Talkin’ football, Al Richard, Corey Fountain, talkin’ football, Charles Waddell was a mountain, Spangler, Smith and Plowden, we knew ’em all from Ekom Beach to Lanford, whether Raider, Devil or Crusader, the Blue Hose represent our equator.* Read more
HOLLY HILL – It was a bitter loss because that comes naturally when a team has achieved so much. Read more
Now it’s all down to Laurens Academy, the only one of the county’s football teams that remains alive. Read more
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
Nostradamus I’m not. Read more
Thomas Johnson is one of those crucial people who, behind the scenes, keeps the world turning in all walks of life. H… Read more
Much has been made of the declining TV ratings across all sports. Read more
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
At the Laurens County Touchdown Club on Thursday, Atlantic Coast Conference referee Gary (not at TCU) Patterson, revi… Read more
A few weeks ago, Gary Patterson was headed to the Grand Strand on an off weekend from his usual pastime, referring At… Read more
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
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
Uh, oh. The dominoes are falling again. Read more
I wish I wasn’t worried about a false sense of security. Read more
It seems as if the Charleston Post & Courier seldom writes a story about Mount Pleasant without referring to it a… Read more
I was just getting started, too. Read more
Here today, gone tomorrow. Read more
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
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
The appointment book is a mess, just like 2020. Read more
From across the booth over breakfast, a friend says, “These masks? We’re going to be wearing them next March.” Read more
Perhaps the biggest reason for the confusion regarding high school football this fall is that the S.C. High School Le… Read more
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
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
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
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
Ah, it’s not going to be that bad. Read more
Aiden Bragg is a 10-year-old boy, slight and bespectacled, who happens to enjoy hitting dimpled little balls around a… Read more
My father had four principal cliches. Read more
In the imagination of William Shakespeare, Mark Antony said of Julius Caesar, “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” Read more
This morning I thought of John Hiatt. I was trying to think about sports in Laurens County. Read more
It seems like an ironic time to celebrate independence, but we always have, and we always will. Read more
People do not know history anymore. Read more
Everyone is so angry nowadays. Read more
I did not plan on writing another column this morning. Read more
On Saturday morning, I got up, flipped on the TV and the first words I heard were those of MSNBC’s Katy Tur, who said… Read more
One of my favorite colleagues, at least during the time both of us were members of the gypsy troupe that covered stoc… Read more
At the end of a NASCAR race, in this strange time in which we live, the winning driver guns his engine, whirls the st… Read more
Not that anyone would mistake what is going on as normal … Read more
It probably seems as if I have written an inordinate amount about NASCAR. Read more
The fastest sport is the first to return, and it’s possible by using some weird logic for that to make sense. Read more
I call coaches from time to time, just to see what, if anything, is going on. Read more
Nothing these days comes without conditions. The times require sacrifice. For about two months, we have sacrificed sp… Read more
First things first. What is a Dutch fork? A Dutch oven is a thick-walled cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid. More t… Read more
The sun was out in mid-March. Clinton High School was opening defense of its Class 3A Upstate championship in boys’ t… Read more
It probably won’t be long until the ballfields are occupied. Little ballplayers will be circling the bases and runnin… Read more
Oh, the humanity. Read more
The first college football game I covered as a journalist was a home game at Presbyterian College, located only 50 mi… Read more
It’s already weird. Read more
When the sun comes up on that bright morn Read more
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