By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Doug Allison is not retiring without a fight. In his 31st and final season as men’s soccer coach at Furman, he has taken the Paladins where they have never been before. And they are taking him. It’s not often that a men’s soccer team gets higher billing than …
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It’s the best holiday of the year
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Thanksgiving was great, which has not always been the case. It’s my favorite holiday. All good. None of the pettiness that accompanies other celebrations. Everyone gets along. It was great to reacquaint myself with the five kids of my nephew and his wife. A rough year began with a month …
The players get longer; the names get shorter
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I have concluded that actual names are going out of fashion, particularly among the showboats who tell us all about them on television. The Most Valuable Player in the NBA is SGA. Do fans even know his full name? I didn’t. I never hear it. SGA slams! A steal by …
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Golfers deployed to Oklahoma
(Furman graphic) Click here. Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain … Norman is where the Furman women’s golf team is headed for regional play at Jimmie Austin Oklahoma University Golf Course on May 5-7. The Paladins, who are the No. 11 seed in Norman, are part of a 12-team regional field that …
Furmanology: What a tangled web they weave
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. I don’t understand why so many FCS teams want to move up to FBS, though it wouldn’t break my heart if some of those state schools from the sparsely populated northern mountains and prairies would take the ski jump.Oh, wait. It could have something to do with money, …
County Signs: Pitch and catch for now
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I washed my face in the morning dew / Bathed my soul in the sun / I washed my face in the morning sun / And kept on moving along Of course, Tom T. Hall wrote it. He didn’t have a morning of 7-on-7s at Clinton High …
Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and money
By MONTE DUTTON (Caleb Gilbert photo) Click here. I’ve mentioned it before, but among baseball’s many virtues is the incidence of the unexpected. I’ve seen a zillion games and listened to a bajillion. That’s not even counting the softball. Technology multiplies. On Sunday night, I was surfing three college games, one major-league, the end of …
County Signs: At the mercy of the video gods
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Every single time I hear someone say, “I would (submit, suggest, etc.) …,” my mind conjures up, unsaid (usually), Hell, I won’t tell nobody, go ahead and (submit, suggest, etc.) it. Many of my colleagues in the Fourth Estate – I’m so far out I have to …
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County Signs: Spangler takes Clinton helm
By MONTE DUTTON Peyton Spangler closes a parley on the junior-varsity mound. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. As has been widely rumored and thinly dismissed, Sean McCarthy is no longer head baseball coach at Clinton High School. As has been widely anticipated, Peyton Spangler is head baseball coach of the Red Devils. He is known …
Odds are trouble’s on the way
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. We’ll all know that gambling –oh, I’m sorry, it’s not gambling, it’s merely gaming – has completely taken over when folks can put money on the outcome of a Trump trial. Maybe even a parlay. Gambling is one of many areas of life that seems to be relentlessly …
Nightrider's Lament 