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I SEC FOOTBALL NEWS AND NOTES iEC hands out eekly awards For thq second time this sea n, Alabama running back aud Williams was named SEC fensive Player of the Week af • setting three career highs, illiams posted 30 rushing at npts for 174 yards and three achdowns that gave the imson Tide a 27-17 victory er the Kentucky Wildcats, le senior from Andrews, xas, gained 88 yards in the :ond half and scored two irth-quarter touchdowns that helped bury the Wildcats. Arkansas linebacker Caleb Miller was named Defensive Player of the Week in his 11 tackle, one-sack and one-fumble recovery performance in the 38 28 upset of then No. 5 Texas in Austin. The junior from Sulphur Springs, Texas helped the Razorbacks hold the Longhorns to 62 yards rushing. The Special Teams Player of the Week was given to Georgia punter Gordon Ely-Kelso in the Bulldogs 31-7 win against USC. Ely-Kelso averaged 41 yards in five punts with four being inside the Carolina 20-yard line. His longest punt of the day was 50 yards and USC only had 12 re turn yards on the day. Razorbacks’ Jones gets national honor USAToday.com named Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones national Player of the Week after he went 8-for-16 with 139 yards and no interceptions. He also carried the ball 12 times for 102 yards an a rushing touch down in the dominate win over Texas. Jones rushed for over 100 yards for the fourth time in his career and helped the Razorbacks gain a No. 14 rank ing this week. Four ranked teams highlight weekend Although there are only two SEC games scheduled for this week, both have a lot of signifi cance for all of the teams. The No. 12 Tennessee Volunteers (2 0) head to Gainesville, Fla., to take on the No. 17 Florida Gators (2-1). The game kicks off the con ference season for both teams. The Vols lead the overall series 17-15, although Florida won last season 30-13 in Knoxville, Tenn. The game will be televised by CBS at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The other SEC game also fea tures two nationally ranked teams as No. 7 Georgia (3-0,1-0 SEC) visits No. 11 LSU in Baton Rouge, La. It’s the first meeting between the two schools since 1999 when the Bulldogs won 23 22 in Athens, Ga. LSU leads the overall series 12-9-1. CBS will also televise this game, sched uled to begin at 2:30 p.m. Clemson selects Pete Yanily to succeed longtime announcer | BY PETE IACOBELLI " THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEMSON — Upstate broad caster Pete Yanity was chosen Tuesday to call Clemson football this season, bringing a comfort ing, familiar voice to Tiger fans knocked back by the death of longtime announcer Jim Phillips. Yanity, a sideline reporter at Clemson since 2001, has been a reg ular figure in Upstate TV and ra dio for more than a decade. He’ll continue as sports director at WSPA-TV in Spartanburg, where he has worked the past 13 years. He also will continue as host of the TV show for Wofford coach Mike Ayers. In addition to the play-by play, Yanity will host the weekly TV show for Clemson coach | Tommy Bowden. Phillips, 69, was known as “The Voice of the Tigers.” He died sud denly last week after an aneurysm in his aorta. Only days earlier, Phillips had called his 401st Clemson football game in his 36th year with the school. “We’re never going to fill Jim’s shoes,” said David Hubbard, gen eral manager of Clemson Tiger Sports Properties. “The tough part of this is we still have to do games. Clemson fans are familiar with Pete and he’s familiar with the op eration.” Yanity will be in the booth Saturday night when the Tigers travel to Georgia Tech. “I’m so honored, I’m so blessed to have this opportunity, with all due respect to how this opportu nity came about,” Yanity said. Yanity still mourns Phillips, a friend and mentor. And it would’ve been more difficult to work through things at the mi crophone had not Yanity sat in last week’s Clemson broadcast, which turned into a full-fledged tribute of Phillips’ career. Sports information director Tim Bourret was asked by Phillips’ family to call the game. Phillips’ former sideline reporter Rodney Williams returned to his old role. Phillips’ close friend, for mer “Voice of the