"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)
Kaleb Scott (PC photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Presbyterian seeks its second victory over a Southern Conference member on Saturday when the Blue Hose visit Lexington, Va., to take on Virginia Military at Cameron Hall. Presbyterian (5-3) defeated The Citadel, 71-64, on Nov. 14 in Clinton. The Blue Hose began the season with four consecutive victories, marking their …
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Tushawan Richardson (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Initial indications suggest improvement in the basketball prospects of Laurens County schools. Clinton’s girls’ and boys’ teams swept the games in Prosperity against Mid-Carolina. Laurens fell to Hillcrest, but the improvement over last year is evident. Laurens Academy swept Spartanburg Christian. John Gardner’s Clinton girls improved to 3-0, holding …
Alex Herriott (44) (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Presbyterian College’s greatest moment to date in the Pioneer Football League occurred in Des Moines, Iowa, and on the unlikely date of April 17, 2021. It was the weird COVID spring. PC’s quarterback was Tyler Huff, and its head coach was Tommy Spangler, and the Blue Hose drove …
(PC photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Let the record note that the autumn of 2023 had its moments for Presbyterian College athletics. The Blue Hose don’t win that often. They stun. They shock. And basketball just started. It might become a habit. In front of 5,508 at Memorial Gymnasium, most of which likely wish they …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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