"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)
(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 Have you noticed that height has been replaced by length in the lexicon of basketball broadcasters?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. …
Continue reading Furmanology: Paladins suffer softball sweep but success abounds elsewhere
(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 …
J.P. Pegues was first-team All-SoCon and the 2023 conference tournament MVP. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Furman is unlikely to be picked first in the Southern Conference’s next preseason men’s basketball poll. The Paladins’ first, second, third and fifth leading scorers have entered the NCAA transfer protocol. The four – J.P. Pegues, Marcus Foster, Alex …
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Back when dinosaurs walked the earth, long before one could drive a stolen car coast to coast on his “device,” kids used to play games such as trying to get a peer to believe something ridiculous. Once, while playing golf, I got a chum to believe that Atlanta Braves pitcher …
Continue reading County Signs: Clinton softball can’t buy a break
(PC photo) Click here. The nation of Presbyterian College sports, comparatively small in the overall pantheon, was stretched a little thin for Greenville’s Fluor Field on Wednesday evening. The overwhelming majority of the 2,744 watching Clemson play PC in baseball were wearing orange. Some Blue Hose parents and Greenvillians likely stopped by the minor-league Fenway …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: No magic for Hose at Fluor Field
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Who knew the last of the basketball would be at Presbyterian College? The Blue Hose women’s basketball team is playing Sacred Heart of Fairfield, Conn., in the NCAA Tournament’s play-in game. PC, the fifth seed in the Big South, swept through the tournament. The Pioneers of the not usually pioneerish …
Continue reading County Signs: Basketball miraculously lives
Mara Neira (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. In the small town of Clinton, some folks are aghast that the local college has such a tough path to the women’s basketball championship. Why must the Blue Hose have to be in a play-in? And, if they manage to defeat Sacred Heart, next is the No. 1 …
Continue reading County Signs: Hose get ready for taste of bigs
Owen Pridgen homered twice for the Raiders. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The high-school action was hot and heavy Monday in Laurens County again where, miraculously, it didn’t rain. Me? I wanted to be out at the diamond, but, until a payment got auto-deposited, it was too late for hitting the road, I couldn’t afford …
Continue reading County Signs: Raiders, Red Devils come back in tandem
(Furman photo) Click here. Away from the bright lights of Harrah’s Cherokee Arena, a great runner made second-team All-America status, and Furman lost a one-run softball game and a tennis match at home to Wake Forest. Furman rallied for two runs in the seventh inning but came up short in a 3-2 defeat versus Jacksonville …
Continue reading Furmanology: Softball falls again in Athens
Jordan Hudson was stout on the hill. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. All was well at Laurens 55 on Thursday as the Raiders swept to victories in baseball and boys’ tennis. Behind a strong performance from lefthanded starter Jordan Hudson, Laurens bettered nearby rival Greenwood, 4-2, at Ed Prescott Field. Third baseman Coleman Coker’s sacrifice …
Continue reading County Signs: Raiders roll in baseball, tennis
