(Furman photo) Click here. I heard a comic say, when the March Madness is over (in April), people can go back to doing work in their offices. Those lines have always been blurred for yours truly. My trade is translating sports into English. I write what I see and what people say. What separates being …
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Furmanology: Donnelly honored among peers
(Furman graphic) Click here. I’m confident I was among the first 10,000 to notice the common thread in the past two coaches to defeat the University of Virginia in the NCAAs. Nothing against the Cavs. It wasn’t personal. Did it strike you as odd that six teams from the Mountain West made the field, all …
Furmanology: Baseball gone, basketball over
Clark Akers (Furman photo) Click here. Furman is hustling and bustling as best it can without a baseball team. That’s old news, of course, but hope springs. The longest shot of the month is in Clinton, where the Presbyterian College women’s basketball team won the Big South tournament and is now preparing for an NCAA …
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Sing a little football song
By MONTE DUTTON Eels hover above Paris Mountain. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I thought well, gee whiz, why not just start the season? Saturday was the first one in the autumn when it’s not too hot. Except it was March 16. Fluffy clouds slowly crossed the sky, northeast, as if they constituted an armed …
Furmanology: Rare outbreaks of football are okay in spring
Colton Hinton (Furman photo) Click here. I’m excited to see what the Paladins are cooking up. Many news slots have come open from last fall’s 10-3 season and a last-second loss in the FCS third round. To wit: Kickoff for the Purple-White spring game is set for 1 p.m. Saturday at Paladin Stadium The game, …
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Thoughts this time of year
Laurens Academy's Olivia Huck (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. When I get up in the morning, brew some coffee while I’m taking some meds, turn on the TV and see what awful happened last night, my set (remember when a TV was a set?) recommends what I want to see. Then I commence translating sports …
Furmanology: Softball splits with Gardner-Webb
Chloe Fabio (Furman photo) Click here. Basketball is over, and baseball, for now, is extinct, but Furman’s athletics program remains busy. It took a couple games, but Furman ended Gardner-Webb’s 11-game softball winning streak at Pepsi Stadium. The Bulldogs won the opener, 8-5, in 11 innings, and the Paladins bounced back to capture the nightcap, …
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Furmanology: Paladins take a few tumbles
Lauralee Scott (Furman photo) Click here. Away from the bright lights of Harrah’s Cherokee Center, the ecstasy and the agony, a lot more was going on in Furman athletics. Nowhere, as best I know, did anyone have a fight, injure an official or taunt the opposition afterward. Miami (Ohio) and Georgia used big first innings …
Samford makes its seeding stick, 84-77
Carter Whitt hit 4/5 three pointers and scored 20 points. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Advancing to the SoCon finals proved too much of an Achor. Achor Achor, 6-9, from Australia, led Samford to an 84-77 victory on Sunday at Harrah’s Cherokee Center. The Melbourne product scored 28 points and grabbed 14 …
Furmanology: Softball falls again in Athens
(Furman photo) Click here. Away from the bright lights of Harrah’s Cherokee Arena, a great runner made second-team All-America status, and Furman lost a one-run softball game and a tennis match at home to Wake Forest. Furman rallied for two runs in the seventh inning but came up short in a 3-2 defeat versus Jacksonville …
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Nightrider's Lament 