"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 A Wilder Stadium Friday night (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Sports ain’t real, man. It’s better than real life. Most of my life has been devoted to it. I’ve relished that it’s not real. It’s microcosmic, perhaps in too many ways. I fear it’s becoming macrocosmic. True Grit isn’t a real depiction …
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By MONTE DUTTON Dixon Black homers for Wofford in the top of the first inning. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I was moderately excited when I drove over to Elton Pollock Field on Tuesday. Presbyterian was riding a four-game Big South winning streak. The previous game against Wofford seemed a distant memory. It drew nearer …
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By MONTE DUTTON Ryan Ouzts (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Every time another unexpected event happens, whether it lives in fame or infamy, compels me to start reciting again. One year the football team won a game one week by 65 points and lost the next week by 72. Last year a descendant of that …
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Brody Fahr (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Presbyterian College placed both men’s and basketball players on All-Big South teams. Softball won a nail-biter over Wofford, and baseball lost one to Western Michigan. Acrobatics and tumbling performed expertly versus King in Bristol, Tenn. Elton Pollock’s Blue Hose took a lead after trailing by three runs early, but …
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By MONTE DUTTON Ben Vander Wal launches a three. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Gosh, it was glorious. Packed house. Timmons Arena rocking. Band playing. Young women dancing about. The Paladins gallantly resisted the onslaught of Terriers yapping about and dispatched them, 82-67, on Saturday afternoon. If you want to go literal, the neighboring rivals, Furman …
Marcus Foster scores over Wofford's Kyle Filewich. (Elena Davidson photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Wofford College is a pesky rival. The Southern Conference’s remarkably similar Upstate members warily eye each other as if they are gunfighters squaring off at high noon in a town not big enough for the both of them. In truth, Furman (15-13, 9-6 SoCon) …
(Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman beat Wofford in something. That is an inaccurate and overwrought observation, particularly from the possessor of a Furman degree, but the Paladins’ 64-51 women’s basketball upset of the Terriers at Timmons Arena sure came in handy, given recent Wofford victories in football and women’s basketball. In point of fact, Furman leads …
By MONTE DUTTON Furman couldn't get the crucial stops. (Elena Davidson photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ SPARTANBURG – When Furman plays Wofford, basketball is like a box of chocolates. One never knows what one is going to get. Oh, wait, it’s more than basketball. A football game comes to mind. The Terriers made a gooey mess of the …
By MONTE DUTTON J.P. Pegues (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Bob Richey and his band of Dins are playing Spartanburg on Saturday at 6 p.m. It’s a one-night stand at Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium. Thrills! Chills! Gangs of screaming lads wearing khakis and light-blue button-downs! And tastefully dressed lasses, tossing all decorum aside. But I stereotype. …
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Head coach Pierre Curtis (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ SPARTANBURG – Wofford and Furman played a women’s basketball game on Saturday that looked like it was played outdoors, whereas, Richardson Indoor Stadium is titularly not. It was cold out there. Wofford was cold. Furman was colder, and the Terriers won, 69-51. The Paladins fired their first 17 …
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