By MONTE DUTTON The captains meet while broadcasters from both teams go live with the coin flip (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. After road trips to Greenville, S.C., on Thursday night and Clinton, S.C., on Friday night, I’m still playing catch-up. It took most of Saturday writing about two football games, processing the photos and …
Red Devils win 6th straight over Raiders
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn threw the winning touchdown pass with two seconds remaining (Monte Dutton photos). Click here, CLINTON, S.C. – A grueling road trip home – after a similarly taxing down-and-back-up to Furman – was, incredibly, worth every minute and mile. The previous time I saw Clinton High School in action was an …
The lights are brighter at Furman
By MONTE DUTTON Anderson brought a considerable crowd (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. GREENVILLE, S.C. – The night has never shone more brightly at Paladin Stadium than on Thursday night. The lights are brand-new. Furman proved on Thursday night it can be good. The Paladins are not there yet. A 20-3, opening-night football victory over …
Looking forward to a deluge
By MONTE DUTTON A triumphant kickoff at Unity Stadium erupts with fireworks, cheering fans, and football excitement. Click here. From time to time, the world is perfectly described by a three-word Jackson Browne song title from the 1970s. “Before the Deluge.” From time to time is gradually becoming all the time about everything. Thirty years …
Hopes are high for (Rosman) Tigers
By MONTE DUTTON Rosman slipped past West-Oak in a practice game (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The Country Skillet was jammed late Friday afternoon. I was the only person there who didn’t know everyone else there, and they were all talking to everyone else. I sat there, reading about Rosman High’s football team in the …
Rosman, just up the road
By MONTE DUTTON Acapulco Mexican Restaurant welcomes diners beneath a colorful sunset in the Blue Ridge Mountains. (This is a bit exaggerated. Then again, it's a cartoon.) Click here. I awakened recently thinking about running backs. I certainly never was one. Neither was my brother, though he would have been better suited. Football has many …
Baseball is more like religion
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Ever since I moved to the mountains, I have thought about going to see the Asheville Tourists play. If I had been a betting man, I would not have predicted I’d be sitting at HomeTrust Park on Friday night. I also wouldn’t have predicted I’d get so …
The sameness of the news
By MONTE DUTTON Two identical news anchors deliver unchanging breaking news. Click here. I’m getting old. I am old. It follows that I am set in my ways. The evening news. I like to watch it, but it’s getting harder. The anchors could be AI-generated. They’re not. There apparently is a Tom Llamas. Wikipedia says …
That place is so crowded, nobody goes there anymore
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. It’s impossible for me not to pay attention to auto racing, since I’ve been going to races since my earliest memory and spent two decades writing about it full-time. I don’t watch all the races, and I don’t often watch all of those races. I’ve been guilty of picking up …
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Summer springs eternal
By MONTE DUTTON The one I attended was not so boisterous. It was fun, or else I wouldn't have been there. Western Carolina's Kerwin Bell It was good to be out and about Tuesday.The Southern Conference held its football media day in Greenville, S.C., giving me another opportunity to review the various routes from my …
Nightrider's Lament 