Gamecocks” Bob Fulton, called a Clemson se ries that ended in a touchdown. Bourret’s call was well received by Clemson fans, some asking he continue. However, Bourret said the demands of his current job are too much to make that possible. Hubbard said there’s no time frame to fill Phillips’ many duties at Clemson. Phillips called more than 2,000 Clemson sporting events in football, men’s and wom en’s basketball and baseball. He also hosted football and men’s bas ketball call-in radio shows and TV shows each week. The school and Clemson Tiger Sports Properties, a joint venture of Learfleld Communications and ISP Sports, will conduct a nation al search for the football job. Hubbard said it might be 2004 be fore a permanent football re placement is found. As far as split ting Phillips’ duties up, “your guess is as good as mine,” he said. Hubbard said Yanity’s name would go into the mix of candidates for the full-time job. “I think by do ing it now,” Yanity says, “it’s as good an audition as I can think of.” For now, Yanity hopes he has soaked up some of Phillips’ pro fessionalism and style. Phillips’ strength was managing fans’ emotions about Clemson success or failure. “He’s the guy who was kind of driving the stagecoach through all of that,” Yanity said. “That’s a real credit that he was able to do that for so many years.” 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: Kentucky at Indiana 7 Georgia at 11 LSU Colorado at 10 Florida St. 3 Michigan at 22 Oregon 12 Tennessee at 17 Florida Northwestern at Duke Michigan St. at Notre Dame 16 Arizona St. at 18 iowa Clemson at Georgia Tech UAB at USC Rankings are from The Associated Press. u FOR TIE-BREAKING PURPOSES, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR SCORE FOR THE UAB-USC GAME, AND DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME! Just for You! The limited edition Swing Wallet (a $24 value) is yours with a Purchase of $75 or more while quantities last. Ask your store associate for details! t—1 ■ Initially Yours COlUmBIA LUGGFIGC 1111 Lady Street 803-765-9010 Next to Chick-Fil-A Downtown Coupon Valid September 15-22, 2003 SEC Standings EASTERN CONF. OVERALL GeorgiaT-03-0 Florida0-02-1 Tennessee 0-02-0 Kentucky0-11-2 South Carolina 0-12-1 Vanderbilt 0-2 1-2 WESTERN CONF.OVERALL Auburn1-01-2 Ole Miss 1-02-1 #Alabama 1-02-1 Arkansas0-02-0 Louisiana State 0-03-0 Miss. State 0-0 0-2 #NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CONFERENCE TITLE ■ ■ ■ ijuarteroacKS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 game record with four touch downs. He’s thrown that many scoring passes twice more, in cluding last week, against Middle Tennessee. Whitehurst ranks second in the Atlantic Coast Conference and 19th na tionally in passing. Whitehurst was as crisp as he’s-ever been, hitting on 23 of 28 passes to defeat the Blue Raider^ 37-14. “You kind of get in a zone there in the middle of the game and it feels like you can do any thing you want sometimes”, Whitehurst said. South Carolina coaches think they’ve got that same kind of quarterback. Right now, though, they’re not sure who that is. “I don’t know, I don’t the answer,” Skip Holtz said. WWW. 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It was my pleasure to meet with Lorie Edwards, The Director of Computer Services and her staff. \ After receiving a tour of the Computer Services facility and learning a little more about the computer network that everyone student on campus is connect to, we discussed the recent virus attack on USC’s system and the possibility of a long-term solution to future incidents. I will be working with Lorie and her staff in order to use SG to set up a program of prevention and awareness for any future computer problems that may arise, due to viruses, ^k shutdowns, ect. \ Student Government would like to commend the hard working staff at computer services for their efforts in the past few weeks to clean out more than 1,000 computers on campus. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the office of Student Government for assistance. Katie Dreiling - Student Body President CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING NEW FRESHMAN COUNCIL MEMBERS!!!! 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