Word: play-by-play
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...Russell D. Rivera '00 is the play-by-play announcer. All season long, he's been offering play-by-play commentary on WHRB for fans listening at home in Cambridge. Russell's been covering football since 1996, and he's not too keen on the idea of this being his final Harvard-Yale Game...
...former colleagues at CBS, who are claiming that he was negotiating with Mann to make a film about the Wigand blowup even while it was going on. "It was apparent to anybody in the editing room," says Wallace, "that he was frequently on the telephone [to Mann] with a play-by-play while he was producing the piece for us." Bergman insists he didn't start thinking about making the story into a film until after Wallace told him he was about to be fired by Hewitt for having brought Wigand--then the subject of a false smear...
...editor-at-large at Esquire. Put off by the industry's obsession with celebrity and circulation, Eggers left Esquire to start McSweeney's, a quarterly journal stocked with quirky pieces that are impossible to categorize. The latest issue features "Supreme Court Basketball" in which cases are retold in play-by-play with (basketball) court diagrams, and "Fire: The Next Sharp Stick?" which chronicles a Neanderthal board meeting. Instead of advertisements, McSweeney's offers its tongue-in-cheek "marketplace" of mail-order items: "#89, Used Lamp Bought at the Salvation Army Outlet and Hand-Delivered to Your Home...
...national pastime, but one that a majority of fans followed from afar. The 16 major league teams were clustered in only 10 cities, with St. Louis as the westernmost outpost. In that pre-television era, sports heroes were made out of words, those spoken over the radio during play-by-play broadcasts and those printed in newspapers the next morning. No wonder legends arose. Most people experienced baseball by reading adventure stories in the daily press or by listening, the way the ancient Greeks did, to the voices of the bards...
Marv Albert's return to national broadcasting means that the best basketball play-by-play man in the business is getting a second chance. It means that the lumpy brown recliner in the corner will again have Marv's patented, "Yes!" as company in the nation's living rooms...