By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I can’t move on from football. Football is too great. I love it too much.To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. – Ecclesiastes 3:1Mortals have made seasons overlap.In Clinton, the stadium is named after the quiet man who lived across the highway. …
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County Signs: If commercials were real …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Do you ever live in commercial world?If I ever go to New York again, I’m not going to the Empire State Building, Yankee Stadium or the Metropolitan Opera. I’m going to find that deck with the Statue of Liberty in the background. That’s where the action is.Several meds cause an …
County Signs: Gamecocks, Tigers really love each other
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. The South Carolina-Clemson meeting of the Laurens County Touchdown Club – it’s held a week early because next Thursday is some holiday or something – was a civil, sportsmanlike affair at The Ridge.No one made reference to Chickens and Kittycats. Mascots didn’t square off and threaten to scuffle. No one …
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Furmanology: A late win means a lot
By MONTE DUTTON Freshman Trey Hedden stepped back into the starting lineup and led the Paladins to victory (Furman photo). Click here. I spent the first half of Sunday catching up on this site, that and watching an old film noir titled “The Big Combo,” with Cornel Wilde and Richard Conte.As a measure of how …
Red Devils give Pelion hell, 56-0
By MONTE DUTTON Junior K.J. Vance hits his stride (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. The most important – and most exciting – play of Clinton’s 56-0, Class 2A playoff victory over Pelion occurred with 17 seconds remaining in the first half.After Pelion (2-9) ran out of downs at the Clinton 20, quarterback Tushawan Richardson and …
County Signs: Fun facts don’t pay the power bill
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Without the Internet, there’s no telling how much less useless information I’d know.I know why passenger planes don’t fly over the Himalayas, that almost all of South America is east of the United States, why the Air Force bombed northern Japan while World War II surrender negotiations were underway and …
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County Signs: Change rules the ballfields
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. The world’s gone crazy.I’m going to confine it to sports, which is my habit.In college football, LSU and Georgia got hammered. Indiana, Army and Brigham Young are undefeated.I haven’t examined the numbers, but someone who notably has, Paul Finebaum, said this morning that eight teams could tie for the Southeastern …
For Wofford, 19-13 is the magic score
By MONTE DUTTON Carson Jones passed effectively, but four sacks hurt (Furman photo). Click here. On the way home from Paladin Stadium Saturday night, I took turns listening to Clemson and South Carolina win. Great for them.I stopped by Dollar General and bought some coffee, peanut butter and Ritz crackers.For inspiration, or even just a …
Hurst leads grounding of Flyers
By MONTE DUTTON Collin Hurst (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. What is Presbyterian College if not a place for the little guy?Collin Hurst is quite a little guy. He’s 5-10, a buck 65. Plays QB. Just a red-shirt freshman, out of Davie, Fla.Davie, Davie, Florida, king of the wild frontier. A little mythology never hurt …
Furmanology: A few good things happened
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. The week hasn’t been a total loss. I saw Daniel J. Travanti, Furillo many years later on Hill Street Blues, trying and failing to get away with murder on an old Perry Mason. Also, I watched a splendid movie, “Cry, Beloved Country,” starring James Earl Jones and Richard …
Nightrider's Lament 