By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I can’t move on from football. Football is too great. I love it too much.To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. – Ecclesiastes 3:1Mortals have made seasons overlap.In Clinton, the stadium is named after the quiet man who lived across the highway. …
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Cook leads Red Devils in zoom meeting, 31-14
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (3) prepares to breach the wall (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. They call him Zoom, and Javen Cook is a thoroughly dangerous young man. He’s little, but he’s loud. Actually, it’s mainly the crowd that gets loud.The Clinton junior is a phenomenon. He’s so shifty they can’t tackle him and …
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The Waffle House and oyster-dressing dreams
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. It’s Thanksgiving, so, naturally, I’m writing about Waffle House.Believe it or not, and defying all odds, I ate there on Tuesday for the first time in about a year. My breakfast hangout was always Steamers until it stopped being a breakfast hangout. Then it stopped being open at all for …
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Playoff clashes of 2A titans get tougher
By MONTE DUTTON Tushawan Richardson hands off to Javen Cook (3) (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. In the first three football games of the season, Clinton got off to slow starts.“We’ve got to get better,” said head coach Corey Fountain.In all but one game since, the Red Devils have literally hit the ground running. It’s …
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 …
County Signs: LA’s state-title quest ends
By MONTE DUTTON Rhett Gilliam and company ran away from Chester (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. In Laurens County, football season is down to one team, the Clinton Red Devils, and that’s the case for the fourth straight season.The Red Devils, 48-20 winners over Chester in the Class 2A second round, take on the state’s …
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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Blue Hose climb all the way back
By MONTE DUTTON Worth Warner enjoyed a happy conclusion to his PC career (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. To understand where Presbyterian College football has come, one has to consider where it’s been.Saturday’s 30-27 upset of Butler (9-3, 5-3 PFL) was the Blue Hose’ fourth in a row. They went from 2-6 to 6-6 and, …
Gilliam leads Big Red rampage, 48-20
By MONTE DUTTON Rhett Gilliam finds a hole (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For teams that win their regions, the first round of the football playoffs is stress-free and the second is fraught with concern.Led by an unexpected hero, hard-nosed sophomore Rhett Gilliam, Clinton still got to chill – literally – in its 48-20 conquest …
Nightrider's Lament 