercollegiate athletic events through Thursday involving mem ber schools have been canceled. As for South Carolina athletics, tonight’s volleyball match-up at Clemson has been postponed, as well as the women’s soccer home match versus Furman. No make up dates have been de termined at this point. USC ath letics have no events planned for Thursday. Two other events, the Saturday football game against Bowling Green and the Carolina Classic Volleyball Tournament, are still planned to take place. Bowling Green and Michigan State, which is scheduled to participate in the Carolina Classic, had planned on flying into town. Currently, flights are expected to resume today at noon, but that could change. Assuming flights will resume and the NCAA doesn’t cancel all of its Saturday games, both teams are going to continue to prepare for a game. Bowling Green Sports Information Director J.D. Campbell said, “We’re moving for ward as if the game is going to be played as scheduled.” Campbell said that if the game were to be canceled, it would be done closer to the time of their de parture. USC Assistant Athletic Director Kerry Tharp shared similar con cerns. “We’re monitoring the situa tion,” Tharp said. “Certainly, we’ll be responsive to any change nec essary in light of this tragedy.” USC stadiums, which would have been full of Gamecock faithful if not for the recent events, will be empty today and perhaps longer, photo special to the gamecock SPORTS TAKE A BACK-SEAT TO TRAGEDY Barry Bonds will have to wait to resume home run record chase Slugger’s chase at 70postponed indefinitely HOUSTON (AP) - Enron Field was silent Tuesday, its game post poned and Barry Bonds’ home run chase put on hold. “A baseball game is not very important at this time,” Houston Astros general manager Gerry Hunsicker said. “When we play next or whatever is not important. It’s an unfolding situation.” Terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington caused the postponement of all major league baseball games Tuesday. The decision came hours before Bonds and the San Francisco Giants were to play the Astros in the start of a three-game series. No players were at the stadium, and the Astros closed the ballpark. The Giants remained at their hotel along with Bonds, who has 63 home runs, eight short of break ing the record set three years ago by St. Louis’ Mark McGwire. Before Tuesday, San Francisco was scheduled to play 18 games. Katy Feeney, baseball’s vice president of scheduling and club relations, arrived in Houston ear ly Tuesday just before all flights were grounded by federal author ities. She said it was too early to say how commissioner Bud Selig will move on the schedule. Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants is only eight home runs away from breaking Mark McGwire’s record of 70. He was looking to add to his total today In Houston’s Enron Field, photo special to the gamecock Pro sports shut down indefinitely as nation mourns BY CHARLES REX ARBOGAST ASSOCIATED PRESS Sports came to a standstill Tuesday in the wake of terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, with major league baseball postponing a full sched ule of regular-season games for the first time since D-Day in 1944. The daily grind of professional and college practices halted, as athletes and their coaches tried to come to grips with the tragedy. Ballparks were empty, race tracks were dark and sports tele vision networks dropped highlight films and replayed scenes of the day’s devastation. "This is a sad, sad day in America,” golfer Tiger Woods said. Aside from work stoppages, it was the first time since the Allied invasion of France that baseball wiped out a whole day of regular season play. "In the interest of security and out of a sense of deep mourning for the national tragedy that has oc curred today, all major league baseball games for today have been canceled,” baseball commis sioner Bud Selig said. The NFL, criticized for playing after President Kennedy’s assas sination in 1963, said it wasn’t sure whether to play this weekend’s schedule. College football commissioners “I will continue to monitor the situation on a daily basis and make ongoing decisions accordingly.” BUD SELIG COMMISSIONER MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL were considering the postpone ment of the weekend’s entire schedule of games, with a decision expected as early as Wednesday. The PGA Tour canceled Thursday’s starts of the World Golf Championship and two other tournaments. Stunned Olympic officials said security for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics will be com pletely reevaluated but vowed the games will go on as planned in five months. A $200 million plan to protect athletes and spectators is no longer sufficient in the wake of Tuesday’s attacks, said Mitt Romney, president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. "I look for the federal govern ment to revisit the public safety plans for the games,” Romney told The Associated Press. “We will be fully engaged in that process and ♦ POSTPONED, SEE PAGE 14 Undefeated Lady Gamecocks to take on Clemson Makeup date• hasn't been determined yet BY RICK JOHNSTON the gamecock The USC volleyball team will be squaring off against archrival Clemson in a match that has been postponed indefinitely. The Lady Gamecocks (6-0) are coming off their second straight tournament championship, cap turing the Miami/Best Western Classic championship over the weekend at Miami (Ohio) University and the Sun Devil Challenge championship in Tempe, Ariz., one week earlier. The Lady Tigers are currently 4-3, coming off of a 2-1 showing at the Big Orange Bash at Clemson. Wright State won the tournament with a 3-0 record. USC will be led by their quartet of All-SEC juniors in Sam Alban, Berna Dwyer, Megan Hosp and Cally Plummer. Hosp, the setter for the Lady Gamecocks, was named to the All Tournament team in Miami and was named tournament MVP in the Sun Devil Challenge. Plummer was tournament MVP at the Miami tournament. "Megan and Cally stepped up this weekend as great leaders. We had to come from behind in the third game and their leadership was a large reason,” USC head coach Kim Christopher said after the Miami tournament. Plummer, who plays right side, will be complimented by Clemson senior right side Jodi Steffes. Plummer hit .531, while notch ing 20 kills, three aces, six digs and three block assists in the match against Illinois State in Miami. SteffeS hit .636 along with 15 kills in the UNC-Wilmington match. Hosp will be matched up against Clemson junior setter Jessi Betcher. Against Illinois State, Hosp dished out 39 assists. Betcher de livered 26 assists against Appalachian State. Betcher is one of Clemson head coach Jolene Jordan-Hoover’s fa vorite players because of her en thusiasm and leadership “One of the first people you no tice when watching our team is Jessi. She is really enthusiastic and has a smile on her face whether we are five up or five down. She is very much an emo tional leader and has an extremely strong work ethic, which encour ages the team to play for her. She is the glue between the passers and the hitters and directs our of fense,” she said. However, a place where the Lady Tigers may have problems matching up against USC will be in the middle. Redshirt freshman Niece Curry, a 6-foot-4 middle blocker, has quickly become a force in the middle. Curry was named to the Miami All Tournament team. Curry will be joined by the 6 foot Alban and the 6-foot-3 Dwyer in the middle. The Tigers will probably count on sophomore Marija Zoric to counter Curry, given their equal height. Zoric hit .538 and tallied eight kills in Clemson’s match against UNC-Wilmington. Another Tiger middle blocker, junior Anne Berki had five blocks, with one solo, against Appalachian State in the Big Orange Bash. Fans will see the matchup be tween USC’s defensive specialists senior Liz Price and freshman Bridget White and the Tigers’ four defensive specialists, led by senior ■> ♦ VOLLEYBALL, SEE PAGE 15 The USC volleyball team Is 6-0 on the year and waits for the chance to win Its seventh. The Lady Gamecocks were supposed to play Clemson today, photo special to the gamecock