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 …
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Furman gets off to solid SoCon start
(Furman photo) Click here. HOMEWOOD, Ala. – Clay Hendrix knows how to win, and he knows how to rebuild. He knows Furman University like a founding father. Been there. Done that. Whether as a player or an assistant coach or head coach, Hendrix knows anything can happen. Coach long enough, and it will. Recently, Hendrix …
Furman looks to emerge from SoCon muddle
By MONTE DUTTON Jackson Pryor (17) has three catches for 42 yards and a touchdown (Furman photo). Click here. The Southern Conference football championship is there for the taking. Furman takes its first shot at SoCon opposition on Saturday when the Paladins visit Samford at 3:30 p.m. Forget about picking a favorite. Only Mercer is …
SoCon race is wide-open
Evan James (Furman photo) Click here. Last week Clay Hendrix said he thinks Furman has as good a chance as any of winning the Southern Conference football championship. It’s true. No school has emerged as a favorite. All appear to have chinks in their armor. The Paladins have defeated two Coastal Athletic Association schools, William …
Furman hopes to regain footing versus caravan of Camels
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. A football season is just an old song. Up this hill and down / And up this hill again / It’s a might, mighty long road / What ain’t got no end. Furman has thus far played two games, the former decided by two points and the latter …
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The little team that can
By MONTE DUTTON Dominic Kibby (PC photo) Click here. What is the anatomy of an upset? What is the anatomy of two? How has Presbyterian College, which doesn’t award football scholarships, managed to begin the season with consecutive victories over Mercer and Furman, both of which do? Steve Englehart says he’s just an old-fashioned kind …
Blue Hose come off deck to upset Furman, 39-38, in OT
Nathan Levicki caught the game-winner (PC photo). Click here. Presbyterian College makes football scholarships look like a luxury item. Anybody can win with scholarships. It takes a team to win without them. What the Blue Hose of fourth-year head coach Steve Englehart have done in the first two weeks of the season is ridiculous. If …
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Good times, great oldies, the Devils and the deep blue sea
By MONTE DUTTON Keith Richardson won six state championships and 239 games as Clinton head coach (photo courtesy John Clayton). Click here. Many times I have expressed the opinion that my life is seldom mediocre. Either everything goes right, or everything goes wrong. That’s not the way life is. It’s just the way it seems. …
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Blue Hose to visit Furman loaded with Bears
Malaki Dobbins pressures W&M's Tyler Hughes (Furman photo). Click here. No sooner had the Furman Paladins passed their initial football test with a 23-21 victory over William & Mary, some surprising news arrived on Saturday night from Macon, Ga. Presbyterian College, a non-scholarship program from Clinton, upended Mercer, the reigning Southern Conference champion, by a …
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A sense of deja vu
By MONTE DUTTON Jaydon Glenn is the latest Player of the Week (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Whoever heard of playing the three biggest rivals in the first three football games? Does Alabama open with Auburn, Tennessee and Ole Miss? Florida with FSU, Miami and Georgia? The Philadelphia Eagles with the Ravens, Bills and Chiefs? …
Nightrider's Lament 