Trey Hedden threw for 358 yards (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. It’s going to be an exciting season at Paladin Stadium specifically and in the Southern Conference in general. Look out there. There is no Davidson of old. The lads had best be ready each week. The names, images and likenesses do not rival Texas …
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Bound to be better
By MONTE DUTTON Clay Hendrix (Furman photo) Click here. I am prone to overestimation of Furman’s football prospects. A year ago, as I perused Hunter Reid’s preview of the various position groups – the currently fashionable term is “rooms” – I discovered in the layout process that I had few action photos on file of …
County Signs: If commercials were real …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Do you ever live in commercial world?If I ever go to New York again, I’m not going to the Empire State Building, Yankee Stadium or the Metropolitan Opera. I’m going to find that deck with the Statue of Liberty in the background. That’s where the action is.Several meds cause an …
Furman, like Frampton, comes alive
Jackson Pryor looks it in (Furman photo). Click here. CHARLESTON – Furman freshman quarterback Trey Hedden portrayed Thomas Edison in the Paladins’ miraculous 17-16 victory over The Citadel on Saturday. A light came on, and Hedden wasn’t the only Paladin equipped with a bulb. Hedden, from Tampa, Fla., found Jackson Pryor -- yes, freshman of …
Unbeknownst to Blue Hose, they won one for Mojo
Mojo Nixon's head still bobbling at 6:08. (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Oh, what a night it must have been at Templeton Center. It may have been the best night of the season for Presbyterian men’s basketball, at the very least since the season opener at Vanderbilt, and this was in the Big South. The SEC …
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Mainly thinking again about what might’ve been
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ I would have liked to be in Frisco. I’ve got a lot of friends in the area, and at least one who would have let me sleep on his couch. All I would have needed was some gas and spending money. I could’ve not paid my taxes for …
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Football funnies and fun facts
(Pixabay photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ I love watching football. I loved playing football. I just wasn’t any good at it. Yet still I study those who are good at it. Either it’s weird or it’s natural. I’m addicted. Why else would I be noticing that even though Bowling Green has nothing to do with bowling, and neither …
Great things come to an end
By MONTE DUTTON Jeremiah Jackson (0), Braden Gilby (43) and Cally Chizik clobber a UTC runner. (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Before football season began, I knew it would be good and thought it would be great. After the first Chattanooga game, I knew it was a clutch team capable of making big plays in all situations. …
It ends for Dins in overtime
Tyler Huff prepares to pass. (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ MISSOULA, Mont. – Furman football season died with its boots on. Junior Bergen returned both a kickoff and a punt for touchdowns, and Clifton McDowell threw an overtime touchdown pass of 13 yards to Keelan White, and that’s why Montana defeated the Paladins, 35-28, in the quarterfinals …
Just another burly football team a long way away
By MONTE DUTTON Tyler Huff (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ By any measure, Furman’s game at the University of Montana on Friday night is a challenge. Among the basic measures are the over 2,000 miles separating the two NCAA FCS quarterfinal foes and 2,225 feet, the difference in elevation of Missoula (3,209) and Greenville (984). It’s not …
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Nightrider's Lament 