Word: play-by-play
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...They seem to have a compunction to ask consistently if the sport is making it," added Malin. Malin, assistant dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard, provided play-by-play commentary for the videotape that ABC kept of the soccer competition at Harvard. He is also the color commentator for television coverage of the New York Cosmos of the NASL...
...Marines spent their last days in Lebanon doing routine chores like reinforcing the sandbag bunkers they were about to leave behind. They also played football and watched the play-by-play artillery exchanges between rival Lebanese forces. Using sophisticated electronic equipment for pinpointing artillery targets, some passed the time making a sweepstakes of the hits and misses, as Lebanese shells exploded in the nearby mountains. Watching the Shi'ite residents of a Beirut suburb, Second Lieut. John La Torre remarked ruefully, "I guess they're just like other people, except that they...
Earning money for school at a radio station in nearby Worcester. Leary found himself doing color commentary on football. He moved up to the position of full-time play-by-play announcer after graduation...
...novelists could profit from their forebears' achievement by taking close note of one love scene that breaks the pattern. It is a scene in which a Harvard man and a Radcliffe woman enjoy each other's company far from any library, with no preliminary required reading, and without a play-by-play narration of every general-education epiphany. Moreover, as it happens, it is far and away the most celebrated and financially successful love scene in the history of Harvard fiction...
...listener to radio station WHRB's play-by-play took more than a passing interest in the proceedings. "It was killing me in bed here," said Carrabino of the game, "I kept saying, 'Oh, no, don't take that shot...