By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. ASHEVILLE, N.C. – The basketball teams I follow can play with anybody, and anybody can play with them. Man, oh, man, did Furman and Samford ever play with each other. Don’t take that the wrong way. The shooting was out of Pleasantville. The plot was out of …
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If only Aminata Tal was tall
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – A lot goes on at a college basketball tournament. This one in the Big South Conference is just getting started. The games on Wednesday matched the worst teams: eighth-best versus ninth. Winning it from here is similar to plowing a field that happens to be …
To dream impossible dreams
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Please release me. Let me go. I’ll catch up with the county when I get back from the mountains. Maybe nighttime baseball won’t be cold by then. I spent Tuesday packing, leaving some stuff at the storage unit and bringing some back to the camper-trailer, which, no, I’m not towing …
Now for something different
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. What’s that commercial? Head for the mountains! I spent Tuesday packing, leaving some stuff at the storage unit and bringing some back to the camper-trailer, which, no, I’m not towing to the mountains. I’ll be in cheap motel rooms. I won’t be doing anything there but sleep. Once I was …
In my element
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. On Sunday night, I watched a healthy portion of Believers: Boston Red Sox, a documentary that centers on the 2004 World Series. At the same time, I was switching to a basketball game between Charleston and UNC Wilmington. The Cougars came from 15 points behind and won. I watched Miami …
All is well in Spartanburg, 76-67
By MONTE DUTTON Asa Thomas hit his first six three-pointers (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. SPARTANBURG – The late Tom T. Hall wrote a song called “I Like Beer.” I drank two once in the past year. It was the national college-football championship game on TV at a Mexican restaurant. No doctor told me not …
Days and nights in Daytona Beach
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. When I was a kid, I thought Daytona was such a pretty name. It sounded racy. Later I realized that they just took a guy named Dayton and added an “a” at the end. Besides, there is no city named Daytona. It’s Daytona Beach, just as there’s no Hilton Head …
Lots of familiar faces
The Poconos Click here. I awakened on Sunday with a ferocious appetite and immediately jumped into my pants and headed to a drive-through. My dream was tiring. Let’s see. I drove the best car I ever owned – a 2000 Honda I eventually gave to charity -- to Pennsylvania, undoubtedly to cover a stock car …
Things are tough all over
By MONTE DUTTON Asa Thomas (Furman photo) Click here. This Furman men’s basketball team is an enigma wrapped in a conundrum. To borrow from a nursery rhyme, when it is good, it is very, very good, and when it is bad, it is horrid. The Paladins have mostly weathered their injuries, but the reassembly is …
Two Devils and a Crusader line up for college
By MONTE DUTTON Garrison Vaughan (second from left) and family are all smiles (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Newberry, North Greenville and Carson-Newman are the latest beneficiaries of Laurens County football talent. Garrison Vaughan, Laurens Academy’s burly lineman, is joining the Wolves, whose 12-2 record last fall included three Division II playoff wins. Bryson Perrin …
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