Furmanology: Four Furman women earn SoCon hoops recognition

On March 6, 2024 By wastedpilgrimIn SportsLeave a comment

(Furman graphic) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Tuesday was a busy day in the Furman athletics department. The Paladins earned All-Southern Conference decorations in women’s basketball, produced quality performances in men’s and women’s golf, North Carolina overpowered Furman in softball, and women’s tennis lost the first match in its spring-break trip to Florida. Four Furman women’s basketball players, three …

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Furmanology: One-run losses stymie Paladins

On March 4, 2024 By wastedpilgrimIn SportsLeave a comment

(Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ While the Furman basketball teams prepare for the Southern Conference in Asheville, N.C., other sports take the spotlight. Furman concluded its Paladins Softball Classic with a pair of excruciating losses, 3-2 to South Dakota and 4-3 to Akron. A comeback fell short against the Coyotes, whom the Paladins trailed, 3-1, after Rylie …

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Injury hampers LA in semifinal loss

On February 21, 2024 By wastedpilgrimIn SportsLeave a comment

Rylee Ballard (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Laurens Academy fell a game short in its bid to for a state championship in girls' basketball, and powerful Clemson escaped a mild upset bid by Presbyterian College on the baseball diamond on Tuesday. LA lost its best player, Olivia Huck, to ankle injury, and try as they might, …

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Furman gets lost in Mercer’s cave

On February 8, 2024 By wastedpilgrimIn SportsLeave a comment

Tyrese Hughey (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Inexplicably, the Paladins have lost their way. Jalyn McCreary scored 28 points and Mercer defeated Furman, 78-69, dropping the Paladins to their third loss in the last four games on Wednesday night, ending an 18-game mastery of the Bears and seven in a row at University Center in Macon, Ga. …

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Up close and televised

On July 24, 2023July 24, 2023 By wastedpilgrimIn SportsLeave a comment

By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Brian Harman is a small, bald man from Savannah, Ga., who came from just this side of nowhere on Sunday in Hoylake, England, to win his third PGA Tour event ever. It was a major. The Open Championship, or, since we have an Open across the pond, too, the British …

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Clark cashes in Wyndham points

On June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 By wastedpilgrimIn Sports, UncategorizedLeave a comment

By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) Baseball games are too long. College football games are too long. NASCAR races are too long. Soccer matches are too long. Why aren’t golf tournaments too long? Because it is the nature of the game. I wouldn’t want a round of the United States Open to be nine holes. Tastes of …

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Comedy Remains Elusive

On January 5, 2017 By wastedpilgrimIn WritingLeave a comment

Clinton, South Carolina, Thursday, January 5, 2017, 9:32 a.m. Try as I might, I don’t seem to be able to write a comedy. Oh, a couple of years ago, I took a stab at it. My third novel, Crazy of Natural Causes, was funny at times. It was a fable of life’s absurdity, but I …

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A Day That Clicked

On June 18, 2016 By wastedpilgrimIn WritingLeave a comment

It was blazing hot outside, but I never knew it. I shaved but never showered. On TV, the U.S. Open thought it was the Twenty-Four Hours of Le Mans. I was mainly oblivious. Occasionally, a hot-pink shirt or a crowd’s roar drew my attention. Golf announcers are exceedingly calm and mostly literate. Vin Scully is …

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Can’t Rush the Important Stuff

On June 17, 2016 By wastedpilgrimIn WritingLeave a comment

My goal today is to complete the first draft of what I intend to be my fifth novel, Cowboys Come Home. I'm expecting it to take two more drafts, perhaps only one, but I'm optimistic on such matters, and two is the likelihood. They won't take too long. The story isn't likely to require any …

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The Charmed Life of Charles Dough

On April 7, 2015 By wastedpilgrimIn FictionLeave a comment

This is the story of a prominent family, Homecoming at Calliham University, and a series of events that bring the wealthy alums, their children, and a couple mischievous stoners into, uh, contention. 1. DIFFERENT GOALS Jonathan Elbert McCutcheon was a direct descendant of the founder of Calliham College, his great-great-great grandfather Estes Calliham, …

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Nightrider's Lament

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