By MONTE DUTTON A charming mountain general store and café with people enjoying the porch For the first time in short-term memory, no World Cup game was scheduled for Wednesday. The world will survive. We are back at war with Iran. I think the world will survive. It’s so easy to overreact. It just seems …
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For once, Il Duce, let it be
By MONTE DUTTON Exciting World Cup final moment with fans cheering for Argentina versus Brazil. Click here. Slapdash observations from a weekend of watching sports and being American: One of my enduring nitpicks with NASCAR telecasters is their misleading comments on road courses and short tracks. A car slows for a flat turn. The car …
What the World Cup teaches me about the world
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. The World Cup has us running around, trying to think of a reason to say “Turkiye.” The smallest country, by both population and area, ever to play in the World Cup is Curacao. It should be noted that world football has joined virtually every American sporting league in expanding the …
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Soccer on the radio
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I had a new experience on Friday. I listened to soccer on the radio. Serious radio. I mean Sirius. XM may have been involved, too. It was rather stirring, the USA’s 2-0 victory over Australia. I listened to it breathlessly, or maybe I was breathless because I was pulling a …
It’s enough to make a man grimace
By MONTE DUTTON A bewildered England fan navigates vibrant, diverse World Cup fan celebrations. Click here. My first task in watching the World Cup on TV is to determine which team is which. The uniforms often have little to do with the colors on a country’s flag. It helps to read the names on the …
A lot to unpack
By MONTE DUTTON USA leads Mexico 2-1 in a tense World Cup match in Doha. Click here, The USA played Paraguay in the World Cup on Friday night. Paraguay is where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met their fate. Or was that Uruguay? If I wrote a song about Paraguay, I’d have no choice …
The Word Around Here
Clinton, South Carolina, Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 8:56 a.m. When I was growing up, many local businesses closed on Wednesdays. That gradually diminished over time – for a long time, some still closed on Wednesdays at noon – but most locally owned businesses are closed for at least a day each week. Some restaurants that …
Loony Tunes
This morning I learned that a picaroon is a pirate. I already knew a macaroon was a small circular cake. A Cameroon lost to Mexico and Croatia in the World Cup. It’s June. There’s undoubtedly a moon in Rangoon. Daniel Boone was a man, what a big man. Nonetheless, occasionally he hunted raccoons. Beware goons …
Nightrider's Lament 