By MONTE DUTTON Joel Dragoo (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. I suppose folks must know, but it just hasn’t spread around their consciousness yet. They’re preoccupied. PC baseball is a game out of first place in the Big South Conference. Yeah. Did you hear me? What? Click here. PC. It’s a game out of first …
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County Signs: Beat Catawba Ridge … check
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. PROLOGUE Sometimes it rains. Sometimes it doesn’t. I like it better when Mother Nature makes up her mind. I’ve watched the weather. Laurens and Clinton have crucial high-school baseball games Friday night. The Raiders are (or by the time you read this, maybe were) undefeated in the …
County Signs: Red Devils stay alive
By MONTE DUTTON Camden Finley connects. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The latest of life’s ironies occurred to me Thursday morning as I augmented, updated, corrected and reposted Wednesday’s crop. NIL (name, image and likeness) provides college athletes monetary compensation, yet the world “nil” means nothing. Thus could the athlete at an unmonied institution say, …
County Signs: Raiders enjoy Coker cola in ninth
By MONTE DUTTON Coleman Coker drove in the winning run. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I was up until the wee hours, which are not that wee for me, failing to get Tuesday night’s results posted. Folks have more wi-fi than wife problems nowadays. Oh, wait. I don’t have a wife. It could be that …
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County Signs: A mostly bleak night on the diamonds
By MONTE DUTTON Zane McLendon has that sinking feeling. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. A Furman release revealed that the Paladins have signed two “rising juniors.” I thought, Thank God, they aren’t falling juniors. Yes, I know, “rising” refers to someone in the next class. It’s spring, and those two promising athletes are sophomores now, …
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Furmanology: Just call the latest Paladin Smitty
By MONTE DUTTON (File photo) Click here. I went through college in a period of little unrest. I read about the 1960s and watched it all on TV as a boy, but the biggest threat to the Furman campus in the late 1970s and early 1980s was the invasion of Citadel cadets the night before …
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County Signs: Raiders conquer Northwestern territory
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Without question, a fine Laurens baseball team is the prime mover here, but as I drove to LDHS on Monday, it occurred to me that the Raiders have won every game I’ve attended to date. The biggest factor is that Laurens (21-6) has won most of its …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: PC still in thick of baseball hunt
By MONTE DUTTON Jack Gorman (1) congratulates Eli Lazio after a Saturday home run. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. On Sunday night, I watched my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, play for the first time this season. Anyone who picked the Red Sox, who have won more World Series than anyone else in …
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Furmanology: Paladins’ young men go west
By MONTE DUTTON Jacob Johanning (Furman photo) Click here. Uniforms used to be so much easier to understand. I thought about this when I was watching the Philadelphia 76ers play the New York Knicks, and both team were wearing uniforms I really liked, only the Knicks were wearing white and the Sixers were wearing blue, …
Blue Hose Blurbs: Spartans even series with 5-3 win
By MONTE DUTTON Eli Lazio just speared a pop off his shoestrings. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I don’t know anything about new Carolina Panthers head coach Dave Canales – I only recently learned what he looks like – but I’ve noticed from his remarks on the NFL draft that he is a major-league “you-knower.” …
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