By MONTE DUTTON Boyce Bankhead (22) leads the Blue Hose in tackles (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For Presbyterian College football, the pressure never lets up. For every Saturday that the Blue Hose win a game, the need for another multiplies. Seven weeks in, Presbyterian still has its perfect season intact. The Blue Hose goal …
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Red Devils are in Zoom mode
By MONTE DUTTON Red Devil offense is getting better with every game (Monte Dutton photos). Corey Fountain and his Clinton High School football staff have been working on a building. It’s not much different from the old gospel, bluegrass tune penned by A.P Carter. I’m working on a building / I’m working on a building …
Terriers exacerbate Furman slump, 31-13
(Wofford photo) Click here. Lord have mercy. I wasn’t there. Gibbs Stadium isn’t currently a happy place for a Furman grad. In each of the previous two football meetings, Wofford won, 19-13. This time the score was 31-13. I was watching unbeaten Presbyterian crush Stetson, 42-7. The story in Clinton is extraordinary. Spartanburg is to …
Will wonders never cease?
By MONTE DUTTON Collin Hurst cocks and fires (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. It should go without saying. When a college football team wins its seventh game in a row, it’s not a miracle anymore. Presbyterian College is just good. The Blue Hose took the crease out of Stetson on a homecoming Saturday in front …
Cook, Devils are born to run
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (3) is off to the races with Zy Butler (18) and Tre Aiken (70) leading the way (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Okay, it wasn’t even a full game. The clock ran the entire second half. Javen Cook, in particular, and the Clinton Red Devils, in general, made the best …
All cheers, no jeers, in the county
The Red Devils have won three straight games (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For the first time, all of Laurens County’s football teams won last weekend. All the teams, combined, have a record of 19-12. The schedules range from Clinton High School and Laurens Academy, each of which have played eight games, to Thornwell, which …
Furman aims to put Western Carolina behind
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Most everyone who watches sports overreacts. When I wrote about NASCAR for a living, occasionally I drew the ire of a famous driver (or owner, family member, sponsor, PR rep, etc.) for something I wrote. “You think I’m tough? Read my mail,” I’d say. “I’m Fans Light.” Back …
Ayers to bring his passionate message to TD Club
By MONTE DUTTON Mike Ayers (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. If you’ve never seen Mike Ayers speak to the Laurens County Touchdown Club – and there’s an opportunity every year – it’s time to experience the longtime Wofford College head coach from close range. It’s a lot like having Mike Ditka at The Ridge, though …
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Those Blue Hose keep rolling along
By MONTE DUTTON Steve Englehart (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. When football season started, hopes were high at Presbyterian College. The Blue Hose had improved from 1-10 to 4-7 to 6-6 in Steve Englehart’s first three years as head coach. They won their last four games in 2024. Things were clearly looking up, but damn. …
Furman hits the mountains flat
(Furman photo) Click here. Not only did Furman not come to play at Western Carolina. As it turned out, I didn’t come to watch. I followed the Presbyterian game electronically. It started at 1 p.m. – PC has played at 1 the last four weeks – and the plan was, to borrow from the TV …
Nightrider's Lament 