The Poconos Click here. I awakened on Sunday with a ferocious appetite and immediately jumped into my pants and headed to a drive-through. My dream was tiring. Let’s see. I drove the best car I ever owned – a 2000 Honda I eventually gave to charity -- to Pennsylvania, undoubtedly to cover a stock car …
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Things are tough all over
By MONTE DUTTON Asa Thomas (Furman photo) Click here. This Furman men’s basketball team is an enigma wrapped in a conundrum. To borrow from a nursery rhyme, when it is good, it is very, very good, and when it is bad, it is horrid. The Paladins have mostly weathered their injuries, but the reassembly is …
Two Devils and a Crusader line up for college
By MONTE DUTTON Garrison Vaughan (second from left) and family are all smiles (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Newberry, North Greenville and Carson-Newman are the latest beneficiaries of Laurens County football talent. Garrison Vaughan, Laurens Academy’s burly lineman, is joining the Wolves, whose 12-2 record last fall included three Division II playoff wins. Bryson Perrin …
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Furman weathers second-half storm
By MONTE DUTTON Cooper Bowser is back (Furman photo). Click here. What if they played a basketball game and no one came? What if it wasn’t allowed? The Furman men’s basketball game against Chattanooga was on Sunday at 1 p.m. The game was on national TV on ESPN2. Furman University is currently closed to the …
Red Devils keep rolling along
By MONTE DUTTON Nyterian Smith (3) (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s the end of January, and Clinton High’s basketball teams both have a two-game edge over the rest of Region 3-2A. According to the state coaches association, the girls have an edge over the rest of Class 2A. They both ran out on Friday …
Furman women withstand Samford, 70-62
By MONTE DUTTON Fourth straight SoCon win (Furman photo) Click here. Under Pierre Curtis's direction, Furman women's basketball is flexing its Southern Conference muscles. Lauren Bailey scored 15 points to lead a balanced Furman attack, and the Paladins rode a strong second-half defensive effort to beat Samford, 70-62, in women’s basketball Saturday afternoon at Pete …
Winthrop’s Duncomb drops 38 on Hose
By MONTE DUTTON Logan Duncomb (Winthrop photo) Click here. It was defense that set the stage for Winthrop’s 82-72 victory over Presbyterian in men’s basketball at Templeton Center on Saturday afternoon. All except for the Eagles’ Logan Duncomb. He provided the game with most of its offense, scoring 38 points, and checked almost all the …
Blue Hose in position to surge
By MONTE DUTT0N Quinton Ferrell (Monte Dutton photo) Jonah Pierce was dominant, but that was the general rule in Presbyterian’s 92-55 ransacking of Gardner-Webb in Boiling Springs, N.C., on Saturday. Pierce scored 20 points and grabbed 13 rebounds. Triston Wilson added 19 points and six assists. Jaylen Peterson scored 18 and Kahlon Hudson 17. Only …
Now’s when the fun begins
By MONTE DUTTON Ah, yes, the telltale extra digits of AI illustration. Click here. What a surprise. Furman and Wofford are surging in the Southern Conference men’s basketball race. Chattanooga and the Paladins were picked 1-2 in the preseason poll of SoCon coaches. On Wednesday, while Furman was knocking off the Mocs on the road, …
Where everybody knows your name …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Some play football because they love it. Some play because it runs in the family and is expected of them, some because girls seem to like it. Some like to hit and not be hit. Some just love to get after it. It has been Buddy Bridges’ frequent observation that …
Nightrider's Lament 