By MONTE DUTTON Zane McLendon (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. There’s some place I’d rather be. A ballpark. The plan was to get the taxes done – I wait till the last minute every year, dang me – in time to make a ballgame. I missed it. I would have had to go unshaved and …
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Furmanology: How the duffer relates
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Augusta National is hell in heaven. It’s Oz, complete with witches both good and wicked flitting about. It seemed as if the first- and second-place finishers, Scottie Scheffler and Ludvig Aberg, were the only players on the course who seemed to be enjoying himself. Tiger Woods was a …
Blue Hose Blurbs: PC leaves feathers in its wake
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. Of course, I pondered the Masters when I should have been finishing my taxes. No sweat. Still got a day. I was happy Scottie Scheffler won. He seems like an agreeable lug. I enjoyed watching Ludvig Aberg. Don’t ever change, kid. Golf needs someone to be the best …
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County Signs: Raiders, Red Devils jockeying for playoff position
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Baseball is a funny game. Joe Garagiola named a book that. The first person who said it was probably in the first game. Garagiola gets credit because he wrote the book. Kids go to baseball games to play. They’ll take up any vacant space and …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: Baseball pounds Winthrop … again
(PC photo) Click here. On Friday night, I watched football, and in a way, it felt like spring practice for me, too. I started out at Clinton High School watching baseball, and when I got home from the Presbyterian College spring football game, I had two sets of photos to process, select and lay out. …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: Lots of excitement at spring football game
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. One characteristic of the Presbyterian College spring football game was that it got better as it went along. Would that it be true of us all. I was there for most of it. I started out frantically shooting photos of the Clinton Red Devils baseball game. It …
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County Signs: Nothing close to mention
By MONTE DUTTON Brett Young was 3/3 at the top of the order. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Success was commonplace, but tension was hardly in the air. As a matter of fact, the riskiest aspect of my Friday was the decision to enjoy pregame carnitas at Fiesta Grande. Fortunately, Tex-Mex agreed with me, as …
Furmanology: No one is immune to time
3By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Click here. Maybe it’s the weight of all that pressure for all those years. Or an inability or unwillingness to cope with the ravages of time and injury. Tiger Woods looks unhappy. His expression seems set in a perpetual scowl. It’s tough to become accustomed to a view from the …
County Signs: Nothing beats fun at the ballpark
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. A high-school baseball game can be a many splendored experience. I saw a no-hitter, an inspirational one, twirled by Laurens’ Asher Goss on Wednesday night. That’s just part of the pleasure, though. I sat for a while with a lifelong acquaintance who played for the Raiders at …
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Furmanology: The Masters and me
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. The only time I ever went to Augusta National was when I was barely out of Furman. I wrote columns on Saturday and Sunday, and, man, am I confident they were horrible. I enjoyed it, but I think, even at the time, I thought once was enough. Never …
Nightrider's Lament 