"Why do they [write] for their money? Why do they [work] for short pay? They ain't getting nowhere and they're losing their share. They must have gone crazy back there." — Michael Burton (paraphrased)
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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(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 …
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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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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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 …
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 …
By MONTE DUTTON Camden Finley connects. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The latest of life’s ironies occurred to me Thursday morning as I augmented, updated, corrected and reposted Wednesday’s crop. NIL (name, image and likeness) provides college athletes monetary compensation, yet the world “nil” means nothing. Thus could the athlete at an unmonied institution say, …
By MONTE DUTTON Coleman Coker drove in the winning run. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I was up until the wee hours, which are not that wee for me, failing to get Tuesday night’s results posted. Folks have more wi-fi than wife problems nowadays. Oh, wait. I don’t have a wife. It could be that …
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By MONTE DUTTON Zane McLendon has that sinking feeling. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. A Furman release revealed that the Paladins have signed two “rising juniors.” I thought, Thank God, they aren’t falling juniors. Yes, I know, “rising” refers to someone in the next class. It’s spring, and those two promising athletes are sophomores now, …
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By MONTE DUTTON (File photo) Click here. I went through college in a period of little unrest. I read about the 1960s and watched it all on TV as a boy, but the biggest threat to the Furman campus in the late 1970s and early 1980s was the invasion of Citadel cadets the night before …
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Nightrider's Lament 