"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 Coleman Coker (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It wasn’t a bad weekend. I found out who Nelly Korda is. By some miracle, the Boston Red Sox are 13-10. I’m trying to keep optimism at bay. It’s early. Talladega ended with a crash at the finish line. Who knew? I hoped Brad Keselowski …
Continue reading County Signs: Next … Red Devils visit Raiders
By MONTE DUTTON Bennett Edwards drove in six runs. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Laurens accepted the key to Region 2-4A on Friday night, and Clinton has a locksmith on retainer. I was at Ed Prescott Field, even though the Raiders had already clinched the top seed but needed a victory over Wade Hampton to …
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. I was back in my right mind Tuesday, taxes begone, getting ahead, watching part of a movie that I’ve watched part of three times in the last month, playing a little guitar, having something I hadn’t had at Steamers and trundling off to a ballyard. …
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Baseball is a funny game. Joe Garagiola named a book that. The first person who said it was probably in the first game. Garagiola gets credit because he wrote the book. Kids go to baseball games to play. They’ll take up any vacant space and …
Continue reading County Signs: Raiders, Red Devils jockeying for playoff position
By MONTE DUTTON Carson Glenn was perfect in relief. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. This is how I’ve changed on social media. I let more go. For instance, just a minute ago, I read a post that expressed this view in the form of a question; “What grown man still eats peanut butter and jelly …
Continue reading County Signs: Red Devils quiet Cyclones, 3-1
Me-Me Smith delivers. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I see a lot of interesting names. Perhaps my favorite of the spring to date is Presbyterian College baseball player Rhogue Wallace. I’m partial to Clinton softball player Me-Me Smith. I think of a coach, perhaps even Joseph Terry, asking, “Hey, who wants to pitch?” “Me! Me! …
Continue reading County Signs: Name games and a Clinton comeback
Carson Glenn (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Once, when we experienced science fiction and special effects, the quality was such that we had to imagine it was real. Now it looks so real that we have to imagine that it isn’t. Who wants to see Iowa play LSU? How about LSU-South Carolina? South Carolina-Iowa? I …
Continue reading County Signs: Devils’ bats heard, Hose drop third
Raiders came back, but Jordan Hudson wasn't around to see it. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Even when the weather is clear, a spring night has dampness in it. Parents and friends huddle in the shadows, some up against the fence in their foldable chairs, others standing back a bit, wearing caps and windbreakers, wishing …
Brett Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. A high percentage of people who attended a funeral and wrote about it mentioned the weather. For the record, it was drizzly and overcast at Fort Jackson National Military Cemetery when Jim McLaurin took his mortal bow. I saw no hidden meaning. The poet laureate of the working …
Continue reading County Signs: Figures that it began with a funeral
Me-Me Smith (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Because ESPN2 must have something to show on Tuesday night, I watched part of the men’s basketball game between High Point and Arkansas State. It’s the Ro College Basketball Invitational, live from Daytona Beach Center. High Point, the regular-season champion of the Big South, was up seven the …
Continue reading County Signs: Vikings founder crossing lake
Nightrider's Lament 