Clinton's Javen Cook (3) has rushed for 1,777 yards (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Guess what? This weekend three Laurens County football teams are going for their 10th victories. Clinton High School (9-3) hosts Fairfield Central (9-3) in the third round of the Class 2A playoffs. Laurens Academy (9-2) plays King Academy (11-0) at Greenwood …
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Big South opener goes to Swift, Bulldogs
Kishyah Anderson scored 31 points, but it was not enough (PC photo). Click here. Presbyterian entered the Hercules Tires Big South Championships as the defending champion, but that was 2023-24, and PC pulled off that upset – or those upsets, three of them -- as the fifth seed.In the opening game this year, matching the …
Furmanology: ‘Paladins, Paladins, where do you roam?’
By MONTE DUTTON Ben Vander Wal became the 11th Paladin to score in double figures this season (Furman photo). Click here. It’s early in the annual basketball wars, but both Furman teams are storming the proverbial beaches so far.The men's Dins of Bob Richey and the women of Pierre Curtis are a combined 15-4, and …
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Furmanology: Bowser, Paladins cash in
By MONTE DUTTON Cooper Bowser (Furman photo) Click here. In Las Vegas, Nev., late, late on Tuesday night, led by 6-11 Cooper Bowser, Furman won its seventh consecutive men’s basketball game, 61-56, over Seattle University in the Terry’s Chocolate Vegas Showdown at T-Mobile Arena.A sophomore from Woodbridge, Va., Bowser scored a career-high 17 points and …
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 …
Furmanology: Football was a long, hard road
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Thank God it’s over.Furman head football coach Clay Hendrix knew the numbers. Few were the starters returning from consecutive 10-3 season. He thought a decent season was possible if the Paladins stayed relatively healthy.They didn’t. The thinness will thicken next year, but this was a rough one.Elsewhere among …
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Furmanology: A late win means a lot
By MONTE DUTTON Freshman Trey Hedden stepped back into the starting lineup and led the Paladins to victory (Furman photo). Click here. I spent the first half of Sunday catching up on this site, that and watching an old film noir titled “The Big Combo,” with Cornel Wilde and Richard Conte.As a measure of how …
Furmanology: A tale of two Paladins
(Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The day after Bob Richey and men’s basketball ride a three-game win streak into the home Well, where another 3-0 team visits, Clay Hendrix and his football team visit Johnson City, Tenn., hoping to shine some light on a dim season,It’s a tale of two teams, the best of times …
Furmanology: So far, so good for Paladin basketball
By MONTE DUTTON Tyrese Hughey (15) (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Furman’s merry destruction of Columbia International was hardly a harbinger of glory to come.It was, however, damned impressive.Bob Richey, in his eighth season as men’s basketball coach, has never had a losing season at the Paladins’ helm. Last season, Furman was 17-16, and four …
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Furmanology: It gets no better at VMI
Colton Hinton (Furman photo) Click here. In their football uniforms, Furman and Virginia Military looked as if it was 1970. That year the Keydets blanked the Paladins, 13-0, in Lexington, Va.On Saturday, the score was 21-17 as VMI won its first game and Furman lost its third straight. It was a throwback in the worst …
Nightrider's Lament 