By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I enjoyed the wide world of motorsports on Saturday. “Spanning the globe to bring you the human drama of sports … the thrill of victory ... the agony of defeat,” I watched a little Indy Car qualifying from Laguna Seca – perhaps my favorite road course because of “the corkscrew” …
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The wide, wild world of John Irving
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. This isn’t the first time I’ve noted that my favorite novelists – Larry McMurtry, Elmore Leonard, Pat Conroy, et al. – have been dying off. Given my own advancing age, there’s no getting around it. Over the years, I’ve read most of John Irving’s great novels: The Cider House Rules, …
Not much worth reading
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I have become obsessed with how bad journalism has become. It’s become a hobby to read Internet stories with lurid headlines if only to see what nothing burgers they are. This morning I saw a headline on “NASCAR’s deadliest tracks.” Truth be known, there aren’t any. I don’t think a …
Scheffler is golf’s coolest cat
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. In Tiger Woods’ heyday, he was rolling thunder. It never surprised me when his body began to fail him. I’ve never seen a golfer come out of cleats like Woods. It was exciting, though. Scottie Scheffler’s personality reminds me of singer Vince Gill. He doesn’t seem to have that burning …
Was that only yesterday or 40 years ago?
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana. No. I didn’t think of that. It just makes me chuckle softly. It’s amazing how long ago it was when certain things happened. Check that. When all things happened. I was watching the British Open on Thursday. Announcers were …
Back from the dead
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Monday had a weird morning. About two weeks ago, a thunderstorm knocked out the electricity for a while, and later that night when I went to bed, I discovered that my CPAP went out. For the time being, I went out and bought some Breathe Rite bandages and did some …
Doing nothing is cheap
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Time stands still. I do a lot of thinking. And reading. And watching old movies. And playing my guitar. I had big plans for today. As it turned out, I never left the house. It’s been a moribund day. TCM ran a series of Tab Hunter movies. The Red Sox …
How many thousand years is it gonna take?
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Every time there is a great natural disaster, the 100-year mark, or the 1,000-year mark, is invoked. On the 11 o’clock news, the “staff meteorologist” – this is usually a fellow who does card tricks or juggles on the side – assures us this is “a 1,000-year event.” I don’t …
Things can get so out of hand
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I always think of this when times are like this in America. In other words, I think about this a lot. Back in the NASCAR years, Nate Ryan and I took road trips from Fort Worth, Texas, to Phoenix, Ariz., because the races were back-to-back. We took various routes, but …
Does an education even matter anymore?
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Every single kid who announces he is going to college to play a sport cites academics. They mention what they want to be (assuming it’s not a pro ballplayer). Many disclose a planned academic major and cite it as an important reason for their decision. Then some of them go …
Nightrider's Lament 