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Thursday, September 16, 2021
As I said to myself last week, “My kingdom for a full schedule!” Read more
Sunday, September 12, 2021
My latest theory is that, for some mysterious reason or perhaps God’s sense of humor, climate change and football sco… Read more
Saturday, September 11, 2021
I probably shouldn’t sit in grandstands. I’ve sat in press boxes so long I don’t know how to behave, so, to placate m… Read more
Thursday, September 09, 2021
Madness! Madness! Read more
It was a strange feeling at Thursday’s meeting of the Laurens County Touchdown Club. Read more
Sunday, September 05, 2021
I could be wrong, but after Furman’s 29-18 victory over North Carolina A&T, Clay Hendrix never once said, “We got… Read more
Kevin Kelley’s biggest fear on the football field is getting shut out. He remembers getting shut out in 2005 while at… Read more
Thursday, September 02, 2021
A high school coach told me that, in his opinion, COVID II: The Variant, is worse than the original witch’s brew. Read more
The silver lining on my football pick’ems is that there aren’t many games for me to miss. Read more
Saturday, August 28, 2021
As I drove through Laurens in the truck, I thought of riding through Laurens on a bus. It was 1974, my junior year at… Read more
Friday, August 27, 2021
Last week I missed the Clinton margin by 5 points, Laurens by 2 and Laurens Academy by, uh, 48. Read more
Prior to Friday night’s showdown between the Clinton Red Devils and the Laurens Raiders, the cross country teams at b… Read more
Monday, August 23, 2021
The annual football game between Laurens County rivals Laurens and Clinton is bigger than it has been in a while. Read more
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
This fall is going to be less fun for the football players. Read more
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Here it comes again. Damn it. And the same people who have been two weeks from dead wrong for, oh, 18 months or so, a… Read more
Tuesday, August 03, 2021
Friends, are you like me? Do you have this sensation that everything is spinning out of control? I’m talking about ev… Read more
Thursday, July 29, 2021
From a considerable distance, what I mainly remember about high school football practice is … squinting. Read more
Saturday, July 24, 2021
There’s always something to do in this little 3-principality duchy that made me an insignificant duke, or would if co… Read more
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
I love college sports, but I think many agree that the NCAA is a terrible organization. It makes around $1 billion in… Read more
Saturday, July 17, 2021
Somehow, it’s always interesting. Read more
Monday, July 12, 2021
Let’s get this out of the way early. Women’s sports are incredibly entertaining, and female athletes are not second-c… Read more
Saturday, July 10, 2021
Honestly, just back from the Family Dollar on a steamy morning, I wonder why I am striving to build a network of loca… Read more
Sunday, July 04, 2021
I sat down to write this column after one of the most hectic 3-day stretches of my life. I’ve just successfully moved… Read more
Friday, June 25, 2021
Kevin Kelley is charming, but he’s not a charmer. I admire charm, but I distrust charmers. Read more
Monday, June 21, 2021
Can we all agree that it doesn’t matter as much if it isn’t a great game – or in this case, a great race – if who one… Read more
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
What we’re doing here is not easy. Read more
Wednesday, June 09, 2021
I’ve been watching sports a long time. On Tuesday, I started thinking about the only baseball team I ever coached. I … Read more
Saturday, May 29, 2021
ANDERSON – I’ve got a new website, ElectricCitySports.com, in Anderson County. Read more
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Oh, it was a late night on the high-school baseball beat. Even when I stay up late, I still get up early, not because… Read more
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
This is about neither Presbyterian College, Tommy Spangler nor Kevin Kelley. Read more
Saturday, May 08, 2021
Many adjectives come to mind when I meditate about my hometown, but I don’t recall one of them ever being “weird” until now. Read more
Tuesday, May 04, 2021
Occasionally I place my index fingers on the protrusions that guard the entrances to my ears and push, thus reducing … Read more
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
It’s been a week since Presbyterian College admitted it had fired Tommy Spangler. It has been eight days since it fir… Read more
Friday, April 23, 2021
On the day before he was fired as Presbyterian College head football coach, Tommy Spangler obviously had no inkling o… Read more
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
If I had awakened to the strong rumors making the rounds Tuesday, and it was April Fool’s Day, I would have understood. Read more
Thursday, April 15, 2021
On Sunday, I had the opportunity to take a trip to Atlanta and catch a Braves game at Truist Park. The Braves played … Read more
Monday, April 12, 2021
It’s a long way from Clinton to Des Moines. It sounds like the words of a song. Read more
Wednesday, April 07, 2021
Things are getting back to normal. Read more
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
I got home on Monday in time to watch the latter half of the NASCAR dirt race that was “mudded out” on Sunday. I enjo… Read more
Monday, March 22, 2021
It seems as if there have been many more upsets in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament than last year. Read more
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
The title of a movie comes to mind when I think of Tommy Spangler. Read more
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Kailey Cheeks has compiled quite the list of plaudits at Newberry Academy, where she stars in volleyball and basketball. Read more
Farewell, sweet game of basketball. Maybe next season. It’s so much sweeter when they win. Read more
Thursday, March 04, 2021
The Chinese were kicking a soccer ball 200 years before Christ was born. Nobody told me about it until the late 1950s. Read more
Thursday, February 25, 2021
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
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