Furmanology: Learn from mistakes and move on

By MONTE DUTTON For Clay Hendrix, there's no place like home (Furman photo). Click here. Furman fans were not alone. The first full weekend of college-football brought little to savor for Palmetto State partisans. What could be worse than Ole Miss pounding the Paladins, 76-0? Oh, Furman fans are downtrodden, but the Paladins were playing …

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County Signs: How fleet is the Fleet when it flies?

By MONTE DUTTON Steve Englehart (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. What do you do? You shake hands, pick up the check and get back to work on games you can actually win. Mystery surrounds the Presbyterian Blue Hose in the aftermath of last Thursday night’s 63-10 shellacking at Mercer. The Bears won an FCS playoff …

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Blue Hose on march to recovery

By MONTE DUTTON Cincere Gill (0) (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Perhaps, at last, a change is going to come at Presbyterian College. It was a precipitous fall, and it has been a tortuous climb from a football abyss. In hindsight, Presbyterian College’s timid advancement to NCAA Division I, Football Championship Subdivision, and then its …

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County Signs: All roads lead to Wilder Stadium

By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Here’s a prediction that doesn’t require a soothsayer. Wilder Stadium will be packed when Laurens comes to town Friday night. Clinton’s band will be pumping out its knockoff of the Notre Dame fight song. Laurens will mimic Ohio State. It will be hot, with thunder in the …

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