"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 PJay Smith (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. I never saw Stephen Croone play in person, but I was a big fan. While Croone was playing for the Paladins, I was, unbeknownst to me, winding down my NASCAR writing career. I had a false sense of security. Other than the occasional blog, I …
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By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. At this stage of my career, the best part of the annual Laurens County Sports Hall of Fame is that the audience mainly consists of people my age and older. They knew my parents. They ate at the Wrangler. They bought watermelons at my grandfather’s store. Those …
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Walter Todd at the Laurens County Amateur at Lakeside in 2022. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Anthony Downs, Charles Peterson, Walter Todd, Jean Hammond Whitfield and Robert P. Wilder are the five new members of the Laurens County Sports Hall of Fame. The Laurens County Sports Hall of Fame will induct five members into its …
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J.P. Pegues (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ One game does not turn a season around. It takes more to qualify as a turnaround. Perhaps one began at Timmons Arena on Wednesday when The Citadel was satisfactorily repulsed. An encore is important. Furman gets a chance to make another action louder than words when East Tennessee State visits …
Sipping a cup of coffee, Haney McGee thought about Ebby Newlin, the old man who didn’t drive a car, worked his whole life at a gas station without ever running one, and looked out for the kids from the wrong side of the tracks. Haney had been in Denver, trying like hell to keep …
Claim you’re making / More than you are / Hitch your wagon / To a star / The truth is incidental / To what you gotta say / Those who can’t play ball / Are prone to fade away Riggs Hellams completed his session with the fungo, and now all he had to do …
Nightrider's Lament 