"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 Javen Cook gets a lot of help from his friends (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For any fans who might look at Friday night’s game at Wilder Stadium as just another first-round game, look again. In the past four seasons, Clinton has beaten Palmetto, 77-14; Travelers Rest, 49-14; Palmetto, 42-18; and Pelion, …
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Charles Johnston (Furman photo) Click here. A home court helps but not normally as much as the difference between the basketball games played at Rock Hill Sports & Event Center and Timmons Arena on Monday evening. High Point blitzed the Paladins at the Field of 68 Tipoff Marathon while the women’s team dominated North Greenville …
Continue reading High Point punishes Furman men; women clobber NGU
By MONTE DUTTON Samantha Mullock (25), Aretha Linger (8) and Allie Sykes (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Presbyterian College played something akin to boomerang basketball at Templeton Center on Monday. The Blue Hose women won by 68 points. The men lost by 21. The evidence suggests a disparity in the strength of the foes. PC’s …
By MONTE DUTTON Ben Croasdale takes a handoff from Trey Hedden (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For the first half of a quarter and the first three minutes of the second half, Furman was better than Mercer. Unfortunately, a college football game is more than 10 minutes and change; almost six times more. The Bears …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. As I sat in the audience at Thursday’s meeting of the Laurens County Touchdown Club, munching on a Groucho’s sub, I thought about the speakers whom I’ve known the longest. I narrowed it down to three: Robbie Caldwell, Phil Kornblut and Pete Yanity. Pete Yanity Caldwell, who is best known …
Jonah Pierce (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The backdrop of Presbyterian College’s men’s basketball season is the exhibition games that opened the season … unofficially. The Blue Hose have played the devil and then the deep, blue sea. Most of the games this season are going to be somewhere in between. “’I’m very excited,” said …
Continue reading Pierce’s return signals high hopes for PC basketball
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It was a tiring weekend. I’m glad I’m tired. On Friday, I drove to Blacksburg for a high-school football game in which there was no doubt which team, Clinton, was going to win. It was a fair jump up the interstate for 48-7. I got back home, …
Continue reading The exhibition was a fleeting thing, but the venue is here to stay
By MONTE DUTTON Gavin Hall rushed for 101 yards against East Tennessee State (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. As Furman prepares for homecoming and the annual invasion of The Citadel, it would be helpful to develop some of that old-fashioned distaste for the combatants of Charleston. Forty years ago, The Citadel was the last game …
(Furman photo) Click here. Not only did Furman not come to play at Western Carolina. As it turned out, I didn’t come to watch. I followed the Presbyterian game electronically. It started at 1 p.m. – PC has played at 1 the last four weeks – and the plan was, to borrow from the TV …
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn (10) fakes to Javen Cook (3) as Zy Butler looks for someone to block (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. A team begins its season and, despite the best of intentions, isn’t as good as expected. It’s a nightmarish realization for coaches. The atmosphere accelerates. Already obsessed with preparing for each …
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