Years from now, we’re going to peruse these sports photos from the Time of COVID and be mystified. Read more
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Football is being played in the spring, at least for smaller colleges across the country. One of them is Presbyterian… Read more
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Sunday, February 14, 2021
The Daytona 500 is NASCAR’s iconic race. Let me count the ways I miss it. Read more
Friday, February 05, 2021
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – When I get out of Laurens County, I’m like a bucking horse let loose from his stall. Read more
Saturday, January 30, 2021
I was mostly unaware of women’s basketball for two decades. Read more
Monday, January 25, 2021
I scream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream. Read more
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Big Don was there the night Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run. Every time I saw him – almost always at Steamers for b… Read more
Saturday, January 16, 2021
The Red Devils went off to Inman in tandem and fell that way in losses to Chapman. Camels stampeded the Presbyterians… Read more
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
By the fourth quarter of Monday night’s national championship game, I was watching something else. Read more
Monday, January 11, 2021
Sports. I write about sports. This site is about sports. Read more
Friday, January 01, 2021
The late, great, Lord-I-really-miss-him Jerry Jeff Walker wrote a song called “Derby Day.” Read more
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
It would be wise if I wrote some form of blog, or at least a Facebook post of some substance, every morning. I genera… Read more
Monday, December 21, 2020
Johnny Carson used to be fond of saying, “That’s some wild stuff.” Read more
Saturday, December 19, 2020
The world always changes, but this awful, eventful Year of the Coronavirus has been rapid-fire, man. I’d count the wa… Read more
Thursday, December 17, 2020
I watched a basketball game alone for the first time. The women’s teams of Presbyterian and Gardner-Webb are playing … Read more
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Sometimes a man can be busy not doing his work. Sometimes it’s tiring. Read more
Sunday, December 06, 2020
As silly as this may seem, I’m going to accentuate the positive. I’m going to be the little boy at Christmas who smel… Read more
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Just some random observations as the great Thanksgiving weekend sends an almost never-ending series of crummy ballgam… Read more
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
For the first time in quite a while, I listened to the thump-thump-thump of basketballs bouncing off the floor on Monday. Read more
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Talkin’ football, Al Richard, Corey Fountain, talkin’ football, Charles Waddell was a mountain, Spangler, Smith and P… Read more
Saturday, November 14, 2020
HOLLY HILL – It was a bitter loss because that comes naturally when a team has achieved so much. Read more
Sunday, November 08, 2020
Now it’s all down to Laurens Academy, the only one of the county’s football teams that remains alive. Read more
Friday, November 06, 2020
All week long, I’ve been wrestling in my mind with NASCAR. So much of my life has been invested in it. In the eight s… Read more
Friday, October 30, 2020
Nostradamus I’m not. Read more
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Thomas Johnson is one of those crucial people who, behind the scenes, keeps the world turning in all walks of life. H… Read more
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Much has been made of the declining TV ratings across all sports. Read more
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
I like people. It’s not always to my benefit, but I like to hear what readers think even when I don’t always agree wi… Read more
Saturday, October 10, 2020
At the Laurens County Touchdown Club on Thursday, Atlantic Coast Conference referee Gary (not at TCU) Patterson, revi… Read more
Friday, October 09, 2020
A few weeks ago, Gary Patterson was headed to the Grand Strand on an off weekend from his usual pastime, referring At… Read more
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
It’s been a while since I’ve written a column outside the bounds of local sports, so I’ll glean some observations tha… Read more
Saturday, September 26, 2020
As I walked across the new-fangled turf at J.W. Babb Stadium, I thought about how I wished I had football games to co… Read more
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Uh, oh. The dominoes are falling again. Read more
Friday, September 11, 2020
I wish I wasn’t worried about a false sense of security. Read more
Saturday, September 05, 2020
It seems as if the Charleston Post & Courier seldom writes a story about Mount Pleasant without referring to it a… Read more
Sunday, August 30, 2020
I was just getting started, too. Read more
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Here today, gone tomorrow. Read more
Saturday, August 22, 2020
It’s important to perceive uniqueness. A happy man (or woman) feels as if he has some something no one else has. It d… Read more
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
I’m not a betting man, but I don’t have anything morally against it. It just takes the fun out of sports, which I lov… Read more
Friday, August 14, 2020
The appointment book is a mess, just like 2020. Read more
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
From across the booth over breakfast, a friend says, “These masks? We’re going to be wearing them next March.” Read more
Thursday, August 06, 2020
Perhaps the biggest reason for the confusion regarding high school football this fall is that the S.C. High School Le… Read more
Saturday, August 01, 2020
Just off U.S. Hwy. 76 (Laurens District High School), off S.C. 72 (Clinton High) and S.C. 49 (Laurens Academy), they’… Read more
Friday, July 31, 2020
All bets are off. No one knows when it bottoms out and sports come alive again. Oh, it’s stirring around in empty rac… Read more
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Monday seemed calm. I was working on placement of a new ad and thinking, as I have been for months, about putting the… Read more
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Wednesday was supposed to be “Hump Day,” which is not any kind of holiday because it happens every week. It’s the mid… Read more
Saturday, July 18, 2020
Ah, it’s not going to be that bad. Read more
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Aiden Bragg is a 10-year-old boy, slight and bespectacled, who happens to enjoy hitting dimpled little balls around a… Read more
Thursday, July 09, 2020
My father had four principal cliches. Read more
Tuesday, July 07, 2020
In the imagination of William Shakespeare, Mark Antony said of Julius Caesar, “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” Read more
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