"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 Mike Bothwell, the man of a thousand expressions (Elena Davidson photo) Click here. It’s Saturday morning, and somehow it’s nearly 11, and I’ve been up since 8:30 after getting as much as I could on last night’s one-point loss to Gardner-Webb by Presbyterian and inserting more details. I updated it this morning. …
Continue reading Ruminations on what makes Furman special and PC not
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ On Wednesday, I pronounced myself unfit to go to ballgames. I went to one Tuesday night, but whether by the last throes of shingles, my horror at the shooting in Kansas City or watching the unexpected loss of the Clinton High boys, I didn’t feel well. By no means …
Continue reading The old, gray track just ain’t what she used to be
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Presbyterian College is going to be playing basketball in a little while. I vowed, having experienced what happens when one insists on writing about ballgames when one is sick, I was not going out to ballgames again until this shingles has run its course. Yet every day I think …
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants The National Football League is fantastic at playoff time. Early in the season, the best players look rusty, as if they didn’t play in exhibition games. In most cases, this is because they didn’t. To summarize, at the beginning of the regular season, most all the teams looked like …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants School was rained out Tuesday. Basketball games were rained out. They’re contested inside. This is an e-learning day, which I suppose anyone who e-learns could do by reading this. I’d humbly recommend John Steinbeck. They’ll e-learn more from the late great. The obvious choice for a basketball game …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ I would have liked to be in Frisco. I’ve got a lot of friends in the area, and at least one who would have let me sleep on his couch. All I would have needed was some gas and spending money. I could’ve not paid my taxes for …
Continue reading Mainly thinking again about what might’ve been
(Pixabay photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ I love watching football. I loved playing football. I just wasn’t any good at it. Yet still I study those who are good at it. Either it’s weird or it’s natural. I’m addicted. Why else would I be noticing that even though Bowling Green has nothing to do with bowling, and neither …
By MONTE DUTTON Furman defense captures a would be Moc(kingbird). (Furman photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ The University of Saint Thomas is in Saint Paul. Charleston Southern University is in North Charleston. A student attends the University of North Carolina Charlotte, but an athlete plays for Charlotte alone, as is true of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. The …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants It’s been quite the football weekend. I’m sort of overwhelmed. Clinton won. Laurens won. Furman won. Presbyterian won. (Oh, wait. This just arrived via Pony Express. King beat Laurens Academy, 26-22.) Thornwell lost, 59-0, to a team called the Anderson Cavaliers. Oh, the Saints are just starting out. …
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Shiflett says hello to the end zone. (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Life is full of surprises. Wonders, even. A few weeks ago, I noted that I hadn’t seen a close game all year, and I watched two of the best I’ve ever seen in the next two nights. As Harry Caray, used …
Nightrider's Lament 