"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)
Luke Young (file photo) Click here. Clinton continues to heat up with the weather, winning its third baseball game in a row on Wednesday night, 11-4, at Ninety Six.Catcher Luke Young singled in the third and sixth innings and homered to left in the fourth,The Red Devils got on the board in the second on …
Continue reading There must be Ninety Six ways to win a ballgame
By MONTE DUTTON Cooper Bowser guards Corey Tripp (10) (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. ASHEVILLE, N.C. – It’s not the first time I’ve invoked the memory of the late Jim Beauchamp on such occasions, and it probably won’t be the last. I think of “Beech” (his name was pronounced “BEE-chum”) often because he was larger …
Continue reading Terriers get their shooting dialed in, 92-85
By MONTE DUTTON Gardner-Webb coach Jeremy Luther took his medicine in Johnson City (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Being away on my great basketball road trip spared me an inglorious period back home.It was sorrowful in Johnson City, Tenn., too. (I can’t say those three words without thinking of “Wagon Wheel.”) I was moved by …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading A Christmas morning collection of inspiration
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 …
Continue reading County Signs: CFP disappoints, along with PC
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 …
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 …
Continue reading County Signs: I try to be unaffected by commercials
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 …
Nightrider's Lament 