By MONTE DUTTON The "good game, man" line (Monte Dutton photos) What’s not to like about playing a little ball on a beautiful morning? High school football is one of many arts of the possible. They don’t put the pads on till August. The High School League lets them play pitch-and-catch, and they make a …
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The next level
By MONTE DUTTON Jalen Slawson in the SoCon Tournament (Elena Davidson photo). There’s an old story, told cheerfully by both men, about Les Robinson, then head coach at The Citadel, asking Furman’s Joe Williams out to lunch when he was passing through Greenville. “Can’t,” Williams said, “gotta go to graduation.” “They don’t even make me …
What to do when it rains
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 …
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 …
