Friendly places, smiling faces …

Darlington Raceway (NASCAR Images) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants I’m going to miss a unique opportunity to go to my three favorite places in the next four nights. I’ll be at Paladin Stadium to write about Furman playing Tennessee Tech on Thursday at 7. I’m going to be at Wilder Stadium to write about Clinton High playing Newberry on …

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Time to bring it on

(Elena Davidson photos) With great talent comes great responsibility. No one has higher aspirations this season than Clay Hendrix’s Furman Paladins. To a man, they think they can win it all, and they are not alone. https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Preseason rankings have placed the Paladins as high as fifth nationally, and the consensus is sixth in the …

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Sing a little sunshine song

By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ The coming season provides a potential vista as gorgeous as the one at Paladin Stadium late Saturday evening. Bright skies, glorious sunshine, frivolity all about. Clay Hendrix wasn’t pleased with the Paladins’ FanFest, but, after all, it was a fest. The band was playing the fight song, not …

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Wishing and hoping and thinking and praying

By MONTE DUTTON (Elena Davidson photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman football has been ranked as high as fifth in various preseason forecasts of the Football Championship Subdivision, which is why people just say FCS whether or not they know what it is. I’ve never seen the need to suppress I-AA. The Paladins finished 10th last season, and …

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Huff, Sochovka to lead Paladin charge

By MONTE DUTTON From left, Matt Sochovka, Tyler Huff and Furman sports information director Hunter Reid (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ When I arrived at the Southern Conference’s football Media Day on Thursday, I was happy to see that my two favorite Furman players, Tyler Huff and Matt Sochovka, accompanied head coach Clay Hendrix to the …

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Goin’ up around the bend …

By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Next week high-school coverage will amp up, but for now, here’s a collection of thoughts from here, there and yon. https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants The dominant story on radio/TV gabfests is “who will get Shohei Ohtani?” Either the Los Angeles Angels keep him in Anaheim at the risk of watching him become …

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Hard to please and worth it

By MONTE DUTTON (Furman graphic) It’s difficult to describe a man simply from a panorama of nearly half a century. Richard Brinsley Sheridan had a righteous voice. https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Football players did what he told them. He told them to win. He molded them to be indomitable. They expected to win. https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Dick Sheridan died in …

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