Word: play-by-play
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...dramatic stories of the games so far has been Greg Louganis' gold medal victory in springboard diving after smashing his head on the diving board in a preliminary round. During his final dives, Louganis was forced into a split screen with a basketball game, whose announcers were doing the play-by-play. If NBC wanted to give us a sense that there is a lot going on at the same time, they succeeded. But who wants to hear about a missed free throw in the first few minutes of a basketball match when one could be concentrating...
Heard On The Tube: During a Philadelphia Flyers-Calgary Flames telecast, Flyers' play-by-play announcer Gene Hart and analyst Bobby Taylor struck up a conversation...
...early broadcasting partners, Dick Stockton, says flatly, "Nobody else is even in his league. You know why? He sees through things." Six years ago, Madden joined Pat Summerall in the broadcast booth, and they have become an institution. Summerall, a former New York Giants place-kicker, smoothly handles the play-by-play and generously provides Professor Madden time to explain what just happened...
Anyway, the game started, and I noticed that only one WCHC announcer had arrived--the "color man" was missing. This one guy was having a devil of a time by himself, spouting play-by-play a mile a minute at the same time he tried to give some background on the game...
...make matters worse, he didn't know who any of the Harvard players (or most of the Holy Cross players) were. His play-by-play went something like this: "Okay, there's a hand-off to a Harvard back, he cuts, gets a couple yards, and is brought down by a host of Cross tacklers. Okay, second down and a bunch now, there's a pitch wide right to...and so, no, he's met by a gang of tacklers, and loses a few yards...