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 …
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‘Piercing’ Upstate’s armor
By MONTE DUTTON Jonah Pierce (Monte Dutton photos) Jonah Pierce is a redshirt senior from Sanford, Fla., on the Presbyterian College basketball team. A knee injury cost him most of the 2024-25 season. He is back with a vengeance hidden by a perpetual smile on his face. Pierce didn’t beat USC Upstate, 86-77, by himself …
Bowled over, as usual
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. My God. I’ve had an addiction to college bowl games since I was in grade school. They’re not the same, but the games must go on because ESPN says so. As long as Duke’s Mayonnaise (which I love) ponies up, a 5-7 Mississippi State can play an 8-4 Wake Forest, …
Team effort dooms Bears, 74-72
By MONTE DUTTON Ben Vander Wal (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Imagine a basketball game in which one team, the victorious one, leads for 32 minutes, 45 seconds, but never by more than nine points. Furman’s 74-72 victory over Mercer, the first Southern Conference game for both teams, was a harbinger of what lies ahead. …
Nationwide search finds PC’s new coach nearby
By MONTE DUTTON Matt Rahl (PC photo) Presbyterian College announced the results of its “nationwide search” on Monday morning. Matt Rahl is the choice of Director of Athletics Dee Nichols – one would think with the advice and consent of select others – to succeed Steve Englehart as head football coach of the Blue Hose. …
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A bowl a day keeps basketball away
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. First of all, there are not too many bowl games. Let’s clear that up right away. The appropriate number is not what I want to see. It’s how many it takes to fill all ESPN programming. If ESPN wants San Juaquin Polytechnic to play the Southeast Vermont Syrup Makers in …
Song lyrics move me on
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I don’t think I’ve done this every year – maybe not even last year when I was blissfully unaware I was a few days away from being rushed to the hospital – but it has been a common practice of mine for at least a couple decades to send out …
Devils sweep girls’ games, Raiders seize boys’
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The county’s public-school rivals played a lively doubleheader at Clinton High School, and both meetings – they played last week at Laurens – were fun and full of action. Clinton’s girls’ basketball team, ranked at the top of Class 2A by state coaches, won both games, as …
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Furman preps for SoCon on a tear
(Furman photo) Click here. Sunday afternoon’s basketball game at Timmons Arena was an affair of fits and starts, streaks and slumps. The second half was, anyway. Redshirt sophomore Asa Thomas scored a career-best 25 points and freshman Alex Wilkins added 23 and a career-high eight rebounds to lead Furman to its fifth consecutive victory with …
This time CSU takes on Furman men
Cooper Bowser (21), Ben Vander Wal (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Furman’s basketball teams appear to be coming together at the same. They’re jelling. They’re coalescing. They’re bonding. They’re thickening. On Friday night at Buccaneer Fieldhouse, Pierre Curtis’s women won for the fourth time in five games. The night before, Bob Richey’s men won its …
Nightrider's Lament 