"Why do they [write] for their money? Why do they [work] for short pay? They ain't getting nowhere and they're losing their share. They must have gone crazy back there." — Michael Burton (paraphrased)
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Clark (Furman photo) Click here. It’s doubly hard for winners to process it when they don’t win.Clay Hendrix and Luke Clark are winners many times over. They expect to win. For both the Furman head football coach and the graduate bandit – how’s that for a misleading term? – the Paladins’ …
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Tom House (Furman photo) Click here. Surprising no one, an International flavor agreed with Furman in its men’s basketball icebreaker at Bon Secours Wellness Arena on Monday night.That’s Columbia International. The Rams succumbed to the Paladins by a score of 104-46.Not much could be ascertained, other than most everyone for Furman (1-0) looked marvelous. The …
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Cooper Bowser (Furman photo) Click here. It’s basketball season. Most citizens are thinking of the election. Rightly so. National elections don’t happen every year. Thank the Lord.The men’s team is at home against Columbia International, an NAIA school, at Bon Secours Wellness Arena. It tips off at 7 p.m. Returns start trickling in early from …
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 …
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. The week hasn’t been a total loss. I saw Daniel J. Travanti, Furillo many years later on Hill Street Blues, trying and failing to get away with murder on an old Perry Mason. Also, I watched a splendid movie, “Cry, Beloved Country,” starring James Earl Jones and Richard …
Nick Anderson (Furman photo) Click here. Auburn is ranked 11th in the country entering men’s basketball season. The Tigers’ 83-62 victory over Furman was no surprise. It was, however, a charity exhibition at Bon Secours Wellness Arena on Sunday afternoon, so it didn’t matter much. J.P. Pegues returned. That mattered. In 11 first-half minutes, he …
Tyler Huff as a Paladin (Furman photo) Click here. Amidst an otherwise dreary Furman fall, it’s comforting to see Tyler Huff swashbuckling his way through Jacksonville State games on weeknights. Huff is doing for the Gamecocks what he did for the Paladins in a pair of 10-3 seasons at quarterback. The 6-1, 215 “mega senior” …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Two baseball memories for a Wednesday. I’ve got a lot of Furman baseball memories. Apparently, I’m not getting any more. Dum spiro spero. I was in San Diego, Calif., in the middle of Fernandomania. I saw Valenzuela pitch against the Padres at Jack Murphy Stadium. It was the wildest scene …
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(Furman photo) Click here. Apart from the homecoming massacre of ’24, the recent athletics events at Furman haven’t been half bad. Texas A&M edged the Paladins by two strokes in the 54th Furman Intercollegiate, setting a tournament record of 831, a shot better than Furman while winning last year. Wake Forest (-19) finished third in …
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By MONTE DUTTON Colton Hinton (Furman photo) Click here. It took three plays for Western Carolina to score a touchdown at the beginning, but things got worse. The Catamounts, led by quarterback Cole Gonzales, rolled up a Southern Conference record 801 yards of total offense in a 52-20 victory over Furman on Saturday that dampened …
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