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Last Friday was a rather triumphant night. Read more
Saturday, December 04, 2021
First of all, and for mostly selfish reasons, I’m going to miss Kevin Kelley. Read more
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Let me begin by answering by far the most frequent question asked me in the past few days. Read more
Saturday, November 20, 2021
The company was good. The barbecue was great. Two deer ran across the road in front of my truck on the way home, and … Read more
Thursday, November 18, 2021
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Clinton. Everybody’s wearing red except Presbyterian College fans, who… Read more
Monday, November 15, 2021
This year I’ve felt, uh, transcendent writing about high school football games. Read more
Sunday, November 14, 2021
After Friday night’s playoff game in Hopkins, I was loitering a bit as the players from Clinton and Lower Richland sh… Read more
Friday, November 12, 2021
Most of the time, I write a column after something rather than before. I write previews before. I am busy before, but… Read more
Thursday, November 11, 2021
A few random observations from a fall of sidelines and press boxes: Read more
Tuesday, November 09, 2021
The wonders seem never to cease. Read more
Thursday, November 04, 2021
Everybody gets down tonight (Friday, that is). Presumably, no one will Wang Chung tonight, but one never knows. Read more
Tuesday, November 02, 2021
Fridays are Saturdays, and Saturdays are Mondays. Sundays are about the same. Read more
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Presbyterian College’s football team did not run onto the Bailey Memorial Stadium grass to lusty boos from the fans o… Read more
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
As football season runs its course, the games get tougher and so does the photography as the high school games now ki… Read more
Sunday, October 24, 2021
The past week has been a blur. Our little company has two full-time employees and three websites. We lost one employe… Read more
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
For the 2nd time this year, I got the right point spread but the wrong winner. Last week I picked Clinton by 1 and Ch… Read more
Monday, October 18, 2021
Football is hard. I’ve played it. I’ve seen it played. I’ve seen it coached. I’ve heard a local coach say it at least… Read more
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Last week was such a rush. Sometimes football games carry me away and I look on in wonderment. Such was the case on b… Read more
Sunday, October 10, 2021
SPARTANBURG – Yours truly, who rails against the idiocy of superstition, was a bit shell-shocked when I walked into G… Read more
Yes, Saturday marked the 3rd consecutive loss for Presbyterian and yes, the Blue Hose have still yet to beat an NCAA … Read more
Thursday, October 07, 2021
As I sat in the audience at the Laurens County Touchdown Club on Thursday, munching a remarkable facsimile of the sam… Read more
Last week I got every game right. I should’ve bought a lottery ticket. My luck was good. Read more
Tuesday, October 05, 2021
Perhaps Presbyterian College did not hire Kevin Kelley as its head football coach solely to put up numbers like no on… Read more
Monday, October 04, 2021
I long for simpler times … Read more
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Last week I picked all three of Laurens County’s football games correctly, and in all three instances the margin was … Read more
Monday, September 27, 2021
A part of me doesn’t think it’s football until right now. Read more
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Like a rubber ball, I come bouncing back to you, ooh-ooh-ooh-OOH. Read more
Monday, September 20, 2021
Sports stuff where it’s probably just me … Read more
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
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