By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) https://chsreddevils.com/chs-booster-club-application-2023-2024/ This is “dead week” for high-school sports, a term I’m surprised hasn’t been changed in this humorless age. It is not dead week for dogs because fireworks are going to be going off even if it’s hailing. Tuesday is Independence Day, which occurs with unerring reliability on the Fourth of …
What I’ve decided lately
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Just to be on the record, I do not expect the NASCAR race on Sunday through the streets of Chicago to be entertaining. I expect it’s going to be a rarity, a stock-car race where passing is harder than an IndyCar race. Stock car racing is entertaining on a road …
Diamonds are forever but not for a while
By MONTE DUTTON Bryce Young fires to first. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ This might be weird. I feel as if baseball is over. I haven’t watched so little major-league baseball on TV in more than 25 years. I kept hearing about how great the College World Series was, so I finally watched a couple games, …
Up the down staircase
By MONTE DUTTON Steve Englehart figures to improve in year two (PC photo) Presbyterian College has a new president, returning to Clinton after a relatively short-term tenure at Mercer University and a long-term one on the PC history faculty. This may or may not have an appreciable effect on the Blue Hose athletics program for …
Down to the last drop
By MONTE DUTTON The "good game, man" line (Monte Dutton photos) What’s not to like about playing a little ball on a beautiful morning? High school football is one of many arts of the possible. They don’t put the pads on till August. The High School League lets them play pitch-and-catch, and they make a …
The next level
By MONTE DUTTON Jalen Slawson in the SoCon Tournament (Elena Davidson photo). There’s an old story, told cheerfully by both men, about Les Robinson, then head coach at The Citadel, asking Furman’s Joe Williams out to lunch when he was passing through Greenville. “Can’t,” Williams said, “gotta go to graduation.” “They don’t even make me …
What to do when it rains
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) The last time I felt like this in June, I was in Seattle. The entire past week has been spent in days which my old man used to say “ain’t good for nothin’ ‘cept sleeping.” The more specific description of weather trends is global “weirding,” not “warming.” Warming is just a …
You can’t hide money
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) Spanning the globe, making observations regarding the constant variety of sport, the heartbreak of psoriasis, the pain of arthritis, and the flammability of money when it’s laying around. … If this isn’t a mess, it’ll do till the mess gets here. Few spectacles are more pleasing than watching Ja Morant play …
Clark cashes in Wyndham points
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) Baseball games are too long. College football games are too long. NASCAR races are too long. Soccer matches are too long. Why aren’t golf tournaments too long? Because it is the nature of the game. I wouldn’t want a round of the United States Open to be nine holes. Tastes of …
The racer once known as Wonderboy
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) Many of my favorite times as a sportswriter occurred during experiences I didn’t have to share with anyone. … … NASCAR race mornings in the press box, chatting and sipping coffee with Benny Parsons or Buddy Baker. … … Sharing a golf cart with Jimmy Spencer or Randy LaJoie. I’d have …
Nightrider's Lament 