1 Get a medical checkup if you snore. 2  Snoring is a symptom of sleep apnea, the common sleep disorder that affects 10 to 20 million Americans and hikes the risk of high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, and heart attack. 3  Walk one hour a day.
Cocky (mascot) Cocky is the costumed mascot of the University of South Carolina athletics teams. He represents a cartoon version of a gamecock (a fighting rooster). The current version of Cocky made his debut, by Robert Lane, at the Homecoming game of 1980.
The U.S. Mint's bicentennial commemorative quarter for South Carolina features an outline of the state, the state bird (Carolina wren), state tree (sabal palmetto), state flower (yellow jessamine), and the state's nickname: The Palmetto State. South Carolina became the 8th state in 1788.