"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 Clay Hendrix is riding the comeback trail (Furman photo) Click here. Perhaps there is some consolation in Furman’s 3-8 record in football.The Paladins are hardly alone in upward or downward mobility.Arizona State improved this year from 3-9 to 11-2. Florida State fell from 13-1 to 2-10. The Seminoles are a poster child …
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(Elena Davidson photo) Click here. A football team – quite possibly, many other kinds of teams, as well – is formed early in the season. It’s complicated, but what’s simple is that, in every game, both teams try, and adversity shapes a team’s character. Mississippi, in beating Furman, 76-0, as quickly as possible, provided the …
(PC photo) Click here. NORTH CHARLESTON --- Presbyterian College played Charleston Southern University three times in the lovely sport of baseball at the Buccaneers’ Nielsen Field. The Blue Hose won all three: Friday in a blowout, Saturday in a comeback and Sunday by comeback resistance. Click here. PC won the season’s first four games and …
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. Saturday’s victory over Charleston Southern put Presbyterian in a tie for first place in the Big South Conference baseball standings for at least a day. It’s not like the Blue Hose just began the season hot, though they did. When Sunday’s game at Charleston Southern ends, PC will …
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By MONTE DUTTON Joel Dragoo (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. I suppose folks must know, but it just hasn’t spread around their consciousness yet. They’re preoccupied. PC baseball is a game out of first place in the Big South Conference. Yeah. Did you hear me? What? Click here. PC. It’s a game out of first …
By MONTE DUTTON Alaura Sharp coached the PC women for six seasons. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Here’s where Presbyterian College basketball stands. Quinton Ferrell remains the men’s basketball coach, coming off the best of his five seasons. Though finishing with a 14-19 record, the Blue Hose played in the Ro College Basketball Invitational in …
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