Furmanology: It takes a village to raise a team

By MONTE DUTTON Carson Jones is one of 14 Paladins who have started (Furman photo). Click here. What challenges lie ahead. Furman’s Southern Conference champion football program has 14 players who have started, at least by recent calculations. Players who have started are not the same as returning starters. Duplicating the 10-3 records of the …

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County Signs: ‘In the summertime, when the weather is hot …’

By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s great to have some time to write songs and edit fiction, but gosh, it feels good to get out in the heat and snap photos of cute kids tossing the old pigskins around. It’s almost impossible to take bad photos of kids. They were scattered around …

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County Signs: ‘Just racin’ (for a while) in the rain …’

By MONTE DUTTON Friday night lights (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I probably would not have watched the NASCAR Xfinity Series race from New Hampshire. I discovered the Sci Aps 200 was starting on rain tires, which had never been used on an oval. The rain was clearing out. The teams only ran treaded tires …

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County Signs: Post 56 encounters sparse resistance

By MONTE DUTTON Tanner Finley was untouchable for three innings. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It was great to get out. After the usual – writing, assembling, choosing photos, playing guitar, sipping coffee and half paying attention to what’s on the tube – I went off whistle-stopping late Thursday afternoon. First was watching the Junior …

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County Signs: Saying bye to the Say Hey Kid

By MONTE DUTTON Clinton Family YMCA executive director Harold Nichols surrounded by champions (YMCA photos) Click here. I’ve been thinking about this since I heard the news of Willie Howard Mays’ death on Tuesday night. I think three athletes have made me cry. On the way from Fenway Park back to New Hampshire on a …

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