"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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
By MONTE DUTTON Mike Bothwell, the man of a thousand expressions (Elena Davidson photo) Click here. It’s Saturday morning, and somehow it’s nearly 11, and I’ve been up since 8:30 after getting as much as I could on last night’s one-point loss to Gardner-Webb by Presbyterian and inserting more details. I updated it this morning. …
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By MONTE DUTTON Furman still has its eyes on the prize. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Furman could win the Ingles Southern Conference Men’s Basketball Championship. The Paladins could also exit in the quarterfinal round against Western Carolina at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday at Harrah’s Cherokee Center in Asheville, N.C. Furman (16-15, 10-8 SoCon) have …
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Jada Session (Monte Dutton photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ It’s been an uphill climb all season for first-year head coach Pierre Curtis, but the Furman women’s basketball team advanced modestly toward the summit in the regular season. The Paladins tip off the Ingles Southern Conference Tournament as the seventh seed, meaning that their 1:15 p.m. quarterfinal pits them …
Continue reading Furmanology: Women to open tourney Thursday; Pegues, Foster earn men’s plaudits
Trevon Reddish-Rhone (left) and Kory Mincy sweep the weekly Big South honors. (PC photo) Click here. Both Presbyterian College basketball teams enter the Hercules Tires Big South Conference Basketball Championship as long shots. Pretty dangerous long shots. Presbyterian (17-14, 8-8 BSC) is the fifth seed in the women’s bracket and opens on Thursday at 2 …
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Samage Teel (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Presbyterian men’s basketball considerably improved its seeding for the Big South Basketball Tournament by finishing off a season sweep – in its first and last conference games – of Charleston Southern. Baseball won in extra innings over Saint Bonaventure, but women’s basketball dropped its game in North Charleston against …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: Teel, Reddish-Rhone lead PC into tourney
Nightrider's Lament 