By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn (10) fakes to Javen Cook (3) as Zy Butler looks for someone to block (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. A team begins its season and, despite the best of intentions, isn’t as good as expected. It’s a nightmarish realization for coaches. The atmosphere accelerates. Already obsessed with preparing for each …
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The little team that can
By MONTE DUTTON Dominic Kibby (PC photo) Click here. What is the anatomy of an upset? What is the anatomy of two? How has Presbyterian College, which doesn’t award football scholarships, managed to begin the season with consecutive victories over Mercer and Furman, both of which do? Steve Englehart says he’s just an old-fashioned kind …
Blue Hose come off deck to upset Furman, 39-38, in OT
Nathan Levicki caught the game-winner (PC photo). Click here. Presbyterian College makes football scholarships look like a luxury item. Anybody can win with scholarships. It takes a team to win without them. What the Blue Hose of fourth-year head coach Steve Englehart have done in the first two weeks of the season is ridiculous. If …
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Good times, great oldies, the Devils and the deep blue sea
By MONTE DUTTON Keith Richardson won six state championships and 239 games as Clinton head coach (photo courtesy John Clayton). Click here. Many times I have expressed the opinion that my life is seldom mediocre. Either everything goes right, or everything goes wrong. That’s not the way life is. It’s just the way it seems. …
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Newberry takes a belt from Clinton, 41-12
By MONTE DUTTON B.J. Jones takes on Clinton defenders Maison Tinsley (13), Jaydon Glenn (1) and Noah Garrett (12) (photo courtesy John Clayton). Click here. It would be a gross exaggeration to claim that Newberry’s Kenton Caldwell defeated Clinton by himself. The senior gave the Red Devils what they seldom ever get: Hell. The Bulldogs …
Blue Hose to visit Furman loaded with Bears
Malaki Dobbins pressures W&M's Tyler Hughes (Furman photo). Click here. No sooner had the Furman Paladins passed their initial football test with a 23-21 victory over William & Mary, some surprising news arrived on Saturday night from Macon, Ga. Presbyterian College, a non-scholarship program from Clinton, upended Mercer, the reigning Southern Conference champion, by a …
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A sense of deja vu
By MONTE DUTTON Jaydon Glenn is the latest Player of the Week (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Whoever heard of playing the three biggest rivals in the first three football games? Does Alabama open with Auburn, Tennessee and Ole Miss? Florida with FSU, Miami and Georgia? The Philadelphia Eagles with the Ravens, Bills and Chiefs? …
PC tries to conjure up more magic at Furman
By MONTE DUTTON Dalton Epps (PC photo) Click here. Furman University and Presbyterian College have a mild little rivalry. They’re less than an hour away from each other, and it seems as if the bigger the sport, they less they play. In short, they play only occasionally in football and basketball, and they never play …
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Paladins take down Tribe as Blue Hose step up
By MONTE DUTTON Ian Williams drilled three field goals (Furman photo). Click here. Anything doesn’t often happen, but it certainly can. I spent Friday and Saturday surprised in various degrees. I expected Clinton to win the Laurens County championship in high-school football, but not 50-0 over Laurens. I expected Furman to start the season with …
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Big Red dominates Raiders, 50-0
By MONTE DUTTON Angelo Cromer avoids Laurens' Elijah Cheeks (10) (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Clinton looked really good in Friday night’s 50-0 victory over Laurens. Laurens (0-2) also looked really bad, but the two often go hand in hand. The Red Devils very nearly erased from memory their loss to Woodruff on opening night. …
Nightrider's Lament 