By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) Click here. The NFL could hardly have begun its season better. The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Baltimore Ravens by the margin of, oh, maybe, a quarter of an inch, and also 27-20. On the last play of the game, Lamar Jackson hit Isaiah Likely in the back of the end …
County Signs: Englehart explains how to pull a rope
By MONTE DUTTON Steve Englehart (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Steve Englehart is a familiar face at the Laurens County Touchdown and throughout the community. The head coach at Presbyterian has a big job. Elsewhere, Englehart will do what he can. He is a stand-up guy right down to the way he stands up. Englehart …
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Furmanology: Dins come marching home again
(Elena Davidson photo) Click here. A football team – quite possibly, many other kinds of teams, as well – is formed early in the season. It’s complicated, but what’s simple is that, in every game, both teams try, and adversity shapes a team’s character. Mississippi, in beating Furman, 76-0, as quickly as possible, provided the …
Furmanology: Learn from mistakes and move on
By MONTE DUTTON For Clay Hendrix, there's no place like home (Furman photo). Click here. Furman fans were not alone. The first full weekend of college-football brought little to savor for Palmetto State partisans. What could be worse than Ole Miss pounding the Paladins, 76-0? Oh, Furman fans are downtrodden, but the Paladins were playing …
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County Signs: Devils hope to tighten grip on Belt
By MONTE DUTTON The Battle for the Belt went Clinton's way last year (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton is playing its third rivalry in as many weeks. Seriously. This Friday’s game is at Newberry, which, like Woodruff and Laurens, has been lining up in anger opposite the Red Devils for more than a century. …
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County Signs: How fleet is the Fleet when it flies?
By MONTE DUTTON Steve Englehart (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. What do you do? You shake hands, pick up the check and get back to work on games you can actually win. Mystery surrounds the Presbyterian Blue Hose in the aftermath of last Thursday night’s 63-10 shellacking at Mercer. The Bears won an FCS playoff …
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Darlington seldom disappoints
By MONTE DUTTON (AI generated) Click here. It occurred to me that two of my favorite things are the Clinton-Laurens football game and the Southern 500 stock car race. One was Friday night and the other was Sunday night. Not that the week was perfection. Furman and Presbyterian lost by 76 and 53 points, respectively. …
Furmanology: It wasn’t all bad
By MONTE DUTTON Home never looked more welcome (Furman photo). Click here. I watched three football games, two of them, fortunately, on TV. Mercer crunched Presbyterian, 63-10, on Thursday. Clinton High raced past Laurens, 35-8, on Friday. Ole Miss destroyed Furman, 76-0, on Saturday. The combined scores were 174-18. For a Furman grad, seldom has …
Rebels swamp outmanned Paladins, 76-0
Dylan Chiedo (Furman photo) Click here. OXFORD, Miss. – Oh, 50 years ago or thereabouts, Winn-Dixie distributed cards for entries in a TV show of taped horse races. If No. 3 won and it was on your card, you won. It was the Draft Kings of its day. The show was called Let’s Go to …
The fire burns both ways
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I think Aug. 30 might end up being my favorite night of the year. It’s not just this year’s game for the Laurens County championship. It’s the game. It’s the atmosphere. It’s standing down on the field, trying both to take photos and pay attention to what’s …
Nightrider's Lament 