"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 Click here. I have a generally positive view of the football programs at both Clemson and South Carolina. I like to watch the games on TV. I watched Georgia Tech edge the Tigers before I drove over to Bailey Memorial Stadium on Saturday to watch PC beat Erskine. I had Vanderbilt’s victory …
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By MONTE DUTTON Click here. My opinion is grounded in most of a lifetime of sportswriting. It’s not wrong to hope others like you do well. What’s wrong is to limit an activity, sport or career only to people like you. Bubba Wallace’s victory at the Brickyard 400 made me ponder this topic. I have …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) The sun was behind the visiting side of Wilder Stadium, hanging over the 20-yard line, and all the football players loose from baseball had golden coronas encircling their heads. The springtime celebration of the Class 2A state championship took just about as long as the game a little over …
Clinton, South Carolina, Sunday, December 1, 2019, 10:30 a.m. It was a lone outpost consisting of a pop-up tent, a silver-gray trailer with a big-screen TV, another whose screen wasn’t as big, tables of food, coolers of ice and beverage, and a small group of would-be celebrants. The Furman University campus was mostly vacant in …
During the heyday of high school football in this town, lots of fans used to watch the team practice late in the evenings, after the mill shift ended. It was the late seventies, and that was a decade that saw Clinton win four state championships and reach the finals twice more. One day I was …
Sports fans often oversimplify matters when their clubs fare poorly. If it gets clobbered in a big match, the fans assume the players were out drinking all night, or they were all smoking pot in the locker room. Sometimes it even works in reverse. About thirty years ago, I was sitting behind two elderly gentlemen …
Nightrider's Lament 