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Interested in taking The Gamecock’s Sports Challenge? if you can beat the editors, you’ll win a free Gamecock T-Shirt. Send in your picks to gamecocksports@hotmail.com by 2 p.m. Thursday. We’ll select ONE person at random to be our reader of the week, whose picks will appear in Friday’s issue. This week’s games: i 20 California at 1 Arizona 9 Okla. State at 3 Texas 19 Indiana at 8 Louisville 17 Wake Forest at North Carolina 18 Marquette at Cincinnati 21 Miss. State at 15 Georgia LSU at 23 Alabama Tennessee at Auburn Clemson at N.C. State 7 Kentucky at USC Rankings are from The Associated Press. U FOR TIEBREAKING PURPOSES, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR SCORE FOR THE KENTUCKY-USC Rothenberg CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 it out in person, but I could easily watch a meaningful regular-sea son game if I wanted instant of fense. Does anybody wonder why so few penalties are called? It’s be cause no thugs are allowed, or at least, that’s what I think the league conspires to do. Believe me, if I had a nickel for everything I thought Commissioner Gary Bettman did to damage the NHL, I might be a rich man. He talks a good game, but how can people in Buffalo, N.Y., and Ottawa be excited about these all-star affairs when they risk losing their own teams? Television ratings for the NHL All-Star Game have plummeted in recent years, not as if they were so strong to begin with. The regular Caeaauu lanugo aren’t so great, ei ther, regardless of what Bettman might say. Besides, with NHL players in the Winter Olympics every ■ Bettman four years, why bother having an annual game that means little? At least in the Olympics, the players have their national pride to play for, not some nice, warm feeling they would get from winning an all-star game. Sure, all-star games can pump a little extra money into a local or regional economy, and they might give an otherwise small town more exposure on a national, or international in the NHL’s case, level. Yet, why must players, coaches and fans be subjected to these yearly spectacles that do lit tle to arouse interest, except ailiuilg lilt games Why should the fans care when some of the players don’t? I think that’s a good question. Decades ago, when all-star games were first devised, all the major professional leagues were much smaller, and it was more of an event to bring the leagues’ best players out for one game. There wasn’t all the hoopla that sur rounds the game itself, and play ers took their selections as a great honor. But now, it seems that these games are just put on to satiate the sponsors’ desires to increase sup port or market new ideas, as well as to bring in a bit of funding to the city and to the league. The game itself plays second fiddle. It appears the interest in these all-star games is fading fast among fans. The leagues must devise some plan to make these contests more worthwhile to watch. If not, these stars are bound to die. Rothenberg is a fourth-year sports-management student. Women’s CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 and Penn is an open-court, slash ing one. This battle will be the most important one of the game. In addition to Penn’s newly set records, there is another that she is closing in on. Penn only needs 32 steals to become the SEC’s all-time leader. The turnover-prone Gators come into the game averaging 20 turnovers per game and should help Penn in her drive to the top. Penn has more motivation for Thursday’s game, as well. Last week, she lost her spot as the na tion’s leading scorer, and a big game could put her at the top once again. Another big matchup is Carolina guard Cristina Ciocan against Lowe, Florida’s other freshman sensation. Ciocan has the size and experience advan tage and should be able to match up well. If she has problems, watch for Kelly Morrone or Sarah Burgess to pick up Lowe. All of this should add up to an extremely competitive game be tween two teams that are disap pointed with their starts in Southeastern Conference play. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Men’s CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 “We’ve got a tough game against South Carolina, and it’s obviously a game that we have to win,” he said. “It’s hard to score on a lot of teams in this league, and we’ve got another one against South Carolina.” This is the Gamecocks’ sec ond straight game on the road in a series that puts them away from home four out of five games. The game is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. start at Thompson Boling Arena and will not be shown on television. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Bucs CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 waved signs and chanted as the “coaches and players came into sight. 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