Anna Morgan (Furman photo) Click here. Isn’t it amazing how big women’s basketball has become? Isn’t it amazing how important women have become in areas where they were not always so influential? In a way, basketball is just hand in hand with everything else … which is great. For instance, I have grown familiar by …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: PC splits softball twinbill with S.C. State
(PC photo) Click here. Sports gambling has been legal in the United Kingdom for all sports since 1960 and on horse racing for centuries. Breathes a TV-watching man or woman alive here who doesn’t know it’s been legal in North Carolina since March 11. It’ll probably infest us here in time. Remember when people used …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: Something about the Peach State
(PC photo) Click here. I haven’t seen anything near a full major-league baseball game on TV. Basketball has dominated my viewing time. Most of what I’ve noticed is the Phils’ Bryce Harper, whom I watched crash over a rail in one game and hit two homers in another. The Tigers, Pirates and Brewers are undefeated. …
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Furmanology: Dins pull a fast one on Clemson softball
Lauralee Scott (Furman photo) Click here. Writing out loud … well, not loud … I’m typing. All else being equal, shouldn’t women’s basketball players shoot at a higher percentage than men? The ball is smaller. The rim is the same size. Like most everyone else, I’ve fallen in love with women playing basketball. I never …
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County Signs: Spartanburg edges Clinton, 5-4
Carson Glenn (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Baseball terms come from a variety of origins. For instance, “on deck” refers to the next batter. The one after that is “in the hold,” not the hole. They were naval terms before baseball adopted them. It irks me that any time a player holds a bat in …
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County Signs: Name games and a Clinton comeback
Me-Me Smith delivers. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I see a lot of interesting names. Perhaps my favorite of the spring to date is Presbyterian College baseball player Rhogue Wallace. I’m partial to Clinton softball player Me-Me Smith. I think of a coach, perhaps even Joseph Terry, asking, “Hey, who wants to pitch?” “Me! Me! …
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Furmanology: Paladins suffer softball sweep but success abounds elsewhere
(Furman photo) Click here. Have you noticed that height has been replaced by length in the lexicon of basketball broadcasters? Players began positioning themselves at the elbows of the lane. The broadcasters are always developing new wrinkles. Writers, too, I suppose, but since we make use of a backspace button, it diversifies language a bit. …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: First two at GWU
(PC photo) Click here. In the immortal commercial words of Mike Krzyzewski, “Who needs championships when you can look at birds?” I’m starting to add words to the CBS March Madness theme. Everyone talks about the Big Dance. And the Sweet Sixteen. And the Elite Eight. And the Final Four. Why no love for the …
County Signs: Coker, Madden come through
Raiders came back, but Jordan Hudson wasn't around to see it. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Even when the weather is clear, a spring night has dampness in it. Parents and friends huddle in the shadows, some up against the fence in their foldable chairs, others standing back a bit, wearing caps and windbreakers, wishing …
County Signs: Familiar face at Thornwell
Daryl Smith with the Raiders (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. My life is taking a narrow focus. I just realized I don’t know who won last week’s NASCAR race. Why? The answer is obvious. Presbyterian College was pursuing a doomed women’s basketball dream. To paraphase Bill Murray, I hear there’s money in that gig. This …
Nightrider's Lament 