By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I had a new experience on Friday. I listened to soccer on the radio. Serious radio. I mean Sirius. XM may have been involved, too. It was rather stirring, the USA’s 2-0 victory over Australia. I listened to it breathlessly, or maybe I was breathless because I was pulling a …
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A lot to unpack
By MONTE DUTTON USA leads Mexico 2-1 in a tense World Cup match in Doha. Click here, The USA played Paraguay in the World Cup on Friday night. Paraguay is where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met their fate. Or was that Uruguay? If I wrote a song about Paraguay, I’d have no choice …
This is the end of the innocence
By MONTE DUTTON People endlessly walk in a voting loop symbolizing repetitive election promises. Click here. As is my habit, I voted. I like to do it the old-fashioned way, perhaps because I can’t remember ever standing in line. I like the poll workers. There’s time to chat. I heard a guy say this on …
Where AI comes in handy
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I use Artificial Intelligence. Often I illustrate these blogs with images created by WordPress as part of the deal for providing this site. Also, it’s easier to ask AI the derivation of “lead-pipe cinch.” The standard Internet search now offers lead pipes I can purchase in the first 20 items. …
Devils keep the line moving, 11-0
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. BATESBURG-LEESVILE – Following the destruction of the reigning Class 2A baseball champions on Saturday evening, Clinton (28-3) is one win away, on Wednesday back in the Red Devils’ home valley, with three days’ rest, against one of two teams it has defeated, by a combined score of …
The best kind of road to ruin
By MONTE DUTTON Mike Hembree (left) and Larry Woody at the Franklin battlefield (Monte Dutton photos). I hope I’m going to get a bit more profound when I take stock of my three-day trip to Nashville, Tenn., which I cheerfully refer to as Music City USA, but not Nashvegas, because I like Nashville better. I …
A mad, mad, mad, mad ballgame
By MONTE DUTTON Gaffney's Brady Smith is safe at second (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. A remarkable facet of baseball is how often lifelong fans, veterans of thousands of games, see things they have never seen before. Naturally, on Wednesday night in the bottom of the sixth inning at Clinton High School, a full moon …
Months and days and watches
By MONTE DUTTON A man looks stressed while managing multiple devices and documents at a busy desk The waitress had her back turned. She was doing something at the grill. “How many days are there this month?” she asked to no one in particular. I’ve a little in common with those guys in the commercials …
Young leads Devils, 15-1
By MONTE DUTTON Coach Peyton Spangler greets Camden Finley at third base (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Surprising no one, Clinton (21-2, 9-1 Region 3-2A) turned Eau Claire every which way but loose on Friday evening after the Red Devils honored their seniors at their valley baseball park. The region has been utterly dominated by …
Clinton dispatches Eau Claire with aplomb
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young strikes again (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Clinton High hit the capital city like it was changing planes on Tuesday. The Red Devils took batting practice against Eau Claire, winning for the 11th time in a row with a 15-0, happy-hour annihilation of the Shamrocks. Led by catcher Luke Young …
Nightrider's Lament 