"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)
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Hold your horses – or perhaps your pitchforks -- on the celebrations for Clinton High School in the Class 2A football playoffs.The Red Devils – and the ones in Liberty, too – have a lot riding on Friday night’s game at Liberty.Clinton (6-2, 3-0 Region 1-2A) must …
Continue reading County Signs: Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. GREENWOOD – It’s November, and most of the hay is in the barns, or at least it would be if it wasn’t baled in giant rolls nowadays.Emerald and Laurens played a hard-fought football game that the Vikings won, 26-17, at Frank Hill Stadium, on Friday night. Emerald …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I usually go to football games about 90 minutes early. I like to hang out and watch the band do its rehearsal. I take photos of trees and clouds. I chat with officials, ball boys and chain crews. The people who work football games aren’t there for …
Continue reading County Signs: The refs, umps and zebras deserve better
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. The election is in less than a week. That’s all I know. Or maybe I know too much. At this point, the only surprise is that there aren’t commercials with ex-candidates offering deals on how to bet. Take the under on Trump in Massachusetts. Crapshoot! Dot.com. (Disclaimer: I made that …
Continue reading County Signs: Politics is just a sport, too
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (3) has plenty of company (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. High-school and college football have never been so offensive. In the last two games I’ve attended, one winning team had 801 yards in 60 minutes, and the other had 605 in 48. I suppose which meaning of “offensive” depends on …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I was at a football game on Friday night. I watched on TV all day and well into the night on Saturday and Sunday. The most common part of all the games was holding. And other assorted infractions. The best quotation came from Clinton High School head coach Corey Fountain, …
By MONTE DUTTON (Courtesy John Clayton) Click here. If you go to a homecoming game, and you have no idea who is going to be the queen, bet the quarterback’s sponsor. At Clinton High School, the monarch was Ry’Dai’ja Mars, who was – wait for it, wait for it – sponsor of the quarterback, Tushawan …
By MONTE DUTTON Moonlight through the pines (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s seldom a good sign when someone answers a question by saying, “I just do.” Everyone has a right to say it. For instance, if you ask me why I dislike raw onions, I might say, “I just do.” Most issues, though, have …
By MONTE DUTTON D.J. Clark (18), Tushawan Richardson (1) and Jevan Cook (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. With two games remaining, Clinton (5-2, 2-0) is alone at the top of the Region 1-2A football standings, having shoved Landrum out of the S.C. Media top 10 with a 56-22 thump last week. The Red Devils’ hopes …
Continue reading County Signs: Clinton breaks free in region race
By MONTE DUTTON Laurens Academy's Caleb Hardy digs for the end zone (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Oh. My. God. I have a friend who used to say that all the time. What a rotten weekend. It started slowly, if Friday counts. I went to see Laurens Academy play and enjoyed it. If I had …
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