By MONTE DUTTON Click here. As the curtain falls on “Blue, Green, Purple & Red,” I wanted to express my appreciation to everyone who has supported the site. It’s hard to keep up with technology. I thought I was ahead of the curve when I was behind it. What I hoped to do was fill …
Category: Writing
All I have to do is dream
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. It’s been a while since I’ve let you know what I’m doing. That’s because it’s been a long time since I’ve known what I was doing. I’m getting closer. The biggest reason for my professional slowdown is the sale of my property, which remains in a government and regulatory holdup. …
Weird doings on the diamond
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I spent a lot of time Friday watching NCAA baseball playoff games, mainly because I’m presently too broke to do much else.. I had the usual South Carolinian’s interest in Clemson, and some underdog’s affection for USC Upstate, which won the Big South Tournament out of which Presbyterian quickly retired. …
Not just another war novel
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Millions fought in World War II. Thousands were taken prisoner. Thousands of works of fiction have been written. Silver Wings, Iron Cross by Tom Young thus becomes plausible amid the sheer numbers of the conflagration. If such a story never happened, perhaps it should have. In the waning days of …
Here ‘n’ there, this ‘n’ that
By MONTE DUTTON Many things in life are predictable. When a major golf tournament is on TV, and coverage shifts to a player who is out of contention, the shot is going in. They don’t have to mention all the “possible side effects” of prescription drugs. It’s obvious from the commercials that almost all of …
Another loss in the ranks
By MONTE DUTTON Al Pearce Click here. When I first started writing regularly about NASCAR as a way to make a living, I quickly gained acceptance in the media centers and press boxes because of two friends, Mike Hembree and Al Pearce. Back in 1993, the NASCAR media corps was hard to penetrate. Veterans – …
NASCAR used to be fun
By MONTE DUTTON (Photo by Harold Hinson/HHP for Chevy Racing) Click here. On Thursday night, I was watching the Daytona qualifying races on TV and thought about how they had changed since the early 1990s, when I started writing about them.They were in the daytime back then, and the stands were almost full. The stands …
County Signs: Blue Hose stuck
By MONTE DUTTON Quinton Ferrell (right) with Kaleb Scott (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s been a month. Ain’t no catching up on the seasons. It’ll still be a while before I’m fit to describe the games in person. I’m still raising my legs and swinging them every which a ways. I’m hobbling around town …
What’ll I do for an encore?
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I wrote about 20 Daytona 500s and many other sporting events where championships were determined. Almost every winner called it a humbling experience afterward.That was a lie.Being the best in the world at something is not humbling. The best can be humble, but that’s not not what made him or …
Four Hundred Hogs
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. On the night of January 2, something unprecedented happened. My stomach blew up. It perforated. I couldn’t get out of bed till morning. I went to the hospital without shoes, laptop and keys, from home to Laurens to Greenville. Surgery was late that night.I had posted 40 stories in 40 …
Nightrider's Lament 