By MONTE DUTTON A Slawson slam (Elena Davidson photo) Click here. I’m looking forward to football. At the moment, I’m learning even more about Caitlin Clark. Nothing wrong with that. I’m a fan, and it’s hard to avoid because the Indiana Fever is on TV three times a week. Plus, what used to be called …
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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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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 …
Furmanology: It takes a village to raise a team
By MONTE DUTTON Carson Jones is one of 14 Paladins who have started (Furman photo). Click here. What challenges lie ahead. Furman’s Southern Conference champion football program has 14 players who have started, at least by recent calculations. Players who have started are not the same as returning starters. Duplicating the 10-3 records of the …
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County Signs: ‘In the summertime, when the weather is hot …’
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s great to have some time to write songs and edit fiction, but gosh, it feels good to get out in the heat and snap photos of cute kids tossing the old pigskins around. It’s almost impossible to take bad photos of kids. They were scattered around …
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County Signs: ‘Just racin’ (for a while) in the rain …’
By MONTE DUTTON Friday night lights (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I probably would not have watched the NASCAR Xfinity Series race from New Hampshire. I discovered the Sci Aps 200 was starting on rain tires, which had never been used on an oval. The rain was clearing out. The teams only ran treaded tires …
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County Signs: Post 56 encounters sparse resistance
By MONTE DUTTON Tanner Finley was untouchable for three innings. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It was great to get out. After the usual – writing, assembling, choosing photos, playing guitar, sipping coffee and half paying attention to what’s on the tube – I went off whistle-stopping late Thursday afternoon. First was watching the Junior …
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Furmanology: The need for speed(ing tickets)
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The United States Open is being played in Moore County, N.C., which is a golf principality. Just to the south is Richmond County, which is a onetime NASCAR duchy. Every time I wrote about a race at Rockingham, I stayed at the Holiday Inn in Southern Pines, …
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