Trey Hedden threw for 358 yards (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. It’s going to be an exciting season at Paladin Stadium specifically and in the Southern Conference in general. Look out there. There is no Davidson of old. The lads had best be ready each week. The names, images and likenesses do not rival Texas …
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‘Ain’t no place for no poor boy like me’
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. No wonder the kids are pissed off. For at least two generations, the politicians who run this country have paid cruel lip service to the notion that it’s important to pass down to the young a world worth living in. Old folks like me aren’t going to pay for trillions …
County Signs: If commercials were real …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Do you ever live in commercial world?If I ever go to New York again, I’m not going to the Empire State Building, Yankee Stadium or the Metropolitan Opera. I’m going to find that deck with the Statue of Liberty in the background. That’s where the action is.Several meds cause an …
Furman, like Frampton, comes alive
Jackson Pryor looks it in (Furman photo). Click here. CHARLESTON – Furman freshman quarterback Trey Hedden portrayed Thomas Edison in the Paladins’ miraculous 17-16 victory over The Citadel on Saturday. A light came on, and Hedden wasn’t the only Paladin equipped with a bulb. Hedden, from Tampa, Fla., found Jackson Pryor -- yes, freshman of …
Furmanology: Hits and misses at Fourth funnies
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Click here. I’m no expert at Fourth of July celebrations. I’ve been to a few ballgames. For many years, I wrote about a stock-car race thereabouts. Mainly I just hear the bombs bursting in air. I miss the rocket’s red glare. Small towns have more sense. One of my familiar …
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Raiders get a breakthrough
(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Apart from Clinton, where the Red Devils ran Chester out of the building, the rule in Laurens County on Tuesday was split decisions. The big news was the Laurens boys’ first Region 2-4A victory since 2021-22. The Raiders split. The Crusaders split. The Presbyterian men and women play on Wednesday, men …
I’ve been a fool
https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain … -- lyrics by Paul Anka In the spring, when I shut down Laurens County Sports and Furman All the Time, and eliminated monthly fees, I knew it would require help from the readership. From the very first article here, a message …
Paladins wary but confident
By MONTE DUTTON Wyatt Hughes at Kennesaw (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Clay Hendrix isn’t a hard man to figure. He’s a football coach by trade. He matches Steve Earle’s description of a road in Oklahoma: “straighter than a preacher, longer than a memory.” It’s not a “Nowhere Road,” though. It’s a road to success, paved by …
Waldron reaps rewards of a tennis life
By MONTE DUTTON Chuck Waldron's next stop is the S.C. Tennis Hall of Fame. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges I have known Chuck Waldron since we entered the first grade together. He has heard distant drums – okay, the thump-thump-thump of tennis balls bouncing nearby – for all the years since. Given his lifelong devotion to …
Pretty pictures on a hot day
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges On Saturday in the heat of the day, on one end of the K.C. Hanna turf, the Laurens Raiders got their chance to smile for the camera. Few took advantage. Football players prefer to look tough, as if they were imitating Ray Nitschke. No one smiles like Joe …
Nightrider's Lament 