"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 Steve Englehart's Blue Hose won all six home games this season (PC photo). After an afternoon of cutting a cake, raising a banner and looking nervously at one another, Presbyterian College conceded that, yes, as everyone expected ever since the football team became nationally ranked, the head coach and gosh knows who …
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Jonah Pierce (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The backdrop of Presbyterian College’s men’s basketball season is the exhibition games that opened the season … unofficially. The Blue Hose have played the devil and then the deep, blue sea. Most of the games this season are going to be somewhere in between. “’I’m very excited,” said …
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By MONTE DUTTON Click here. In Tiger Woods’ heyday, he was rolling thunder. It never surprised me when his body began to fail him. I’ve never seen a golfer come out of cleats like Woods. It was exciting, though. Scottie Scheffler’s personality reminds me of singer Vince Gill. He doesn’t seem to have that burning …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Sometimes the stars come together. Sometimes they line up. Sometimes they fall. There’s an old Randy Travis song that notes that the ocean’s salty and the stars sometimes fall. The name of the song is “Deeper Than the Holler.” I wouldn’t call Clinton High School’s baseball field …
Zay Pulley (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Laurens crossed the lake as if it was Washington crossing the Delaware on Wednesday night, defeating Greenwood, 8-6, behind three hits from third baseman Coleman Coker and a leadoff homer from second sacker Zay Pulley. Pulley’s blast and Avery Madden’s double staked the Raiders to a 4-0 lead, …
Bryanna Belton (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. From the time she first stepped on a District 56 gym floor, it has been obvious that Bryanna Belton was going to find herself a place to play college basketball. That place is Columbia International University, which while international, is still in the capital city of South Carolina. …
(Furman graphic) Click here. Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain … Norman is where the Furman women’s golf team is headed for regional play at Jimmie Austin Oklahoma University Golf Course on May 5-7. The Paladins, who are the No. 11 seed in Norman, are part of a 12-team regional field that …
(Furman photo) Click here. For a school that doesn’t field a baseball team around which to anchor its spring, the weekend’s sporting contests were rather exciting. The Paladins were shotmaking in golf, exuberant in tennis, dominating lacrosse, and so on and so forth. With the score tied at 3-all, senior Marissa Pennings defeated Alessandra Caceres, …
(PC photo) Click here. Presbyterian College, which for a day (April 5) was atop the Big South standings, lost the first two of a three-game baseball series in Radford, Va. The Blue Hose have dropped four games in a row. Entering Saturday’s games, PC now trails High Point (27-12, 11-3) by three games and USC …
(Furman photo) Click here. As is quite often the case, Furman is the Southern Conference champion in women’s golf. Audrey Ryu, at even par, was individual medalist, and Furman (+34) won the team title by nine strokes at the Solina Golf Club in West Columbia. The Paladins, who have won eight of the last 10 …
Nightrider's Lament 