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
Saturday, July 04, 2020
This morning I thought of John Hiatt. I was trying to think about sports in Laurens County. Read more
Thursday, July 02, 2020
It seems like an ironic time to celebrate independence, but we always have, and we always will. Read more
Wednesday, July 01, 2020
People do not know history anymore. Read more
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Everyone is so angry nowadays. Read more
Monday, June 22, 2020
I did not plan on writing another column this morning. Read more
Saturday, June 20, 2020
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
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
One of my favorite colleagues, at least during the time both of us were members of the gypsy troupe that covered stoc… Read more
Monday, June 08, 2020
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
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Not that anyone would mistake what is going on as normal … Read more
Monday, May 25, 2020
It probably seems as if I have written an inordinate amount about NASCAR. Read more
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
The fastest sport is the first to return, and it’s possible by using some weird logic for that to make sense. Read more
Friday, May 15, 2020
I call coaches from time to time, just to see what, if anything, is going on. Read more
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Nothing these days comes without conditions. The times require sacrifice. For about two months, we have sacrificed sp… Read more
Thursday, May 07, 2020
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
Tuesday, May 05, 2020
The sun was out in mid-March. Clinton High School was opening defense of its Class 3A Upstate championship in boys’ t… Read more
Thursday, April 30, 2020
It probably won’t be long until the ballfields are occupied. Little ballplayers will be circling the bases and runnin… Read more
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Oh, the humanity. Read more
Monday, April 20, 2020
The first college football game I covered as a journalist was a home game at Presbyterian College, located only 50 mi… Read more
Thursday, April 16, 2020
It’s already weird. Read more
Monday, April 06, 2020
When the sun comes up on that bright morn Read more
Thursday, April 02, 2020
To paraphrase the late Merle Haggard, no, it’s not racing, but it’s not bad. Read more
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