By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. When Steve Englehart arrived at Presbyterian College, in the spring of 2022, amid the ruins of the Year of Living Dangerously with Kevin Kelley, about 30 football-playing warm bodies greeted him. On Wednesday morning, Englehart greeted his third team of Blue Hose, now numbered 117. None of …
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County Signs: Legends of fall begin with August work
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Practice makes perfect. Doesn’t it? It’s not without its hazards. Injuries happen. An ancient television show known as Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In used to hand out the “Fickle Finger of Fate.” My view is that luck intervenes only in the short term. It all evens out. Click …
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Furmanology: Time to make perfect
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Practice is about to start, not just at Furman, other colleges and high schools, and not just football but a wide range of other activities involving men and women, boys and girls, sticks, balls, helmets, clubs, racquets, mats, nets, etc. As a direct result, less of my …
County Signs: Turns out it isn’t the weekend yet
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. On Friday morning, I awakened, and for about 30 minutes, thought it was Saturday. Until I made coffee, I thought I still had Sweet ‘n’ Low. The tipoff was that TCM wasn’t running a silly comedy or a crime serial. (Inexplicably, I have grown fond of old …
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Furmanology: The virtues of youth
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Clark (Furman photo) Click here. Eleven players on the current Furman football roster are listed as either seniors or graduates. The Paladins return 30 who earned letters and lose 37. Three starters are back on both offense, plus kicker Ian Williams. Yet Furman, which was 10-3 in each of the past …
County Signs: Recalling what it feels like
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Sensations keep us going. They keep us ambling up stadium steps long after we’re capable of running them. We remember how it feels, from a distance of decades, to lie on one’s back, the sun overhead, squinting, while raising the legs six inches … and holding them …
Paladins aim high
By MONTE DUTTON The sky above Paladin Stadium is the limit. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. While the Atlantic Coast Conference was meeting in Charlotte, N.C., amid rumors and litigation, the Southern Conference seemed stable and cohesive in Greenville on Tuesday. That doesn’t mean the coming football battles won’t be fierce. It’s a reason they …
Furmanology: The eyes of the SoCon …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The Hotel Hartness is a fantastic venue that is hard to find. Sure, I went there last year. This time my pickup recommended a course that was blocked by construction. That’s why I go places annoyingly early. I drove by The Real Estate Gallery. Yet it was …
County Signs: What we can learn from the young
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Friends, are you anxious every time you turn on the TV? Are you developing an emergency aversion, which is to say, an aversion to emergencies? Football starts next. What could go wrong? At the very least, athletes learn how to manage anxiety. Many even excel amidst it. I love so …
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County Signs: Head ’em up! Move ’em out!
By MONTE DUTTON Greg Porter (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, though the streams are swollen, keep them dogies rollin’, Rawhide! All the things I’m missin’, good vittles, love and kissin’, are waiting at the end of my ride. The herds are being assembled. The trail bosses are Steve Englehart, Jolly Doolittle, Corey …
Nightrider's Lament 