By MONTE DUTTON Click here. As I sat in the audience at Thursday’s meeting of the Laurens County Touchdown Club, munching on a Groucho’s sub, I thought about the speakers whom I’ve known the longest. I narrowed it down to three: Robbie Caldwell, Phil Kornblut and Pete Yanity. Pete Yanity Caldwell, who is best known …
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Pierce’s return signals high hopes for PC basketball
Jonah Pierce (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The backdrop of Presbyterian College’s men’s basketball season is the exhibition games that opened the season … unofficially. The Blue Hose have played the devil and then the deep, blue sea. Most of the games this season are going to be somewhere in between. “’I’m very excited,” said …
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Perfection is elusive, but the dream lingers
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. After seven straight football victories, Presbyterian College fell, 35-19, in Dayton, Ohio, last Saturday. The game started at noon, so I watched it on my laptop while sitting in the Paladin Stadium press box. On Monday, PC head coach Steve Englehart said, “It wasn’t that we played …
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The exhibition was a fleeting thing, but the venue is here to stay
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It was a tiring weekend. I’m glad I’m tired. On Friday, I drove to Blacksburg for a high-school football game in which there was no doubt which team, Clinton, was going to win. It was a fair jump up the interstate for 48-7. I got back home, …
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Dins down Dogs with 2nd-half surge, 24-14
By MONTE DUTTON Jayquan Smith (28) scored two TDs (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The Citadel is coming! The Citadel is coming! The Citadel must be stopped. It’s easy to say it’s just another football game. It’s easy to say, oh, the rival is Wofford now. Well, Wofford won last week. When Furman plays The …
PC streak ends at Dayton, 35-19
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The magic took a Saturday off in Dayton, Ohio, where the Flyers stopped Presbyterian in a variety of ways. The University of Dayton (6-2, 4-1 PFL) stopped the Blue Hose’ seven-game win streak this season, 11-game stretch dating back to last and rampage through the Pioneer Football …
Red Devils wreck Wildcats, 48-7
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. BLACKSBURG -- Clinton’s 48-7 victory on Friday night was impressive but not as explosive as the previous week’s 56-14 win at home against Landrum. Nitro glycerine is not as explosive as the Landrum game. Five hundred thirty-three yards rushing, in a game in which the clock ran …
A win over The Citadel would fix a lot
By MONTE DUTTON Gavin Hall rushed for 101 yards against East Tennessee State (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. As Furman prepares for homecoming and the annual invasion of The Citadel, it would be helpful to develop some of that old-fashioned distaste for the combatants of Charleston. Forty years ago, The Citadel was the last game …
PC’s undefeated record comes with a price
By MONTE DUTTON Boyce Bankhead (22) leads the Blue Hose in tackles (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For Presbyterian College football, the pressure never lets up. For every Saturday that the Blue Hose win a game, the need for another multiplies. Seven weeks in, Presbyterian still has its perfect season intact. The Blue Hose goal …
Red Devils are in Zoom mode
By MONTE DUTTON Red Devil offense is getting better with every game (Monte Dutton photos). Corey Fountain and his Clinton High School football staff have been working on a building. It’s not much different from the old gospel, bluegrass tune penned by A.P Carter. I’m working on a building / I’m working on a building …
Nightrider's Lament 