"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)
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Had Iowa won the women’s basketball championship on Sunday, Caitlin Clark might have been named a finalist to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate. She’s too young. It violates the Constitution. That doesn’t seem to stop anyone else these days. Iowa didn’t win the game Sunday. South …
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By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Caitlin Clark is great. So is women’s basketball. But the women’s game and the men’s are not the same. They may be equally entertaining. Clark may be the greatest women’s player ever, but she and Pete Maravich – or Michael Jordan or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or LeBron James – …
Continue reading Furmanology: On Caitlin and tennis’s mastery of El Cid
By MONTE DUTTON Beneath this placid exterior (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. When I was a freshman at Furman, when the Colts were still in Baltimore, the Paladins in Sirrine Stadium and Johnny Carson still on TV, I experienced the rites of passage that most young people face when they no longer have parental supervision. …
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(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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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 …
Continue reading Furmanology: Dins pull a fast one on Clemson softball
(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 Have you noticed that height has been replaced by length in the lexicon of basketball broadcasters?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 …
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