"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)
Jada Session (Monte Dutton photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ It’s been an uphill climb all season for first-year head coach Pierre Curtis, but the Furman women’s basketball team advanced modestly toward the summit in the regular season. The Paladins tip off the Ingles Southern Conference Tournament as the seventh seed, meaning that their 1:15 p.m. quarterfinal pits them …
Continue reading Furmanology: Women to open tourney Thursday; Pegues, Foster earn men’s plaudits
By MONTE DUTTON J.P. Pegues seeks an opening. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman has a week to get its groove back after falling to Mercer, 82-75, in the final game of the regular season in front of 2,457 at Timmons Arena on Saturday afternoon. The Paladins don’t have a Southern Conference Tournament game until next …
Malayja Thompson (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges It was the fairer sex that was better at playing basketball on Wednesday night. At Clinton High School, the girls’ team was winning its first-round playoff game over Southside. A couple miles away and across the railroad tracks, Presbyterian was polishing off UNC Asheville. However, in far Asheville, northward …
(PC photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants The blend point is underway between winter and spring sports at Presbyterian College. Basketball and wrestling wind down as tennis, lacrosse, softball, etc., begin their seasons. St. Peter’s University of Jersey City, N.J., visits Elton Pollock Field for a three-game, season-opening baseball series on Friday. The Blue Hose and Peacocks play on …
(Pixabay photo) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants What’s next in college athletics? Here’s a guess. Caleb Williams is skipping Southern California’s bowl game. Another NFL quarterback goes down. Williams signs with that team and starts next Sunday. That is against the rules. For now. Or … Williams transfers to Florida State. Undefeated? Quarterback out? Problem solved! Or … the …
Clinton, South Carolina, Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 12:07 p.m. Another year has come and gone. Fate chose mine to pass on the eighth day of April, which left me a week off a fool from the get-go. (The above was quite possibly the first time I have ever typed the word “get-go” without it being …
Between episodes of an irreverent short story, I’ve decided today to write about sports in this space, rationalizing it on the basis that what will be written forthwith is fictitious and exaggerated. ORCHESTRAL INTRO “Live from Grand Canyon Arena in Teaneck, New Jersey, it’s the finals of the Rust Belt Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament, matching …
Continue reading Various Absurdities of the Televised Sporting Life
His teammates were battling for their lives, and their school, and underdogs everywhere, and Joel Hartzinger was sitting on the bench, doing math. They got seven thousand students. We got just over a thousand if you count the grad school. Twenty five percent of ours play a sport. Most of them don’t win much. …
You want to know how big sports is? It supersedes language. That was a serious offense when I was in grade school. Where is the past tense of “fly,” not “flew”? Baseball, and in this instance I concede the game has a good reason. When a batter hits a fly ball, it’s easy to imagine …
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