"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 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 …
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(PC photo) Click here. To paraphrase an old television show no less erudite than Hee Haw, “If it weren’t for bad luck, [they’d] have no luck at all.” Drake, protecting first place in the Pioneer Football League, defeated Presbyterian, 19-16, in overtime, at Bailey Memorial Stadium on a cool autumn Saturday that was otherwise perfect. …
By MONTE DUTTON Moon over Todd Kirk Field (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I went back and forth all week long. I wanted to go to Landrum, where I have never seen a football game but once played in a scrimmage. Also, I wanted to get to another Laurens Academy game because the Crusaders entered …
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By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I have spoken many times with Steve Englehart about getting Presbyterian College football over the proverbial hump. The issue may be the majority of our conversations. The issue still burns. When a coach says his team has to learn how to win, it seems redundant. Duh. It’s …
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By MONTE DUTTON Click here. It’s a good thing I don’t bet. I thought South Carolina had no chance in Tuscaloosa a week after Vandy beat the Tide in Nashville. I thought the Commodores would be unable to recreate the magic in Lexington, Ky. I was wrong on both counts. The Gamecocks didn’t win, but …
By MONTE DUTTON Javaye Suber evades Southside's Zaccheaus Dickson (photo courtesy John Clayton). Click here. I haven’t read The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone. I saw the movie starring Charlton Heston. It doesn’t matter. The chronology was off in Laurens County football this weekend. The ecstasy came first. For the first time, all …
Continue reading County Signs: Fun on Friday, done on Saturday
By MONTE DUTTON Quante Jennings rushed for 52 yards at San Diego (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Criticize it if you will. Bemoan the absence of scholarships. The Pioneer Football League is a tough slog for every school in it. Presbyterian College is 0-2 after competitive losses to two PFL powers, Davidson and San Diego. …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. It’s Oct. 7, and I don’t know where my sports are. Even on the Fourth of July, I don’t think I knew less about what was happening and where. The games are almost listed as “day to day,” which as Vin Scully used to say, is just like everything else. …
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. On Saturday morning I shaved for the first time in a while and prepared for what has become the bane of my existence, the cold shower. Then, however, I noticed a truck parked in my overgrown front yard. It was from Front Royal, Va., meaning either that it …
Jalen Patrick (PC photo) Click here. To summarize, nothing is going on. Not in Laurens County … unless you booked a flight to San Diego, Calif., where the Blue Hose went. Since my power went out, I opened offices all over the county: Whiteford’s in Laurens, three Bojangles, the Clinton Public Library for a day, …
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Nightrider's Lament 