"Why do they [write] for their money? Why do they [work] for short pay? They ain't getting nowhere and they're losing their share. They must have gone crazy back there." — Michael Burton (paraphrased)
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I think my favorite UFL team is the Birmingham Stallions. This ranks on the personal totem pole at about the same level as my favorite team in the Premier League. I have nothing against either. I just don’t have room for an infinite variety of sports and …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: PC sets baseball record on Gamecocks’ big day
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. I conducted some web research and have confirmed that Connecticut’s Donovan Clingan is not a Klingon, though, in fairness, I did find some disreputable site that claimed he was, as well as Purdue’s Zach Edey and N.C. State’s D.J. Burns. The Wolfpack had quite a run. I can’t …
Continue reading Furmanology: No baseball … but lacrosse wins
By MONTE DUTTON Eli Lazio (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. While waiting for the men’s Final Four games, which didn’t commence till 6 p.m., and while monitoring electronically local games, I enjoyed a documentary on William F. Buckley and a Randolph Scott western. The day began with breakfast at Steamers, which now only serves it …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: McDaniel holds line for PC comeback
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Caitlin Clark is great. So is women’s basketball. But the women’s game and the men’s are not the same. They may be equally entertaining. Clark may be the greatest women’s player ever, but she and Pete Maravich – or Michael Jordan or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or LeBron James – …
Continue reading Furmanology: On Caitlin and tennis’s mastery of El Cid
By MONTE DUTTON Alaura Sharp coached the PC women for six seasons. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Here’s where Presbyterian College basketball stands. Quinton Ferrell remains the men’s basketball coach, coming off the best of his five seasons. Though finishing with a 14-19 record, the Blue Hose played in the Ro College Basketball Invitational in …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: Sharp moves on; baseball, softball win
By MONTE DUTTON Beneath this placid exterior (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. When I was a freshman at Furman, when the Colts were still in Baltimore, the Paladins in Sirrine Stadium and Johnny Carson still on TV, I experienced the rites of passage that most young people face when they no longer have parental supervision. …
Continue reading Furmanology: Meanwhile, in the current century
J.P. Pegues scans the lane. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s ironic that as Furman rebuilds its arena, it is going to be rebuilding its men’s basketball team. It’s remarkable how well Bob Richey has managed to keep his teams together. Maybe this is the year the law of averages catch up. Kids from Christy …
Brett Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. A high percentage of people who attended a funeral and wrote about it mentioned the weather. For the record, it was drizzly and overcast at Fort Jackson National Military Cemetery when Jim McLaurin took his mortal bow. I saw no hidden meaning. The poet laureate of the working …
Continue reading County Signs: Figures that it began with a funeral
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Click here. I lost a buddy and a traveling companion when Jimmy Mac died on Friday the 15th, which must be bad luck in March this year, no doubt a result of Leap Year. I feared for his health in the back of my mind. Suppressed it, a shrink might …
By MONTE DUTTON Eels hover above Paris Mountain. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I thought well, gee whiz, why not just start the season? Saturday was the first one in the autumn when it’s not too hot. Except it was March 16. Fluffy clouds slowly crossed the sky, northeast, as if they constituted an armed …
