Your Mother Slept With Wilt Chamberlain

Yesterday was my birthday. I hate it. I rarely acknowledge it but resistance is futile, I’m getting older. I need to accept that. Like every birthday I think back to the days of my youth. Thinking of all the good times I’ve had. Even though I don’t do the types of things that I did in my youth such as sleep around, drink and stay gone for days on end, it’s tempting to try and relive those days of blissful joy.

Apparently two former Gamecocks attempted to relive their college days recently. Judging by the outcome maybe I should be thankful I’m older and wiser, then again I never sold drugs, carried weapons illegally or ride around with open bottles of vodka either.

First on the list is former USC basketball standout Carlos Powell. Powell is the Gamecocks’ sixth all-time leading scorer. He scored 1,541 career points at USC from 2001-2005 and averaged 11.7 points a game for his career. He played in 132 games, third most in school history behind former teammates Brandon Wallace and Tre’ Kelley.

The 6-foot-7 Powell led the Gamecocks in scoring three consecutive seasons, and was their leading rebounder two of those years.

Powell with current USC basketball player Sam Muldrow who is also his cousin, was stopped by the Florence Po Po because of all things, the taillights on Powells’ Chevrolet Caprice were not illuminating. Since the Gamecock football team seems to be the only male players arrested Powell must have been “training” Muldrow on what it means to be a Cock.

Since these are Gamecocks of course you already know the officer noticed a strong odor of the sweet sticky weed that only Cocks can get. Surprisingly though Powell told “the man” that someone recently had been smoking pot in the car but there was no pot in the vehicle.

What “the man” found was a half-full bottle of Grey Goose vodka and a gun under the passenger seat instead. Go Cocks!!!

Powell was arrested and jailed on gun and alcohol charges in his Florence hometown which was a new experience for him since he was so familiar with the Richland County Detention Center or as the USC players call it, the Cocky Athletic Dorms.

Oddly though cousin Muldrow wasn’t charged even though he was the one driving the car, after all Powell is rather useless but Muldrow is the future of USC, if he can stay sober and not kill anyone.

This is another black eye for the USC basketball program since Darrin Horn has taken the coaching reigns. Last week Devan Downey the only player with any talent, was arrested on charges of simple assault.

Normally I would have written a post dedicated to Downeys’ arrest but a USC Athlete getting arrested…not exactly news any more.

To make matters worse for Coach “I Was Lucky To Even Make the Sweet 16 so Toot My” Horn guard Trevor Deloach, who was redshirted this past season, is transferring.

“We expressed to Trevor that he had a scholarship at the University of South Carolina, but he felt it was in his best interests to pursue other opportunities,” Horn said in a statement.

“We wish him the best in his future endeavors.”

Apparently Deloach has some character left or he thinks Coach Horn is a prick.

Next up on the reliving the Cock youth brigade is Troy Hambrick.

Hambrick played three seasons at South Carolina. As a freshman in 1996, Hambrick relieved Duce Staley vs. Clemson long enough to rush for 135 yards and two scores in a USC victory.

He even made it to the NFL.

Hambrick’s NFL career spanned five seasons. His best year was 2003 when he rushed for 972 yards and five touchdowns for Dallas.

Now he’s enjoying the lovely Tampa area for say…five years.

Hambrick pleaded guilty to one count of distributing 50 grams or more of crack cocaine.

Hambrick sold the drugs in 2007 to a confidential informant near his home in Lacoochee, which about 40 miles north of Tampa.

As much experience he has leaning about doing, stashing & selling drugs he obtained at USC, one would think he would know what a sting is…then again once a Cock always a Cock.