By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The lingo of basketball constantly changes. It’s as if coaches go off to clinics and camps and come back speaking a whole new language. This has been going on for decades. It's almost as fast as technology. Every time a fellow feels like he's caught up, everything …
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Furmanology: Paladins win first softball series with Terriers
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. My first impression when I watch Nikola Jokic is of one of those 1970s rasslers who claimed to be from a Communist country. Then I realize that Jokic takes the exact same clumsy shots I took when I played basketball, with the exceptions that he hits virtually all …
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Furmanology: Another heavenly hall of fame
By MONTE DUTTON (Caleb Gilbert photo) Click here. I have warm memories of Jimmy Satterfield, who was not always a warm man. He was folksy, humble and patient, but on game day, he turned cold. Satterfield grew up hard, as most in his generation did. It took a while to figure him out. And vice-versa. …
Furmanology: On the bright side, lacrosse wins
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. It’s all busy work, mostly thankless. Thanks to staking out Laurens County as part of my territory, I’m aware of the importance of baseball. It’s big. Clinton won the state title in Class 3A last year. An inexperienced team is getting better by the week and still has …
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Furmanology: How the duffer relates
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Augusta National is hell in heaven. It’s Oz, complete with witches both good and wicked flitting about. It seemed as if the first- and second-place finishers, Scottie Scheffler and Ludvig Aberg, were the only players on the course who seemed to be enjoying himself. Tiger Woods was a …
Furmanology: No one is immune to time
3By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Click here. Maybe it’s the weight of all that pressure for all those years. Or an inability or unwillingness to cope with the ravages of time and injury. Tiger Woods looks unhappy. His expression seems set in a perpetual scowl. It’s tough to become accustomed to a view from the …
Furmanology: The Masters and me
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. The only time I ever went to Augusta National was when I was barely out of Furman. I wrote columns on Saturday and Sunday, and, man, am I confident they were horrible. I enjoyed it, but I think, even at the time, I thought once was enough. Never …
Furmanology: Dick Sheridan’s losing season
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Young men wouldn’t play football if it wasn’t fun. The most fun is winning. At the same time, a losing season, while unthinkable, can be beneficial. Dick Sheridan, who died last summer, coached the Paladins for eight seasons, accumulating a record of 69 victories, 23 defeats and …
Furmanology: Mercer finishes of Dins in extras
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Had Iowa won the women’s basketball championship on Sunday, Caitlin Clark might have been named a finalist to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate. She’s too young. It violates the Constitution. That doesn’t seem to stop anyone else these days. Iowa didn’t win the game Sunday. South …
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Furmanology: No baseball … but lacrosse wins
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. I conducted some web research and have confirmed that Connecticut’s Donovan Clingan is not a Klingon, though, in fairness, I did find some disreputable site that claimed he was, as well as Purdue’s Zach Edey and N.C. State’s D.J. Burns. The Wolfpack had quite a run. I can’t …
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