Furman All The Time

You know how it is: one thing leads to another.

When Jim Ed rocked the graveyard By MONTE DUTTON Fenway Park, Boston (Pixabay photo) When Clinton High nailed down the Class 3A state baseball championship on May 23, I wrote the 5-4 victory over Hanahan was played in front of the…

A weekend that unquestionably was.

Readin,’ writin’ and watchin’ By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) The weekend was uneventful but worthwhile. I spent most of my time writing my next, and 10th, novel, The Graduate Transfer, which doesn’t get italics until it’s published.…

I've been doing this a long time, during which time I have compiled tendencies, sayings and funnies.

‘Go do that voodoo that you do so well’ By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Rules of the sportswritin’ road: If a coach tells you he doesn’t know what his team’s record is, it ain’t good. The truth is seldom more evident than when being vehe…

End of an era in Furman women's basketball, but in part a continuation.

Paladins make smooth segue with Curtis hire By MONTE DUTTON (Furman graphic) I was thinking Thursday night that the best course for Furman women’s basketball would be to promote Pierre Curtis to succeed Jackie Carson as head coach. Completel…

A way forward.

Gettin’ by on gettin’ by By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) One of my favorite jokes to tell on myself is: Some of the time I’m a writer, but most of the time I’m just a typist. Right now, most of the time I’m a writer.…

On Monday, I inadvertently posted this blog just for subscribers, instead of for public access. This has been remedied.

Victories breed loyalty and contentment By MONTE DUTTON (Elena Davidson photos) Last season was fantastic. Seldom, if ever, has Furman been better at football and men’s basketball at the same time. As no less an observer than Ronnie Mils…

Happy athletes stay and win.

Victories breed loyalty and contentment By MONTE DUTTON (Elena Davidson photos) Last season was fantastic. Seldom, if ever, has Furman been better at football and men’s basketball at the same time. As no less an observer than Ronnie Mils…

Resistance is futile. A MonteDutton.net blog. https://montedutton.net/words-are-comin-round-the-mountain-when-they-come/

Words are comin’ ’round the mountain when they come | Monte Dutton Most writers and readers wish language would slow down, but that’s not the way it develops. If people misuse, mispronounce or misspell a word enough, the word changes to fit its repeated misuse.

Oh, bah, humbug.

Obsolete skills | Monte Dutton I know how to center items manually on a typewritten page, even though I haven’t typewritten a page in quite a while. Tab to the center and backspace once for every two letters. Kids haven’t taken “typing” in many years. They don’t need it. Now they merely learn how to “keystroke,” whi...

This week North Wilkesboro nostalgia is all the rage. I figured I might as well take my shot at it.

Memories of moonshine, etc. (NASCAR Images) By MONTE DUTTON I think of an old Statler Brothers song this Sunday morning. Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the best of me … From the moment I heard the news th…

"I have to sit down. This isn't a scouting assignment. It's The Twilight Zone." Read The Latter Days. Grab a book. Don't cost much.

The Latter Days|Paperback Clyde Kinlaw is a washed-up baseball coach who wants to prove it isn't so.Kinlaw was a good ballplayer who became a loyal company man once he retired. He managed his old team, the Portland Loggers. Now he's a scout who doesn't feel as if the new generation of talent evaluators puts any...

A blog about addition by subtraction, a familiar theme these days.

It’s me again … (Elena Davidson photo) Greetings, nice people. I’m still here. Spring is winter on the Furman landscape. Anna Morgan was the first-round leader in district women’s golf. Riley Ludlam is the SoCon s…