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Attorney in Bryant case charged with smearing BY JON SARCHE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EAGLE, COLO. — Prosecutors accused Kobe Bryant’s attorneys of deliberately smearing the rep utation of his accuser Tuesday as they asked a judge to make sure any evidence about her sexual _history is heard behind closed ^H)ors. In a sharply worded court fil ing, prosecutors said defense at torney Pamela Mackey stepped over the line last week when she asked a detective at the prelimi nary hearing whether injuries to the 19-year-old woman were “con sistent with a person who had sex with three different men in three days.” That question prompted Judge Frederick Gannett to end the hearing, which was to resume Wednesday. The hearing will de termine whether the NBA super star will stand trial on a sexual assault charge. Prosecutors said the question was a “deliberate and calculated” attempt to elicit testimony on ev ^^ence irrelevant so early in the SBise and came even though “at torneys are expected to proceed in an ethical manner.” “What was even more unex pected was her conscious mis representation of the evidence in order to smear the victim pub licly,” prosecutor Ingrid Bakke wrote. “The bell cannot be un rung. It will be difficult enough to overcome Ms. Mackey’s mis statement of the facts.” Mackey’s voicemail said she would not return calls from reporters. Prosecutors want Gannett to hold discussions about the ac cuser’s sexual history in private, if he determines the evidence is relevant. Bakke said prosecutors be lieve that sort of evidence is pro tected by Colorado’s rape shield law, which bars the use of an al leged victim’s sexual history in rape cases with few exceptions. Attorney Tom Kelley, who rep resents several media organiza tions including The Associated Press, said he will fight the pros ecution’s request for a closed hearing. “It’s not as though a lot of sen sitive material has not been pre sented to the public already, it just happens to be unfavorable to Kobe Bryant,” Kelley said. “I don’t think the process ought to be about presenting unfavorable information about only one side.” Kelley said he would meet with Gannett and attorneys from both sides before the preliminary hearing resumes. Bryant’s attor neys have already asked the judge to close all or part of the hearing. The hearing began last week with sheriffs Detective Doug Winters describing the alleged as sault in graphic detail. He said the woman was flattered by at tention from Bryant and agreed to his request to come to his room late one night. After chatting for a while, they began kissing consensually, but she said no after Bryant grabbed her around the neck, leaned her over a chair and lifted her skirt, according to the testimony. She said no again after Bryant pulled down her underwear before rap ing her, Winters testified he was told by the accuser. It was Mackey’s cross-exami nation of Winters that prompted the judge to end the hearing. Legal experts said Gannett might give Mackey a chance be hind closed doors to provide in formation to back up her sug gestion that the woman had oth er sexual partners before her June 30 encounter with Bryant. Mackey and defense attorney Hal Haddon also might want to call their own witnesses, which is unusual in preliminary hear ings. “The reason we have a prelim inary hearing after all is to give the defense a chance to say, ‘This case should not even go to trial, it’s so weak,”’ said Christopher Mueller, a professor at the University of Colorado law school. Bryant, free on $25,000 bond, must return to Eagle for the hear ing. The 25-year-old Los Angeles Lakers’ guard faces up to life in prison if convicted of the sexual assault charge against him. He has said he and the wom an had consensual sex while he stayed at the mountain re sort in Edwards where she worked. The judge has said he will not rule at the close of the hearing on whether the case should go to tri al. He plans to issue a written de cision later. I NASCAR Hobbled Darlington retains sponsorship BY PETE IACOBELLI TUB ASSOCIATKJ) PRK88 Apparently, the Carolina Dodge Dealers Association isn’t worried about Darlington Raceway’s future in NASCAR. The group, which has spon sored the past three spring races at Darlington, signed a five-year agreement as title sponsor for the track’s March event, Darlington Raceway president Andrew Gurtis said. “We are blessed with great sponsors,” Gurtis said. “We’re honored to have them.” The deal, announced Tuesday, continues a roller coaster ride of a year for “The Track Too Tough To Tame.” The 53-year-old track lost its signature Labor Day week end for the Southern 500 to California Speedway next sea son. But it keeps its two race dates, moving its second one to Nov. 14,2004. x ne tracK openea its ex panded museum in July. A month later came the first sell out at the Southern 500 since adding the Pearson Tower in 1998. And while ticket sales and turnout remain a yearly ques tion in the race-saturated Carolinas—especially for the spring event — workers pour concrete and raise light poles on a multimillion dollar pro ject to bring night racing to the circuit’s oldest super speedway. “This has been without a doubt, a watershed year for Darlington,” Gurtis said. That doesn’t even take the this year’s races into account. The Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 was won by Ricky Craven over Kurt Busch in the closest finish — .002 of a second — since NASCAR be gan using electronic timing in 1993. “There’s a great deal that’s out of the control of our staff” Gurtis said. “Buy we hit all the marks we could in 2003.” The Carolina Dodge Dealers’ backing la^ts through 2008. Gurtis says the agreement contains contin gency language if something happens to alter Darlington’s spring event. “We’re all adults and we know the facts as they exist to day with regard to