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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
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
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