By MONTE DUTTON Lots of flags fly above Wilder Stadium. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Have you ever seen a presentation of That Championship Season? It was a play and movie about old teammates getting together. That tale takes a dark turn. Nothing dark happened at Clinton High School on Saturday night. It was all …
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County Signs: Raiders make Rams earn it
By MONTE DUTTON Will Thompson had little room to rove against Hillcrest (photo courtesy John Clayton) Click here. Laurens waged a war of attrition on opening Friday night at K.C. Hanna Stadium, where Hillcrest defeated the Raiders, 16-0. Against the Rams, ranked fifth in Class 5A, Laurens had little chance after the 7:52 mark of …
What goes down must come up
Myion Hicks (Furman photo) Running backs. RBs. Arby’s. Click here. With a little more luck than last year, Furman will have the meat. The Paladins began last season with a stable of healthy, experienced running backs, but by season’s end, injuries had decimated the group, to the point the Paladins moved a wide receiver into …
County Signs: Raiders, Red Devils from a week’s distance
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Laurens football would be a question mark wrapped in an enigma, anyway. New coach with big name. Lots of new players, tough schedule. It’s not hard to figure out the Raiders are going to be better. It is to anticipate how much. Laurens has only faced another …
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County Signs: Crusaders go first
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. On Friday night, there will be football. Honest-to-gosh, bona-fide, counts in the standings, football. It’s eight-man football, and it’s in Greenwood, where Laurens Academy kicks off the whole county season with a visit to the den of the Cambridge Cougars. It’s sort of week double-zero. Clinton and Laurens open thunderously …
County Signs: Change is the rage
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Here’s my prediction for professional football. Because most of the starters play little, if at all, in exhibition games – and that’s exactly what they are, even though the NFL insists on “preseason games” – the beginning of the actual season will be sloppy. The middle of …
County Signs: Not how it’s said around here
By MONTE DUTTON Corey Fountain and the Red Devils had their first scrimmage rained out for the second straight year (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s impressive that everyone in the state knows how to pronounce my hometown’s name. Clinnun. Area broadcasters who call the university in Columbia “South Cuh-lina” know how to pronounce Clinton, …
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Furmanology: Hendrix is a crack shot
By MONTE DUTTON An injured Tyler Huff cheers on his mates at Chattanooga (Furman photo). Click here. One of the reasons I am frenzied about football is a need to restore the routine. It’s gotten to where I have to get up the nerve to turn on the TV. Astronauts are stranded in orbit. The …
Furmanology: Baseball from a distance
By MONTE DUTTON (Danny Barletta photo) Click here. Surfing the Super Regionals, I heard an announcer yell, “Wow!!! That ball went 110 miles off the bat!!!” I thought, Far out. (I’d just been playing a John Denver song.) In hysterics, of course, the announcer left out “per hour” after miles. I know that announcers do …
County Signs: The plink of the bat
By MONTE DUTTON PC's Joel Dragoo (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The best thing about pro baseball is the crack of the bat. I remember when all bats were wooden. We used them to fend off the dinosaurs. They gave away thousands of them at an annual Atlanta Braves game. I got a Felipe Alou. …
Nightrider's Lament 