"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 (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It was a tiring weekend. I’m glad I’m tired. On Friday, I drove to Blacksburg for a high-school football game in which there was no doubt which team, Clinton, was going to win. It was a fair jump up the interstate for 48-7. I got back home, …
Continue reading The exhibition was a fleeting thing, but the venue is here to stay
By MONTE DUTTON Jayquan Smith (28) scored two TDs (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The Citadel is coming! The Citadel is coming! The Citadel must be stopped. It’s easy to say it’s just another football game. It’s easy to say, oh, the rival is Wofford now. Well, Wofford won last week. When Furman plays The …
By MONTE DUTTON Gavin Hall rushed for 101 yards against East Tennessee State (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. As Furman prepares for homecoming and the annual invasion of The Citadel, it would be helpful to develop some of that old-fashioned distaste for the combatants of Charleston. Forty years ago, The Citadel was the last game …
(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 …
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 …
(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 …
By MONTE DUTTON Gavin Hall (6) became Furman's first 100-yard rusher against ETSU (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Furman is atop the Southern Conference football standings, at least in the loss column, and the margin is so small. Western Carolina (3-3), which the Paladins play on Saturday at E.J. Whitmire Stadium in Cullowhee, N.C., is, …
Trey Hedden threw for 358 yards (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. It’s going to be an exciting season at Paladin Stadium specifically and in the Southern Conference in general. Look out there. There is no Davidson of old. The lads had best be ready each week. The names, images and likenesses do not rival Texas …
Ja'Keith Hamilton (Furman photo) Click here. The Southern Conference is getting organized. Each member is a squall drifting off the coast of Africa. The local meteorologists breathlessly give us the latest analyses of where each storm is headed and its chances of development. Furman (3-1, 1-0 SoCon) is coming off an impressive road victory at …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Moe Bandy sang a song called “Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life.” Paul Craft wrote it. Archie Campbell and Grandpa Jones sang “Gloom, Despair and Agony” (Buck Owens and Roy Clark) on Hee Haw, along with quite a few others: “If It weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck …
Nightrider's Lament 