By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I washed my face in the morning dew / Bathed my soul in the sun / I washed my face in the morning sun / And kept on moving along Of course, Tom T. Hall wrote it. He didn’t have a morning of 7-on-7s at Clinton High …
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Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and money
By MONTE DUTTON (Caleb Gilbert photo) Click here. I’ve mentioned it before, but among baseball’s many virtues is the incidence of the unexpected. I’ve seen a zillion games and listened to a bajillion. That’s not even counting the softball. Technology multiplies. On Sunday night, I was surfing three college games, one major-league, the end of …
Furmanology: Baseball from a distance
By MONTE DUTTON (Danny Barletta photo) Click here. Surfing the Super Regionals, I heard an announcer yell, “Wow!!! That ball went 110 miles off the bat!!!” I thought, Far out. (I’d just been playing a John Denver song.) In hysterics, of course, the announcer left out “per hour” after miles. I know that announcers do …
Furmanology: Quite the change
By MONTE DUTTON Paladin Stadium (Furman photo) Click here. I watched the ceremonies from Normandy on Thursday morning, and it made me wish America could come together like that on anything now. Culture shock hurts. Growing up, World War II veterans were prevalent. Teachers showed us mementoes in class. People told stories. The most mild-mannered …
Furmanology: Compare and contrast …
By MONTE DUTTON Mike Bothwell, triumphant (Elena Davidson photo) Click here. I see lots of celebrations. The baseball ones, I think, are the best and most dangerous, albeit no precincts report these days at Furman. Basketball players are prone to exult in somewhat smaller groups. A single pair of eyes cannot capture the scene fully. …
County Signs: The sporting life and the real one
By MONTE DUTTON A Wilder Stadium Friday night (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Sports ain’t real, man. It’s better than real life. Most of my life has been devoted to it. I’ve relished that it’s not real. It’s microcosmic, perhaps in too many ways. I fear it’s becoming macrocosmic. True Grit isn’t a real depiction …
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Odds are trouble’s on the way
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. We’ll all know that gambling –oh, I’m sorry, it’s not gambling, it’s merely gaming – has completely taken over when folks can put money on the outcome of a Trump trial. Maybe even a parlay. Gambling is one of many areas of life that seems to be relentlessly …
County Signs: Raiders spring forward, Hose fall back
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. At the end of Laurens’ spring football game on Thursday evening, head coach Greg Porter took microphone in hand to thank the attendees for being at K.C. Hanna Stadium. It was rather hot and airless, and the baseball team had fallen in the state finals the night …
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Sheridan legend still spreads
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman graphic) Click here. Dick Sheridan was a man of great fame. To his credit, he was inducted into most halls while he was still alive. It’s probably impossible for me to name them all: college football, Furman, Furman athletic, state athletic, state football and now Southern Conference. At least. The most …
Furmanology: Paladins ranked 14th in FCS
By MONTE DUTTON Senior Xavier Stephens anchors the defensive line. (Furman photo) Click here. Old movies reveal habits from the past. For instance, back when automobiles didn’t have consoles and bucket seats, drivers got in the passenger side and slid across the bench seats. Have you ever tried to get in the passenger side and …
Nightrider's Lament 