By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I wonder if I will live to see the elimination of humanity in everything. God, I hope not. When word broke that WLBG is apparently signing off for the last time at the end of the month, it took me by specific but not general surprise. It’s the way of …
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No soft touches in Furman’s upcoming FBS opponents
(Furman photo) Click here. Athletics director Jason Donnelly released four Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) opponents on future (2026-29) Paladin schedules. Furman will play Tennessee on Sept. 5, 2026, South Carolina on Sept. 4, 2027, Florida on Sept. 2, 2028 and Clemson on Nov. 17, 2029. The clash with Tennessee, a 2024 College Football Playoff participant, …
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Clemson gets ‘Cowboyed up’
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Now, I’m kidding, okay? The last two times I’ve watched Clemson play basketball, the Tigers have come from hopelessly behind to losing barely. Against Louisville, if not for an unbelievable “no call,” they may well have won. Against the McNeese State Cowboys on Thursday, Clemson was way back. Yet the …
Paladins to face North Texas in NIT
Nick Anderson (Furman photo) Click here. If you're reading this, there's a solid chance you're filling out a bracket. My advice is to look for incentive. When you're picking your upsets -- and there are going to be upsets -- look at the teams that have something to prove against the ones that probably are …
Westside takes region opener from Laurens
By MONTE DUTTON Zay Pulley (file photo) Click here. Westside’s 8-4 victory over Laurens on Monday night came principally at the Raiders’ own hands.Five errors, all in the Laurens infield, were LDHS’s undoing as only one of the runs was earned. Laurens (3-7, 0-1 Region 1-4A) can make amends on a Wednesday trip to Anderson …
Paladins target a Mean shade of Green in NIT
Garrett Hien, Nick Anderson (7) work in tandem (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Furman men's basketball earned an at-large bid to the National Invitation Tournament and will travel to face the No. 2-seeded North Texas Mean Green on Wednesday in Denton.Tip-off is slated for 8 p.m. EDT at UNT Coliseum and the first-round matchup will …
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Games getting farther apart
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. One aspect of sports – in most every one except NASCAR, where races are increasingly contrived – is that close games and matches are becoming rare.Once I was at a trade show in Pennsylvania and said to a favorite race driver, “A man’s got to drive like hell to lose …
There must be Ninety Six ways to win a ballgame
Luke Young (file photo) Click here. Clinton continues to heat up with the weather, winning its third baseball game in a row on Wednesday night, 11-4, at Ninety Six.Catcher Luke Young singled in the third and sixth innings and homered to left in the fourth,The Red Devils got on the board in the second on …
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Terriers get their shooting dialed in, 92-85
By MONTE DUTTON Cooper Bowser guards Corey Tripp (10) (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. ASHEVILLE, N.C. – It’s not the first time I’ve invoked the memory of the late Jim Beauchamp on such occasions, and it probably won’t be the last. I think of “Beech” (his name was pronounced “BEE-chum”) often because he was larger …
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Slow starts back home
By MONTE DUTTON Gardner-Webb coach Jeremy Luther took his medicine in Johnson City (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Being away on my great basketball road trip spared me an inglorious period back home.It was sorrowful in Johnson City, Tenn., too. (I can’t say those three words without thinking of “Wagon Wheel.”) I was moved by …
Nightrider's Lament 