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 …
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Here come those tight ends again
Brock Chappell (Furman photo) Click here. It has become fashionable in recent years to define position groups as “rooms.” The one that figuratively contains the Furman tight ends is well appointed. Since 1977, Furman has produced 34 All-Southern Conference tight ends, and the last two years that roll of distinction has included a pair of …
County Signs: Name games and a Clinton comeback
Me-Me Smith delivers. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I see a lot of interesting names. Perhaps my favorite of the spring to date is Presbyterian College baseball player Rhogue Wallace. I’m partial to Clinton softball player Me-Me Smith. I think of a coach, perhaps even Joseph Terry, asking, “Hey, who wants to pitch?” “Me! Me! …
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Sometimes it’s hard to spell it all out
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Because I think a lot on weekends … I suspect many more foreign athletes are limited to a single or nick name – Ichiro, “The Joker,” Ohtani, Pele, et al. --- because of a reluctance to pronounce the names. It’s as true of me as broadcasters, but I do have …
As the Thunder Rolled and the Lightning Struck
Clinton, South Carolina, Saturday, June 2, 2018, 11:02 a.m. I thought I had plenty of time to get to Clinton High School’s graduation ceremonies. I got my hair cut, and I didn’t make myself an appointment online, and the lady said it would probably be at least a 40-minute wait. Haircuts are spur-of-the-moment decisions for …
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They Won’t Get This at the Super Bowl
Clinton, South Carolina, Friday, January 26, 2018, 1:09 p.m. I strolled over to Clinton Middle School yesterday. I went to school there. It was Clinton High School then. I walked into the new gym of the old high school, which is now the new middle school. The middle school fields two basketball team, the Red …
Little Things Mean Too Much
At this stage of life, one considers strictly important matters. One questions matters he has blithely accepted for decades. For instance, the word “like” is often used to mean “lack,” as in the great line from Roger Miller’s “Dang Me”: “I like fourteen dollars having twenty-seven cents.” One thinks, why is it “like”? And, then, …
Named to Lose
Luck evens out for most people. Sometimes, though, one bad break begets another, and it all goes into a death spiral. Such was the case of the Scheltonns of Roebuck, Oklahoma. Names were not Frank Scheltonn’s forte. It took a lot of thinking, but one could make a case that the decline and fall …
Time Passages
It won’t be long until proper names will mean nothing. The Big 10 will have 18 teams in football and 22 in other sports. The Big 12 will have eight schools. USC of Los Angeles will join the Atlantic Coast Conference, and USC of Columbia will be in the Mountain West. The House of Representatives …
Nightrider's Lament 