By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The Open is on when America is awakening. It’s cool once a year to get out of bed, fix some breakfast and watch the world’s greatest golfers put their flaws on display. The British royalty is on display. Everything seems to be Royal. Royal Troon, Royal & …
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County Signs: Two Blue go pro
By MONTE DUTTON Daniel Eagen (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Two Presbyterian College baseball players had magnificent springs. Unsurprisingly, the big leagues took notice. Presbyterian College’s fire-balling ace, Daniel Eagen, was selected on Monday in the third round of the MLB draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Eagen was the 102th overall pick, making him the …
County Signs: Kids do the darndest things
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Kids are always going to do crazy things. This is because kids enjoy doing crazy things. What prompted this routine observation? I saw a commercial for the snack food Goldfish, and I thought, Why did they ever make a cheesy cracker shaped like goldfish? I remembered when …
County Signs: Watch what you ask for …
By MONTE DUTTON (Caleb Gilbert photo) Click here. This is no new refrain from me. The problem with college athletics’ relentless consolidation is that it doesn’t leave enough glory to go around. Most fans believe their favorite school is inherently superior. It has intangible qualities that separate it from everything else. I am at least …
County Signs: Head in the clouds
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Either I’m harkening back to the carefree days of youth, or, as Jonathan Winters used to say, I’m starting the final glide path. Do you remember lying on your back in the yard – back in pre-fire-ants times – and staring at the clouds? When the power …
County Signs: Wilder Stadium adds video scoreboard
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Clinton High School continues to upgrade its historic football stadium, the most apparent improvement being a combination score- and video board to replace the old one behind Wilder Stadium’s south end zone. New stands and a restroom building are being constructed on the visitors side. Until 1960, …
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Baseball, hot rods, humble pie and Chevrolet
By MONTE DUTTON No telling what's out there. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Sunday was an excellent day for automobile racing. Lewis Hamilton, who, astonishingly, is about to turn 40, won the British Grand Prix for the ninth time. He’s at the age where it reminds me of what NASCAR’s Mark Martin used to say. …
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County Signs: Football begins to beckon
By MONTE DUTTON Laurens head coach Greg Porter (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. In terms of organized sports, most fields are fallow as we await the opening salvos of Independence 2024. Me? I could use the time. Before long, the hills will be alive with the sound of pads popping. On the county scene, the …
County Signs: It’s all in the movies
By MONTE DUTTON Out at the plate (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I did something I haven’t done since COVID. (Knock on wood.) I went to a movie. I munched popcorn in a cool arena with an enormous screen and thunderous sound. My previous movie, in the late fall of 2019, was Ford v. Ferrari. …
County Signs: To everything, there is a season
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. American Legion baseball is a slight step back. It doesn’t have the tension of high-school ball in the spring. It’s the summer. It’s supposed to be fun. It is. I’ve made quite the transition. For years, when I was away watching fast cars, I occasionally proclaimed that …
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Nightrider's Lament 