By MONTE DUTTON When I awakened this morning, nature called. Nothing unusual about that. It’s my interior alarm clock. I keep forgetting to buy a new one. Last night I spent an hour talking with an old NASCAR chum. The first Darlington race of the season was Sunday. My friend and I laughed at stories …
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Short-term hoops fatigue
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. “Six Days on the Road (and I’m A-Gonna Make It Home Tonight)” was written by Earl Green and Carl Montgomery. It’s my favorite trucker song. I don’t have a lot. A man who drives pickups doesn’t count as a trucker. I was, however, on the road for six days. I …
Inevitability in real time
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. On Monday, Presbyterian College honored Steve Englehart for being the national football coach of the year. On Tuesday, Englehart reportedly accepted the job at West Georgia University in Carrollton, Ga. This, of course, is no surprise. This is what happens at PC after winning seasons. Dustin Kerns had a winning …
A bad way to start the week
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. In 1991, Rodney King said, “Can’t we all just get along?” In Matthew 5:19, Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” I don’t like Mondays. They make me catch up when I don’t want to. I spend most of the time on weekends …
Good times, great oldies, the Devils and the deep blue sea
By MONTE DUTTON Keith Richardson won six state championships and 239 games as Clinton head coach (photo courtesy John Clayton). Click here. Many times I have expressed the opinion that my life is seldom mediocre. Either everything goes right, or everything goes wrong. That’s not the way life is. It’s just the way it seems. …
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Thoughts that have infected me recently
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Latest trends in the world of sports: Length and size have replaced height and weight. Groups have been replaced by rooms (“the quarterback room”) that I suspect do not actually exist. Some words have flip-flopped meanings to the point where anything goes. Citizens want governments to be “transparent” so they …
A visit to another county
By MONTE DUTTON Not Stonehenge (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I’ve not been a globetrotter. I’ve not even been a county trotter. Or a trotter at all. I did drive to Newberry on Wednesday, though, for a long overdue visit with a friend. Dr. Jodie Peeler, communications program director at Newberry College, and I had …
Fans can like what they want
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. My opinion is grounded in most of a lifetime of sportswriting. It’s not wrong to hope others like you do well. What’s wrong is to limit an activity, sport or career only to people like you. Bubba Wallace’s victory at the Brickyard 400 made me ponder this topic. I have …
Trying to keep my head above water
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. So … … I’ve quipped for months that I hoped to live long enough to see the sale of my land go through so that I could make a new start in a new place and become successful again. It’s not as much of a joke as it used to …
The wide, wild world of John Irving
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. This isn’t the first time I’ve noted that my favorite novelists – Larry McMurtry, Elmore Leonard, Pat Conroy, et al. – have been dying off. Given my own advancing age, there’s no getting around it. Over the years, I’ve read most of John Irving’s great novels: The Cider House Rules, …
Nightrider's Lament 