By MONTE DUTTON Marcus Foster scored 18 points and grabbed six rebounds. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Almost the same Din time. Same Din station. Three hundred, sixty-four nights after Furman opened the 2022-23 season with the first of 28 victories, 91-55 over North Greenville, different versions of the same neighboring schools met again at Timmons …
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Paladins picked at top of SoCon basketball
J.P. Pegues (Elena Davidson photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman graduated its two best players, Mike Bothwell and Jalen Slawson, but seven of the nine leading scorers return. That was enough for the Paladins to be picked as the favorites to defend the Southern Conference men’s basketball championship in voting by both coaches and media. J.P. Pegues and …
The next level
By MONTE DUTTON Jalen Slawson in the SoCon Tournament (Elena Davidson photo). There’s an old story, told cheerfully by both men, about Les Robinson, then head coach at The Citadel, asking Furman’s Joe Williams out to lunch when he was passing through Greenville. “Can’t,” Williams said, “gotta go to graduation.” “They don’t even make me …
What to do when it rains
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) The last time I felt like this in June, I was in Seattle. The entire past week has been spent in days which my old man used to say “ain’t good for nothin’ ‘cept sleeping.” The more specific description of weather trends is global “weirding,” not “warming.” Warming is just a …
You can’t hide money
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) Spanning the globe, making observations regarding the constant variety of sport, the heartbreak of psoriasis, the pain of arthritis, and the flammability of money when it’s laying around. … If this isn’t a mess, it’ll do till the mess gets here. Few spectacles are more pleasing than watching Ja Morant play …
Paladins make smooth segue with Curtis hire
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman graphic) I was thinking Thursday night that the best course for Furman women’s basketball would be to promote Pierre Curtis to succeed Jackie Carson as head coach. Completely independent of my thoughts, athletics director Jason Donnelly arrived at the same conclusion. I don’t know Curtis – I’ve exchanged pleasantries, perhaps even …
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And I love them so
(Fletcher Pruitt Jr. photo) (Monte Dutton photo) I’d hate to pick between baseball and football, and basketball is rising with a bullet in this writer’s pop chart. You can dance to basketball. (For those of you too young for Dick Clark’s American Bandstand, it’s an old cliché. The crowds of wholesome youths would rate the …
Moon shots …
I have some thoughts regarding here, there and yonder. Every NFL team that needs a quarterback better have a reliable backup, too. Quarterbacks who run are popular. Defenders who want to clobber them are, too. The only quarterback I’ve ever seen who was more physical than the men trying to tackle him was washed up …
Biscuits, Coffee and Fellowship
Clinton, South Carolina, Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 8:33 p.m. The morning was something of a disaster. I had been up well past midnight, as usual, after writing about the basketball games, Clinton High ones, which represented both the Devil (Red) and the deep, blue sea. The girls’ team won the region championship. The boys finished …
Stormy Thursday
Clinton, South Carolina, Thursday, February 6, 2020, 1:18 p.m. Storms never last, do they, baby? Bad times all pass with the winds … Waylon Jennings had the perfect voice to sing those words. The storms of life keep washing me away. Ditto, Randy Travis. It’s rainin’, rainin’ in my heart. Damned if it hasn’t knocked …
Nightrider's Lament 