By MONTE DUTTON Click here. On the night of January 2, something unprecedented happened. My stomach blew up. It perforated. I couldn’t get out of bed till morning. I went to the hospital without shoes, laptop and keys, from home to Laurens to Greenville. Surgery was late that night.I had posted 40 stories in 40 …
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County Signs: The year in erratic review
By MONTE DUTTON The Red Devils' quarterback was off and running early in the state championship game (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Unless Tushawan Richardson scores 100 points in a tournament next week, the year’s great stories have run their course.Well, maybe if he scored 50, which seems possible.This is unlikely, since Richardson has only …
A Christmas morning collection of inspiration
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Merry Christmas. After the sleepless childress have experienced the wonder of the glittering tree and the presents scattered around it, let us find time to contemplate the soul of our being, where we are and where we are going."We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though …
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County Signs: CFP disappoints, along with PC
By MONTE DUTTON Clemson and Dabo Swinney put up the best fight of the first round (Caleb Gilbert photo). Click here. A year ago at this time, some said there weren’t really 12 college football teams capable of winning a national playoff.Like everything else in sports above a certain level, TV made the call and …
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A new verse to an old song
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. In honor of the Class 2A state title, I added a verse to “Go Big Red,” the song I started writing on a team bus 49 years ago.My teammates started singing and chanting on the way home from road games, all of which we won during my …
County Signs: I try to be unaffected by commercials
By MONTE DUTTON Maison Tinsley (13) and Brett Young (10) (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Considerable evidence exists that I watch too much TV.I mention commercials that I’ve seen approximately a hundred times that others seem to have never seen.My knowledge is broad-based. They are gleaned from major-college football games, minor-college football games and reruns …
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County Signs: Life on the road
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. On Thursday, I got up at dawn and got done after midnight.On Saturday, I got up at dawn and got done after midnight.In between, I left the house once but spent the majority of the day and night writing and laying out and selecting photos. I stayed …
County Signs: Little memories of big things
By MONTE DUTTON Big boys. Hard-working boys. Jared Honeycutt (79), Cal Pitts (73), Hunter Lawson (75) (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It was a perfect day in Orangeburg. Ten years ago, I watched another game there. That one was enjoyable, too.I managed not to make one of those absentminded mistakes that strike me early in …
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Furmanology: Sometimes a fellow can go too far
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. A nice man working the Columbia College-Presbyterian men’s basketball game – noon on Education Day at Clinton’s Templeton Center on Wednesday – befriended me. We had a chat in the parking lot, where he was guarding the staff lot near the back door.I usually like the men and …
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Furmanology: Paladins conquer Buccaneers, 58-42
By MONTE DUTTON Clay Hendrix is riding the comeback trail (Furman photo) Click here. Perhaps there is some consolation in Furman’s 3-8 record in football.The Paladins are hardly alone in upward or downward mobility.Arizona State improved this year from 3-9 to 11-2. Florida State fell from 13-1 to 2-10. The Seminoles are a poster child …
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Nightrider's Lament 