Tushawan Richardson draws lots of attention. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges An odd boys’ basketball game broke out at Clinton High School on Tuesday evening, where Southside knocked the Region 4-3A champion Red Devils out of the playoffs. The game was frantically and inefficiently played. Both teams played hard but sometimes to cross purposes. At the …
Paladins take ’em one at a time, as if there were any other way
By MONTE DUTTON Furman must keep its focus versus VMI. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ The 2022-23 Furman basketball season was more predictable than this one. It was a season of historic greatness, seldom rivaled in the school’s annals. Not that a 28-8 record, Southern Conference championship and NCAA Tournament victory were without perilous moments. This …
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Furman women tame Catamounts late
(Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ A three-point play in the final minute led Furman to a 58-53 victory over Western Carolina and an end to a three-game losing skein. The game, originally scheduled for Saturday afternoon, was played instead on Sunday at Timmons Arena. Session's fast break layup, assisted by Tate Walters off a steal by Sydney …
Prep hoops teams taking games to next level
(Monte Dutton photo) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges As apt a description of my life as I’ve heard are the words of the songwriter Steven Fromholz: Me and my friends are getting long in the tooth / From three or four decades of seeking the truth / Trying to recover from a misspent youth / And gradually giving in …
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‘T’was a fine Saturday for the Blue Hose
Marquis Barnett (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges It was Letter Winners Day on Saturday at Templeton Center. Presbyterian College ought to hand out more letters. The Blue Hose returned a few favors left in Radford, Va., on Jan. 27, when the Highlanders swept a women/men basketball doubleheader. The land in Clinton is lower. Quinton Ferrell’s men’s …
Pegues, Paladins pull one out in Johnson City
J.P. Pegues (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – The air in Freedom Hall was fraught with desperation as Furman fought to end a slump and East Tennessee State sought to keep a Southern Conference men’s basketball streak going. Junior J.P. Pegues scored seven of Furman’s final nine points, including four free throws in the …
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Here comes the Super Bowl, ready or not!
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Presbyterian College is going to be playing basketball in a little while. I vowed, having experienced what happens when one insists on writing about ballgames when one is sick, I was not going out to ballgames again until this shingles has run its course. Yet every day I think …
PC men, women both at home
Samage Teel (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants The Super Bowl is Sunday. Nothing else matters much … on Sunday. I’ve seen every Super Bowl on TV. The first one was when I was eight. For most of two decades, I watched it while I was at Daytona Beach for the 500. The closest was when the …
Furman mourns lost of Stanfield, a champion gone too soon
Bryce Stanfield (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ I was at a local hangout, and a friend asked, “How’s that Furman football player doing?” I told him Bryce Stanfield was apparently in bad shape, that I was praying for him and that he was a great guy. My friend, who is a Georgia fan, said, “I figured he …
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Unbeknownst to Blue Hose, they won one for Mojo
Mojo Nixon's head still bobbling at 6:08. (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Oh, what a night it must have been at Templeton Center. It may have been the best night of the season for Presbyterian men’s basketball, at the very least since the season opener at Vanderbilt, and this was in the Big South. The SEC …
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Nightrider's Lament 