Jonah Pierce (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The Blue Hose, men’s basketball variety, are rolling. After an uneven opener against Navy, Presbyterian has won three games straight. The latest was Monday night’s 63-61 victory over Georgia State in Atlanta, Ga. It was another game, another hero. Junior guard Carl Parrish, scored 22 points, including the …
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Red Devils wreck Wildcats, 48-7
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. BLACKSBURG -- Clinton’s 48-7 victory on Friday night was impressive but not as explosive as the previous week’s 56-14 win at home against Landrum. Nitro glycerine is not as explosive as the Landrum game. Five hundred thirty-three yards rushing, in a game in which the clock ran …
Red Devils are in Zoom mode
By MONTE DUTTON Red Devil offense is getting better with every game (Monte Dutton photos). Corey Fountain and his Clinton High School football staff have been working on a building. It’s not much different from the old gospel, bluegrass tune penned by A.P Carter. I’m working on a building / I’m working on a building …
Cook, Devils are born to run
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (3) is off to the races with Zy Butler (18) and Tre Aiken (70) leading the way (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Okay, it wasn’t even a full game. The clock ran the entire second half. Javen Cook, in particular, and the Clinton Red Devils, in general, made the best …
Life is but a Zoom, sh’boom, sh’boom
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Mother’s Finest is a funk rock band whose fame spread rapidly in the 1970s. I saw the Atlanta-based band play the Clinton Family YMCA. A couple years later, it played with Styx and Foghat at Greenville Memorial Auditorium. Dis go dis way / Dis go …
County Signs: It’s not the same world
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Believe it or not, it once snowed several times a winter here. This is one aspect of climate change I do not regret. I’ve grown too old for snow. It’s all I can do to walk across a gravel parking lot in the dark.Careful. Don’t get in a hurry.I watched …
County Signs: Two whistlestops on Monday morning
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Monday, from morning to mid-afternoon, was fast, and then, because my wifi turned balky, it turned slow. Presbyterian College has a weekly media conference at 10. Furman University has one at 11:30. I decided to see if I could make both of them. I could. Being a fool, I’ll likely …
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Nightrider's Lament 