"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)
Trevon Reddish-Rhone (left) and Kory Mincy sweep the weekly Big South honors. (PC photo) Click here. Both Presbyterian College basketball teams enter the Hercules Tires Big South Conference Basketball Championship as long shots. Pretty dangerous long shots. Presbyterian (17-14, 8-8 BSC) is the fifth seed in the women’s bracket and opens on Thursday at 2 …
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Mojo Nixon's head still bobbling at 6:08. (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Oh, what a night it must have been at Templeton Center. It may have been the best night of the season for Presbyterian men’s basketball, at the very least since the season opener at Vanderbilt, and this was in the Big South. The SEC …
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Mylayja Thompson (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges The latest high-school basketball results were about par for the course. Clinton won big. Laurens Academy won. Laurens High and Presbyterian College didn’t. John Gardner’s CHS girls pounded Chester (3-12, 1-6), 64-16, for their ninth consecutive victory. McKenzie Clark and Mylayja Thompson each scored 11 points, and Bryanna Belton …
Marquis Barnett (PC photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ The Point was too High for both Presbyterian College basketball teams on Saturday. High Point defeated Quenton Ferrell’s men on Saturday night at Qubein Center after the Panthers took care of Alaura Sharp’s women at Templeton Center in the afternoon. With 2:28 remaining, Jonah Pierce’s bucket gave Presbyterian (10-14, 1-7) …
PJay Smith (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ After a couple raucous road games, Furman returns to Timmons Arena with righting an old wrong in mind. The Paladins have won six of their last seven games leading up to Sunday’s nationally televised game against UNC Greensboro at 2 p.m. on ESPNU. Furman (12-10, 6-3 SoCon) won a thrilling …
Sydney Ryan (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ East Tennessee State utterly dominated the second half and put Furman away, 79-54, in women’s basketball on Thursday evening at the Bucs’ Brooks Gym in Johnson City. It took a three-pointer by ETSU’s Courtney Moore to give the Buccaneers a 34-30 halftime advantage. The façade of competitiveness ended in the …
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 …
Clinton, South Carolina, Thursday, September 20, 2018, 11:40 a.m. I had jury duty but wasn’t selected. Since every day, I put together arrest reports and talk to law enforcement officers about various crimes, I suppose this is hardly a surprise. In this part of the state, Florence, which hit the Carolinas coast as a hurricane …
Clinton, South Carolina, Thursday, May 10, 2018, 10:40 a.m. Spring sports are winding down. Here in town, and throughout this end of Laurens County, all we have left are some girls competing in the state track meet and boys playing for the state tennis championship. Even football, for which the town is known, rises and …
Clinton, South Carolina, Saturday, April 14, 2018, 1:30 p.m. Friday was incomplete on the sports front, that is, unless going to a gathering to support youth tennis counts as sports. It didn’t seem particularly sporting. The food was great. A bunch of people got together to play their guitars and sing songs. I talked with …
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