"Why do they [write] for their money? Why do they [work] for short pay? They ain't getting nowhere and they're losing their share. They must have gone crazy back there." — Michael Burton (paraphrased)
Clark Akers (Furman photo) Click here. Furman is hustling and bustling as best it can without a baseball team. That’s old news, of course, but hope springs. The longest shot of the month is in Clinton, where the Presbyterian College women’s basketball team won the Big South tournament and is now preparing for an NCAA …
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(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Who knew the last of the basketball would be at Presbyterian College? The Blue Hose women’s basketball team is playing Sacred Heart of Fairfield, Conn., in the NCAA Tournament’s play-in game. PC, the fifth seed in the Big South, swept through the tournament. The Pioneers of the not usually pioneerish …
Continue reading County Signs: Basketball miraculously lives
Mara Neira (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. In the small town of Clinton, some folks are aghast that the local college has such a tough path to the women’s basketball championship. Why must the Blue Hose have to be in a play-in? And, if they manage to defeat Sacred Heart, next is the No. 1 …
Continue reading County Signs: Hose get ready for taste of bigs
It's a big ticket PC punched. (PC photo) Click here. Whatever happened to slow-pitch softball? The dirtiest game I ever played in was church softball. Undoubtedly, it gradually died out, but seems sudden to me. I went off to write about NASCAR … and it was gone. Like textile baseball before it. Whatever happened to …
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Click here. I lost a buddy and a traveling companion when Jimmy Mac died on Friday the 15th, which must be bad luck in March this year, no doubt a result of Leap Year. I feared for his health in the back of my mind. Suppressed it, a shrink might …
By MONTE DUTTON Eels hover above Paris Mountain. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I thought well, gee whiz, why not just start the season? Saturday was the first one in the autumn when it’s not too hot. Except it was March 16. Fluffy clouds slowly crossed the sky, northeast, as if they constituted an armed …
Owen Pridgen is on a tear. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Baseball outlasted the weather – at least at Laurens District High School and Presbyterian College -- on Friday as the skies cleared and home-plate umpires yelled, “Play ball!” The Raiders, more notably, did. A band of Revolutionaries, once known as the Colonials, descended upon …
Continue reading County Signs: Raiders sweep Eagles, Hose drop opener
Colton Hinton (Furman photo) Click here. I’m excited to see what the Paladins are cooking up. Many news slots have come open from last fall’s 10-3 season and a last-second loss in the FCS third round. To wit: Kickoff for the Purple-White spring game is set for 1 p.m. Saturday at Paladin Stadium The game, …
Continue reading Furmanology: Rare outbreaks of football are okay in spring
Laurens Academy's Olivia Huck (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. When I get up in the morning, brew some coffee while I’m taking some meds, turn on the TV and see what awful happened last night, my set (remember when a TV was a set?) recommends what I want to see. Then I commence translating sports …
Carly Edwards (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The soft rivalry between Clinton and Laurens -- I always do it alphabetically except when it refers to the site, at which time it is Clinton-Laurens in Laurens and Laurens-Clinton in Clinton, and never the twain shall meet – in softball was a rootin,’ tootin’ dandy on Thursday …
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