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.
Sponsored Topics. South Carolina earned the nickname the Palmetto State as a symbol of strength and courage. During the Revolutionary War, colonial soldiers used miniature palm trees called palmettos to build a fortress on Sullivan Island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor.