Overtime

Prep Sports

Practices cancelled in Columbia County

All games and practices for the Columbia County Recreation Department have been cancelled for today due to inclement weather.

College Basketball

Pacers reschedule today's matchups

In Morrow, Ga., USC Ai¤ken's men's and women's doubleheader, scheduled for today at Clayton State has been moved to Sunday at 2 and 4 p.m.

The decision to move the game was made by Clayton State Athletic Department officials, due to the winter storm warning that has been issued for much of the state of Georgia.

High School Basketball

Boy collapses, dies after playing game

In Sumter, S.C., a 16-year-old basketball player from Crestwood High School collapsed and died after a game Thursday night, a school district official said.

The boy, a sophomore, had played for fewer than five minutes near the end of the game, said Sumter District 2 spokeswoman Mary Sheridan.

"The game was over," she said. "The team had gone to the locker room. He was in the middle of changing his clothes... and he collapsed."

Coaches tried to resuscitate the player, but he was pronounced dead at a Sumter hospital, Sheridan said. Sumter County Coroner Verna Moore had not identified the boy. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday.

Colleges

Braves must study logo, nickname

In Pembroke, N.C., the NCAA asked the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a school founded to educate Native Amer¤icans, to study the use of its Amer¤ican Indian logo and Braves nickname.

The university must submit a report to the governing body by May 1. In 2002, UNCP was among 31 schools identified by an NCAA committee as having mascots or logos that could be considered controversial.

UNCP used an American Indian mascot until 1991, when former chancellor Joseph Oxendine banned its use and replaced it with a red-tailed hawk. The school logo shows an Indian with a hawk sitting on his shoulder. The school has used the "Braves" nickname since the 1940s.

"It is a little bit frustrating for us," UNCP athletic director Dan Kenney told The Fayetteville Observer. "In 2003, we thought we should have been pulled out of this process because of our uniqueness. But they did not. If the community ever tells us this is not the link that they want to our past, we will pull it. I feel that the community is comfortable with it."

The university was established as the Croatan Normal School in 1887 to educate American Indians, and they still make up more than 20 percent of the student body.

Horse Racing

Dogwood Stable's best will see action

Aiken-based Dogwood Stable will see a number of its top horses in action over the next two weekends.

Limehouse, which placed fourth in last year's Kentucky Derby, will run in the $1 million Sunshine Millions Classic at 1e miles today at Gulfstream Park in Florida.

Limehouse is coming off a second-place finish in the Mr. Prospector Handicap on Jan. 8. John Velazquez will be in the saddle this weekend on Limehouse.

"We are coming up on an unusually intense period of Dogwood stakes runners," Dogwood president Cot Campbell said.

Also this weekend, Dogwood will send Colonial Bay to the track in the Grade 3 Mac Diarmida. The Sunday race at Gulfstream will cover 1r miles. Cornelio Velasquez will ride Colonial Bay for Dogwood.

On Feb. 5, Dogwood will have two of its Triple Crown candidates in action at Gulfstream Park. Drum Major will go in the $150,000 Holy Bull Stakes, which covers 1e miles, and Vicarage will compete in the Grade 2 Hutcheson Stakes over 7½ furlongs.