Darlington’s position,” Gurtis said. “They understand and are comfort able that we would work with them if something happens. ” Jeff Egolf, president of the Carolina Dodge Dealers Association, said he couldn’t imagine a better track to as sociate with than Darlington. “They understand totally what our marketing objec tives are in the Carolinas, and you’ll never find a better . group of professionals to work with,” he said. It’s Gurtis’ job to make sure the deal runs its course. Darlington, one of NASCAR’s smallest tracks with less than 60,1)00 seats, won’t ever match attendance figures at many other NASCAR venues. However, Gurtis says he and the staff will concentrate on fill ing all available seats. Selling out the Southern 500 was a strong statement to keep the Nextel Cup series at Darlington for two races each year. Football CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 heartbreaker to Tennessee, Holtz said this LSU game poses another hurdle to the Gamecocks, since other teams haven’t been known to make a great deal of mistakes whenfacing Carolina. “The main thing that we have to understand is that people will play a perfect game,” Holtz said. “I can’t remember the last time a team made many mistakes against-us when we were an underdog. You have to go all the way back to Georgia when Quincy Carter threw five interceptions against us.” “We aren’t going to go in there an'd play a perfect game but what we can go in there and make some things happen. It’s important the we go in there with the proper atti tude towards this team, very simi lar to the one we had at Tennessee.” And after watching the film on LSU’s game against Florida, he doesn’t see them making the same mistakes so his team must not make its own. “We aren’t going to go in there and play a perfect game but what we can go in there and make some things happen,” Holtz said “It’s important the we go in there with attitude like Tennessee.” Comments on this story?E— mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Interested in taking The Gamecock’s Sports Challenge? If you can boat 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: Texas Tech at 23 Oklahoma St. 5 Southern Cal. at Notre Dame 15 Michigan St. at 25 Minnesota Florida at 11 Arkansas 13 Perdue at 14 Wisconsin Alabama at Ole Miss 9 Iowa at 8 Ohio St. Clemson at N.C. State Rankings are from 24 Missouri at 1 Oklahoma 10 LSU at USC The Associated Press. ♦ FOR TIE-BREAKING PURPOSES, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR SCORE FOR THE LSU-USC GAME. AND DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME! BRIEFLY ^/omen’s soccer loses two on road The USC women’s soccer team (8-5-2,1-2-1 SEC) took its eight-game unbeaten streak on the road, where the Gamecocks received a rough welcome. Carolina lost both of its road games, the first to Georgia (9-5, 2-2 SEC) 2-1 on Friday and then to Tennessee (9-4, 3-1 SEC) 3-2 on Sunday. USC only made four shots against Georgia, yielding to the tough Bulldog defense. Georgia, on the other hand, got off ll shots, with forward Jessica Winton accounting for three. «nton also scored the game ming goal in the 55th minute. The Gamecocks managed to get seven shots against Tennessee, but USC’s shot to tal was dwarfed by Tennessee’s total of 20. Lady Vol midfielder Ali Christoph had six shots alone, along with one goal. Midfielder Sue Flamini scored the game-winning goal at the 85th minute, handing Carolina its fifth loss on the season. USC looks for a couple of wins as the team returns home to play Vanderbilt on Friday at 7 p.m. and Kentucky on Sunday at lp.m. Swim teams take first meet of year J^kBoth the USC men’s and ^Hlmen’s swimming teams won their first meet of the sea son at the College of Charleston on Saturday. The women’s team beat the Cougars 124-99 while the men’s team won 117-92. Junior Carolynn McHugh won two events for Carolina, taking first place in the 200-me ter individual medley and the 100-meter freestyle. Freshman Kaelon May won the 800-meter freestyle, junior Heather Skaggs took the 200-meter freestyle, senior Ashleigh Bastak finished first in the 50 meter freestyle, while freshman Meredith Ruka won the 200-me ter butterfly and senior Bronwyn Dedekind won the 200-meter backstroke. Also, three female divers, ju nior Lauren King, senior Holly Hodges and freshman Lyndsey Havens qualified for the NCAA Zones Competition. The Carolina men’s team also won several races. Senior Tamas Szucs won both the 200-meter freestyle and the 400-meter freestyle. Sophomore Tim Farrington won the 800-meter freestyle, sophomore Reid Duff took the 100-meter freestyle, senior Ed Murphy finished first in the 50 meter freestyle, senior Istvan Bathazi won the 200-meter indi vidual medley and Tamas Bathazi nabbed the top spot in the 200-meter butterfly. Men’s divers junior Andy Bradley, ju nior Dean Emmerton and sopho more Ian Balman all qualified for the NCAA Zones Competition. USC next competes at Clemson on Friday at 5 p.m. Volleyball loses its second SEC match The USC volleyball team (10-8, 4-2 SEC) lost its second confer ence game on the road at Tennessee on Friday. The Lady Volunteers (14-4,4-2 SEC) lost the first game to Carolina, but won the second game close and then did not look back. The Gamecocks ended up dropping the last two games by margins of 11 and 12 points, re spectively. Even with the loss, four Carolina players had double-dig it kill totals. Outside hitter Shonda Cole lead the team with 13 kills, while right-side hitter Lynae Vanden Hull had 12. Middle blockers Lauren Ford and Niece Curry had 10 kills apiece. Carolina might not have won the first game if it had not been for an 8-2 run that tied the game at 11-11 early on. A service ace by outside hitter Iris Santos sealed up the Gamecocks’ only winning game on the night. Errors dogged USC in the sec ond game, leaving the door open for a Tennessee win. 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