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 University of South Carolina 's varsity sports teams are known as the  Gamecocks . This unique moniker is held in honor of Thomas Sumter, a Revolutionary War hero from South Carolina who was nicknamed the  Carolina Gamecock  after British General Banastre Tarleton said Sumter fought like a gamecock..