By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I watch game after game on TV or listen on radio and hear the same word over and over and try not to use it, but there’s no way around it.Presbyterian College’s football season is unbelievable.The Blue Hose detonated Morehead (Ky.) State, 41-0, on Saturday afternoon at …
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Rams routed in 76-3 PC romp
By MONTE DUTTON Zach Switzer (5) scored three touchdowns (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Presbyterian College couldn’t possibly win its first two games. It began the season with upsets of Mercer and Furman. PC couldn’t possibly lose its next two games. Nope. The Hose throttled Erskine, 42-14, then demolished Bluefield, 76-3, on Saturday at Bailey …
Taming Lions is Clinton’s task
By MONTE DUTTON Zy Butler (18), Owen Glenn (10) and Angelo Cromer (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Before this season, Jeff Fruster stepped down after 10 seasons as head football coach at Daniel High School. He won three state championships (2020, ’21, ‘’22) and six straight region titles (2019-24). The new head man is Chris …
Life is but a Zoom, sh’boom, sh’boom
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Mother’s Finest is a funk rock band whose fame spread rapidly in the 1970s. I saw the Atlanta-based band play the Clinton Family YMCA. A couple years later, it played with Styx and Foghat at Greenville Memorial Auditorium. Dis go dis way / Dis go …
It’s a grumpy week for Clemson, Carolina fans
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I have a generally positive view of the football programs at both Clemson and South Carolina. I like to watch the games on TV. I watched Georgia Tech edge the Tigers before I drove over to Bailey Memorial Stadium on Saturday to watch PC beat Erskine. I had Vanderbilt’s victory …
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The Blue Hose beat goes on
By MONTE DUTTON Collin Hurst tosses a strike (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Collin Hurst puts a little extra on his throws the same way a pitcher does in baseball. Hurst is a redshirt sophomore from Davie, Fla. He’s from Davie, Davie, Fla., and he’s king of the wild frontier. In Saturday night’s 42-14 victory …
The little team that can
By MONTE DUTTON Dominic Kibby (PC photo) Click here. What is the anatomy of an upset? What is the anatomy of two? How has Presbyterian College, which doesn’t award football scholarships, managed to begin the season with consecutive victories over Mercer and Furman, both of which do? Steve Englehart says he’s just an old-fashioned kind …
Good times, great oldies, the Devils and the deep blue sea
By MONTE DUTTON Keith Richardson won six state championships and 239 games as Clinton head coach (photo courtesy John Clayton). Click here. Many times I have expressed the opinion that my life is seldom mediocre. Either everything goes right, or everything goes wrong. That’s not the way life is. It’s just the way it seems. …
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Paladins take down Tribe as Blue Hose step up
By MONTE DUTTON Ian Williams drilled three field goals (Furman photo). Click here. Anything doesn’t often happen, but it certainly can. I spent Friday and Saturday surprised in various degrees. I expected Clinton to win the Laurens County championship in high-school football, but not 50-0 over Laurens. I expected Furman to start the season with …
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Timmons Arena is something else
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. It is glittering and bright, this brand-new Timmons Arena. On a campus of stately brick buildings and picturesque fountains, Furman University’s reimagined basketball arena more closely resembles the fountains. A little of the Williamsburg architecture remains on the sides, but from the outside, the edifice is overwhelmingly …
Nightrider's Lament 