Word: man-to-man
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...moment that Timothy Grouse published his colorful 1973 critique, The Boys on the Bus, which portrayed many campaign reporters as engaging in passive, unimaginative "pack journalism," major news organizations have searched for other ways to cover the candidates. For this primary season, the Washington Post has switched from "man-to-man" to "zone" coverage: reporters are assigned to regions of the country, and join up with each candidate in succession as he travels through. The Post's Martin Schram, a veteran of the past four campaigns, takes that approach a step further: whenever possible he rents...
...backcourt, Bob Ferry controlled the pace of the Crimson attack. At the charity stripe, the nation's leading free-throw shooter sank eight of his attempts, hitting the rim once. Ferry also prevented All-American Johnny Dawkins from scoring once the Crimson went man-to-man towards...
...nominated Coach Tom Flores as this year's genius. But Tom just smiled and said, "Einstein was a genius; I'm a football coach." To Flores, football is not mysterious. "The Raiders play attack football: with the bomb or the threat of the bomb on offense, with man-to-man coverage on defense. We draft and trade for toughness...
During the second half, Harvard connected on its shots at a respectable 52 percent clip, but could never get back into the game despite the field goal improvement and a switch from zone to man-to-man defense...
...that's not to say that Springfield ran away with the game. The Crimson kept in close contact on the scoreboard, rarely slipping behind by more than two baskets. And it managed, as it has all season, to keep up the exhausting man-to-man defense...