"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)
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. It’s Thanksgiving, so, naturally, I’m writing about Waffle House.Believe it or not, and defying all odds, I ate there on Tuesday for the first time in about a year. My breakfast hangout was always Steamers until it stopped being a breakfast hangout. Then it stopped being open at all for …
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By MONTE DUTTON Cooper Bowser (Furman photo) Click here. In Las Vegas, Nev., late, late on Tuesday night, led by 6-11 Cooper Bowser, Furman won its seventh consecutive men’s basketball game, 61-56, over Seattle University in the Terry’s Chocolate Vegas Showdown at T-Mobile Arena.A sophomore from Woodbridge, Va., Bowser scored a career-high 17 points and …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Do you ever live in commercial world?If I ever go to New York again, I’m not going to the Empire State Building, Yankee Stadium or the Metropolitan Opera. I’m going to find that deck with the Statue of Liberty in the background. That’s where the action is.Several meds cause an …
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Thank God it’s over.Furman head football coach Clay Hendrix knew the numbers. Few were the starters returning from consecutive 10-3 season. He thought a decent season was possible if the Paladins stayed relatively healthy.They didn’t. The thinness will thicken next year, but this was a rough one.Elsewhere among …
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By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. I don’t understand why so many FCS teams want to move up to FBS, though it wouldn’t break my heart if some of those state schools from the sparsely populated northern mountains and prairies would take the ski jump.Oh, wait. It could have something to do with money, …
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. I didn’t get to watch the NFL snow game on Thursday, but I don’t think they’re actually wonderful for anyone but those watching on TV and some players.The fans in Cleveland are more acclimated, and the snow probably had something to do with the Browns’ upset of the …
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By MONTE DUTTON Click here. The South Carolina-Clemson meeting of the Laurens County Touchdown Club – it’s held a week early because next Thursday is some holiday or something – was a civil, sportsmanlike affair at The Ridge.No one made reference to Chickens and Kittycats. Mascots didn’t square off and threaten to scuffle. No one …
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PJay Smith was almost perfect behind the arc (Monte Dutton). Click here. This time the Petrels flew into the storm.Stormy Petrels are seabirds. Oglethorpe University of Brookhaven, Ga., adopted them as its mascot. Petrels are not migratory. Furman basketball is migratory this year and played Oglethorpe, a Division III school, at Legacy Early College’s Parker …
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By MONTE DUTTON Brett Young, then wearing No. 35, rushes Chester's Trooper Floyd in last year's game (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Chester (5-5) is neither the team ranked No. 1 in Class 2A before the season nor the one that lost its first three games.The visitor in Friday night’s playoff game at Wilder Stadium …
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By MONTE DUTTON Freshman Trey Hedden stepped back into the starting lineup and led the Paladins to victory (Furman photo). Click here. I spent the first half of Sunday catching up on this site, that and watching an old film noir titled “The Big Combo,” with Cornel Wilde and Richard Conte.As a measure of how …
Nightrider's Lament 