By MONTE DUTTON Peroxide has agreed with the Raiders. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Things I’ve noticed in movies and TV: It never drizzles. Movies shot in a studio have rickety doors. Many times the bad guy or gal in modern movies is the one who smokes. In old movies, everyone smokes. The second coming …
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County Signs: Crazy and crazier
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s all the same. Sports. News. Weather. Music. Talk. Talk. Talk. Everything’s a talk show. Everybody’s got a podcast. So why am I writing this? So much seems micro, and so little seems macro. So much minutiae. So much of the obvious. Superstar curses teammate in tunnel …
Blue Hose Blurbs: There’s something about Wofford
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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Furmanology: Accustomed to an absent mind
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. On Saturday, I watched the closest finish in Kentucky Derby history. On Sunday, I watched the closest finish in NASCAR history. On TV, mind you. I’m not some globe-trotting bon vivant hiding behind a cloak of seeming poverty. I’m worse than a poor boy. I’m a poor old …
County Signs: Long ago in about the same place
By MONTE DUTTON Clinton head coach Corey Fountain at practice Monday (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. On Tuesday, I spent about an hour watching Clinton High School in a spring football practice. After taking more photos than I could possibly need, I walked across the field and decided not to leave. I sat down on …
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Blue Hose preserve a sweep
(PC photo) Click here. NORTH CHARLESTON --- Presbyterian College played Charleston Southern University three times in the lovely sport of baseball at the Buccaneers’ Nielsen Field. The Blue Hose won all three: Friday in a blowout, Saturday in a comeback and Sunday by comeback resistance. Click here. PC won the season’s first four games and …
Blue Hose Blurbs: PC reaches top of Big South heap
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. Saturday’s victory over Charleston Southern put Presbyterian in a tie for first place in the Big South Conference baseball standings for at least a day. It’s not like the Blue Hose just began the season hot, though they did. When Sunday’s game at Charleston Southern ends, PC will …
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Furmanology: But first, a bit of aged philosophy …
By MONTE DUTTON Evidence suggests the rain-shortened game was justified. (Furman photo) Click here. All is tangible, and all is not. Time, for instance. Precise. Measurable. Inviolable. Examined another way, it is not. For me, time crawls every morning, and then it gets faster and faster until late at night, when it runs out of …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: Baseball is in the hunt
By MONTE DUTTON Joel Dragoo (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. I suppose folks must know, but it just hasn’t spread around their consciousness yet. They’re preoccupied. PC baseball is a game out of first place in the Big South Conference. Yeah. Did you hear me? What? Click here. PC. It’s a game out of first …
County Signs: Beat Catawba Ridge … check
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. PROLOGUE Sometimes it rains. Sometimes it doesn’t. I like it better when Mother Nature makes up her mind. I’ve watched the weather. Laurens and Clinton have crucial high-school baseball games Friday night. The Raiders are (or by the time you read this, maybe were) undefeated in the …
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