By MONTE DUTTON Mike Bothwell, triumphant (Elena Davidson photo) Click here. I see lots of celebrations. The baseball ones, I think, are the best and most dangerous, albeit no precincts report these days at Furman. Basketball players are prone to exult in somewhat smaller groups. A single pair of eyes cannot capture the scene fully. …
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Holiday observations and recollections
By MONTE DUTTON Laurens catcher Bennett Edwards during the national anthem (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Baseball had quite a run in Laurens County, and it’s weird to write that before it’s June, but I’ve got to acclimate myself to the rest of it because mostly I’ve been paying attention to the Blue Hose, Raiders …
County Lines: PC baseball deserves more than it gets
By MONTE DUTTON Charlie McDaniel (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Not enough people realize what Presbyterian College baseball has just done. Going to work on the Blue Hose’ sweep of UNC Asheville on Friday, I anxiously awaited the local news. PC won the Big South regular season for the first time in history, that being …
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County Signs: Darlington, Dogs and Raiders
By MONTE DUTTON Zay Pulley is a dangerous leadoff man and a fine center fielder. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. A lot of my early trips to Darlington Raceway were in the spring. The first race I saw there was on Labor Day, but I was occupied practicing football on that Monday for the next …
Memories of the Great Jimmy Mac
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Click here. I lost a buddy and a traveling companion when Jimmy Mac died on Friday the 15th, which must be bad luck in March this year, no doubt a result of Leap Year. I feared for his health in the back of my mind. Suppressed it, a shrink might …
The gallant young daredevils of Daytona Beach
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Click here. I don’t often spend as much time in a day and night watching automobile races anymore. Once the Xfinity race in Daytona Beach, Fla., had been rained out on Saturday and rained out at 11 a.m. Monday and finally conducted sometime around 9 p.m., I had most of …
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The old, gray track just ain’t what she used to be
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ On Wednesday, I pronounced myself unfit to go to ballgames. I went to one Tuesday night, but whether by the last throes of shingles, my horror at the shooting in Kansas City or watching the unexpected loss of the Clinton High boys, I didn’t feel well. By no means …
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Friendly places, smiling faces …
Darlington Raceway (NASCAR Images) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants I’m going to miss a unique opportunity to go to my three favorite places in the next four nights. I’ll be at Paladin Stadium to write about Furman playing Tennessee Tech on Thursday at 7. I’m going to be at Wilder Stadium to write about Clinton High playing Newberry on …
Are you ready to rumble?
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) There's an old baseball movie called It Happens Every Spring. https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges It happens every fall, too. When I was growing up / The biggest thing around our town / Was watching my old high school play / They didn't mess around. Before the week is over, all the football …
Up close and televised
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Brian Harman is a small, bald man from Savannah, Ga., who came from just this side of nowhere on Sunday in Hoylake, England, to win his third PGA Tour event ever. It was a major. The Open Championship, or, since we have an Open across the pond, too, the British …
Nightrider's Lament 