By MONTE DUTTON From left, Bernard Durham, Bobby Sheridan and Robbie Caldwell (Monte Dutton photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ NORTH AUGUSTA – It was hot, not unlike football practices 40 years ago. It led me to words written by Tom T. Hall, paraphrased to reflect the passage of time. Was that only yesterday or 40 years ago? Lions …
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Richard the Lionhearted
By MONTE DUTTON Stanford Jennings and Tim Sorrells (Monte Dutton photos) It’s been a week. When I learned Dick Sheridan had died, I dropped everything and tried to write something that others would not. For most of a decade, I worked with and for Sheridan. https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ His greatness stands on its own merits. It doesn’t …
Up the down staircase
By MONTE DUTTON Steve Englehart figures to improve in year two (PC photo) Presbyterian College has a new president, returning to Clinton after a relatively short-term tenure at Mercer University and a long-term one on the PC history faculty. This may or may not have an appreciable effect on the Blue Hose athletics program for …
Down to the last drop
By MONTE DUTTON The "good game, man" line (Monte Dutton photos) What’s not to like about playing a little ball on a beautiful morning? High school football is one of many arts of the possible. They don’t put the pads on till August. The High School League lets them play pitch-and-catch, and they make a …
And I love them so
(Fletcher Pruitt Jr. photo) (Monte Dutton photo) I’d hate to pick between baseball and football, and basketball is rising with a bullet in this writer’s pop chart. You can dance to basketball. (For those of you too young for Dick Clark’s American Bandstand, it’s an old cliché. The crowds of wholesome youths would rate the …
Devils put spring’s toil on display
(Monte Dutton photos) By MONTE DUTTON The Red Devils have many holes to fill but ample seeds in the planter. Identifying which of those seeds will sprout is the first task of spring practice, which ended with Clinton High’s spring game on Thursday, pushed back by the unprecedented length of the baseball season and to …
Raiders show spring in their steps
(Monte Dutton photo) Ira Bedenbaugh was in midseason form on the public address, but the teams wore practice togs, and it was not unusual for players wearing green jerseys to clobber others wearing the same. The occasion was Laurens District High’s spring scrimmage at K.C. Hanna Stadium. As a rule, offensive players wore white and …
Are the Good Times Really Over for Good?
Clinton, South Carolina, Tuesday, September 1, 2002, 8:36 a.m. Wow. It’s September. When will wonders cease? For the first time in my life, something has happened that is as bad as it could be. I’m grading on a curve. In absolute terms, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 – epidemic regionally, pandemic worldwide – could theoretically dwell …
Forever Lulled
Clinton, South Carolina, Saturday, June 13, 2020, 9:53 a.m. What have I learned from the great vacant year of 2020? I’ve got plenty of time to ponder this absence of normality. It’s only half over as the calendar flies. The pandemic is a house fire that continues to flare up every time it looks like …
Satire at Sunset
Clinton, South Carolina, Saturday, April 18, 2020, 8:37 a.m. Back when I traveled most of the country, writing about race cars that went ’round and ’round and the mostly white men who drove them, my favorite device was not a shock absorber but its literary equivalent, satire. Once -- it was in Dover, Delaware, I …
