A brave front afterward

By MONTE DUTTON Hugh Ryan skirmishes with South Carolina's Xavier Legette. (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ My lingering memory of South Carolina’s 47-21 victory over Furman wasn’t on the Williams-Brice Stadium surface. It was in the postgame media conference. Hugh Ryan, the Paladins’ much-decorated safety, sat there in anguished agony. He’d had a rough night. A lot …

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Paladins can’t corner Rattler

By MONTE DUTTON Xavier Stephens can't quite get there. (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ COLUMBIA – A disastrous ending to the first half opened the floodgates in South Carolina’s 47-21 victory on Saturday night at Williams-Brice Stadium. The Gamecocks’ well-traveled senior quarterback, Spencer Rattler, didn’t allow any opportunity for the Paladins to reverse that flow. The epitaph …

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Paladins dream of chicken dinner

By MONTE DUTTON Tyler Huff passed for 172 yards and rushed for 42 in the season opener. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ It’s improbable. It’s unlikely. It’s unexpected. Furman is playing South Carolina on Saturday night at 7:30. The Paladins have lost eight of their last nine visits to Columbia and 13 of their last 14 …

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