"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 (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 …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: PC leaves feathers in its wake
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 …
Continue reading County Signs: Raiders, Red Devils jockeying for playoff position
(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. …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: Baseball pounds Winthrop … again
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 …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: Lots of excitement at spring football game
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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading County Signs: Nothing beats fun at the ballpark
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 …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. In advance of Friday night’s spring scrimmage, things are looking up for Presbyterian College football in Steve Englehart’s third season as head coach. It’s a big sky. The Blue Hose went 1-10 amid the wreckage left in the wake of Kevin Kelley’s only season as head coach. …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: PC to play 12 football games
By MONTE DUTTON Asher Goss fired a no-hitter. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The best thing about the baseball game at Ed Prescott Field on Wednesday night wasn’t the hot dogs. They’re good. Not as good as the ones at Whiteford’s Drive-In or Steamers. Slaw is an available condiment at those two spots, but hot …
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