By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) The last time I felt like this in June, I was in Seattle. The entire past week has been spent in days which my old man used to say “ain’t good for nothin’ ‘cept sleeping.” The more specific description of weather trends is global “weirding,” not “warming.” Warming is just a …
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You can’t hide money
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) Spanning the globe, making observations regarding the constant variety of sport, the heartbreak of psoriasis, the pain of arthritis, and the flammability of money when it’s laying around. … If this isn’t a mess, it’ll do till the mess gets here. Few spectacles are more pleasing than watching Ja Morant play …
Clark cashes in Wyndham points
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) Baseball games are too long. College football games are too long. NASCAR races are too long. Soccer matches are too long. Why aren’t golf tournaments too long? Because it is the nature of the game. I wouldn’t want a round of the United States Open to be nine holes. Tastes of …
The racer once known as Wonderboy
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) Many of my favorite times as a sportswriter occurred during experiences I didn’t have to share with anyone. … … NASCAR race mornings in the press box, chatting and sipping coffee with Benny Parsons or Buddy Baker. … … Sharing a golf cart with Jimmy Spencer or Randy LaJoie. I’d have …
Dadburn it to tarnation
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay)3 Confound it. Suffering succotash. Great Caesar’s Ghost. Wee-doggie. Someone has hacked my main Facebook. Bearing the name of someone with whom I went to school some 50-some-odd years ago, she – it could be a he posing as a she – has been messaging people and claiming (he, she, quite likely …
When Jim Ed rocked the graveyard
By MONTE DUTTON Fenway Park, Boston (Pixabay photo) When Clinton High nailed down the Class 3A state baseball championship on May 23, I wrote the 5-4 victory over Hanahan was played in front of the largest crowd I’d ever seen for a high-school baseball game, at least in Clinton. This was on my mind for …
A long time ago, at an age far, far away
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Duty called me to Greenwood on Tuesday. Specifically, it called me to the UPS Store to return some equipment to its provider. Options were about equally limited. I could drive to Spartanburg, Simpsonville or Greenwood, all about equidistant. I chose the city across the lake because I’d rather drive a …
Readin,’ writin’ and watchin’
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) The weekend was uneventful but worthwhile. I spent most of my time writing my next, and 10th, novel, The Graduate Transfer, which doesn’t get italics until it’s published. I already had 19,000 words, but now the 19,000 are different ones (as if most weren’t already). I decided to use the original …
‘Go do that voodoo that you do so well’
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Rules of the sportswritin’ road: If a coach tells you he doesn’t know what his team’s record is, it ain’t good. The truth is seldom more evident than when being vehemently denied. If a ball is placed between two yard-lines, the scoreboard operator will estimate the farther line for the …
Paladins make smooth segue with Curtis hire
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman graphic) I was thinking Thursday night that the best course for Furman women’s basketball would be to promote Pierre Curtis to succeed Jackie Carson as head coach. Completely independent of my thoughts, athletics director Jason Donnelly arrived at the same conclusion. I don’t know Curtis – I’ve exchanged pleasantries, perhaps even …
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Nightrider's Lament 