"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 (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The surreal moment of the week was finding myself a seat with a nice camera view and watching Wofford score nine runs immediately and 15 in the first three innings. Until the game started, I had high hopes for the Blue Hose. The Terriers won, 19-2, and …
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By MONTE DUTTON PJay Smith (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. I never saw Stephen Croone play in person, but I was a big fan. While Croone was playing for the Paladins, I was, unbeknownst to me, winding down my NASCAR writing career. I had a false sense of security. Other than the occasional blog, I …
Continue reading Furmanology: Adjusting to the speed of light
By MONTE DUTTON Peroxide has agreed with the Raiders. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Things I’ve noticed in movies and TV: It never drizzles. Movies shot in a studio have rickety doors. Many times the bad guy or gal in modern movies is the one who smokes. In old movies, everyone smokes. The second coming …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s all the same. Sports. News. Weather. Music. Talk. Talk. Talk. Everything’s a talk show. Everybody’s got a podcast. So why am I writing this? So much seems micro, and so little seems macro. So much minutiae. So much of the obvious. Superstar curses teammate in tunnel …
By MONTE DUTTON Dixon Black homers for Wofford in the top of the first inning. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I was moderately excited when I drove over to Elton Pollock Field on Tuesday. Presbyterian was riding a four-game Big South winning streak. The previous game against Wofford seemed a distant memory. It drew nearer …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: There’s something about Wofford
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. On Saturday, I watched the closest finish in Kentucky Derby history. On Sunday, I watched the closest finish in NASCAR history. On TV, mind you. I’m not some globe-trotting bon vivant hiding behind a cloak of seeming poverty. I’m worse than a poor boy. I’m a poor old …
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 …
Continue reading County Signs: Long ago in about the same place
(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 …
Continue reading Blue Hose Blurbs: PC reaches top of Big South heap
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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