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 …
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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 …
The players get longer; the names get shorter
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I have concluded that actual names are going out of fashion, particularly among the showboats who tell us all about them on television. The Most Valuable Player in the NBA is SGA. Do fans even know his full name? I didn’t. I never hear it. SGA slams! A steal by …
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Weird doings on the diamond
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I spent a lot of time Friday watching NCAA baseball playoff games, mainly because I’m presently too broke to do much else.. I had the usual South Carolinian’s interest in Clemson, and some underdog’s affection for USC Upstate, which won the Big South Tournament out of which Presbyterian quickly retired. …
Here ‘n’ there, this ‘n’ that
By MONTE DUTTON Many things in life are predictable. When a major golf tournament is on TV, and coverage shifts to a player who is out of contention, the shot is going in. They don’t have to mention all the “possible side effects” of prescription drugs. It’s obvious from the commercials that almost all of …
The best account of the best
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. The hereafter is where old race fans debate the merits of Curtis Turner, Junior Johnson and Fireball Roberts. Some young NASCAR fans weren’t born when Dale Earnhardt met his maker. Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Rusty Wallace have their adherents, not to mention those of my age who also recognize …
Devils advance past Chesnee, rain, protest, triple play …
By MONTE DUTTON Brett Young went deep (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. And then, in the Upstate, there were were four. Four schools, in Class 2A, to decide the representative to play for a state championship: Clinton in District 1, Batesburg-Leesville in District 2, Mid- Carolina in District 3 and Strom Thurmond in District 4. …
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Laurens, Clinton both win playoff games
(Photo courtesy John Clayton) Click here. Laurens kept its hopes alive in Class 4A baseball and softball. Clinton flexed its Class 2A muscles in baseball, while its softball team’s fate depends on a Friday home game against Landrum. The Red Devils lost their playoff opener, 10-1, to Ninety Six. Thornwell is no more in the …
Nightrider's Lament 