"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 Javen Cook (3) is little but loud (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For the second year in a row, Clinton High School is off to Chapin to participate in the final exhibition warm-up to football season. For the second year in a row, the Red Devils are entering the season with one …
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By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Latest trends in the world of sports: Length and size have replaced height and weight. Groups have been replaced by rooms (“the quarterback room”) that I suspect do not actually exist. Some words have flip-flopped meanings to the point where anything goes. Citizens want governments to be “transparent” so they …
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook shifts gears (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Woodruff High School is a familiar place for Red Devils to play, though on Thursday night they were playing Class 4A Fountain Inn at W.L. Varner Stadium, where I once played and Varner was still the Wolverines’ head coach. As I sat on …
By MONTE DUTTON Clay Hendrix (Furman photo) Click here. I am prone to overestimation of Furman’s football prospects. A year ago, as I perused Hunter Reid’s preview of the various position groups – the currently fashionable term is “rooms” – I discovered in the layout process that I had few action photos on file of …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. It takes a village. In 2006, Hillary Clinton wrote a book with that title. Nowadays, for many citizens, the opinion depends on the origin of the message. The late songwriter/comedian Tim Wilson (a PC man, by the way) wrote a song that lampooned the message: “It Takes …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The Clinton Red Devils were decked out in their game uniforms on Friday morning, and they looked proud, as well they should. The fact that they are the reigning Class 2A state champions naturally leads to the suspicion that they can do it again. High expectations are, …
By MONTE DUTTON Not Stonehenge (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I’ve not been a globetrotter. I’ve not even been a county trotter. Or a trotter at all. I did drive to Newberry on Wednesday, though, for a long overdue visit with a friend. Dr. Jodie Peeler, communications program director at Newberry College, and I had …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. So … … I’ve quipped for months that I hoped to live long enough to see the sale of my land go through so that I could make a new start in a new place and become successful again. It’s not as much of a joke as it used to …
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, …
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 …
Nightrider's Lament 