South Carolina Receiver Suspended Indefinitely

South Carolina wide receiver Andrea Gause was suspended indefinitely from the team after being arrested for allegedly shoving a woman in a dorm room.

Gause was first suspended Friday for violating team rules. He did not travel to Tennessee for Saturday’s 17-10 loss to the Volunteers.

South Carolina spokesman Kerry Tharp said Gause, a freshman, was arrested Tuesday night and released on bond. Coach Lou Holtz said he did not expect to have Gause back this week when the Gamecocks play Wofford.

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Louisiana State will drop teams such as Utah State and Idaho from future football schedules so it can face one Louisiana-based Division I-A opponent every year for the next eight years.

“If the $400,000 for the game doesn’t go to Troy State, San Jose or somewhere else and stays in Louisiana instead, I like that,” LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman said. “I think this will be good for other state schools and good for us.”

LSU will play Tulane, Louisiana Tech, Louisiana-Lafayette and Louisiana-Monroe on a rotating basis. Next year’s Louisiana-Lafayette game, scheduled for Oct. 5 in Tiger Stadium, will begin the rotation.

“It’s in everybody’s best interest to play in-state schools,” Bertman said. “That’s what flagship universities do, and we’re committed to playing one Division I-A school from Louisiana for at least the next eight years.”

Although Coach Nick Saban and school officials support the plan, Bertman acknowledged some LSU fans are opposed to scheduling in-state schools, fearing a loss might hurt recruiting.

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Fordham and Columbia will make up the game postponed by the terrorist attacks in a rare appearance on Thanksgiving Day.

The Rams and the Lions will meet at Fordham’s campus in the Bronx on Nov. 22. Columbia has played only one other Thanksgiving game in the last 72 years, while Fordham hasn’t had a game on the holiday since 1936.

Their meeting this season originally was scheduled for Sept. 15, and was postponed in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center four days earlier.