"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 (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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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 …
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 …
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 …
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ It would be impossible for me not to grow distant from NASCAR. Many top drivers I’ve never met. I still scratch my head at not reading something from somewhere about what to me seems obvious. I never heard of Shane van Gisbergen before. For once, I was not alone. How …
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) https://chsreddevils.com/chs-booster-club-application-2023-2024/ This is “dead week” for high-school sports, a term I’m surprised hasn’t been changed in this humorless age. It is not dead week for dogs because fireworks are going to be going off even if it’s hailing. Tuesday is Independence Day, which occurs with unerring reliability on the Fourth of …
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) Many of my favorite times as a sportswriter occurred during experiences I didn’t have to share with anyone. … … NASCAR race mornings in the press box, chatting and sipping coffee with Benny Parsons or Buddy Baker. … … Sharing a golf cart with Jimmy Spencer or Randy LaJoie. I’d have …
(NASCAR Images) By MONTE DUTTON I think of an old Statler Brothers song this Sunday morning. Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the best of me … From the moment I heard the news that Bruton Smith was taking one North Wilkesboro Speedway race to Texas, and Bob Bahre the other to New …
Clinton, South Carolina, Saturday, June 13, 2020, 9:53 a.m. What have I learned from the great vacant year of 2020? I’ve got plenty of time to ponder this absence of normality. It’s only half over as the calendar flies. The pandemic is a house fire that continues to flare up every time it looks like …
Clinton, South Carolina, Thursday, May 21, 2020, 10:42 a.m. Mainly I have been writing about stock car racing. Mainly stock car racing is what is going on, whether at the dirt track in Laurens or the paved superspeedway in Darlington. The gates aren’t open, but the cars are going around and around. I’m sure there’s …
Nightrider's Lament 