Word: play-by-play
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...Good afternoon, everybody," Kuhn opened the post-mortem like a cheery pathologist or a play-by-play announcer. 'Anything you'd like to talk about...
...will get a 40-page package including national and foreign news, a business section more consumer-oriented than the Journal's, extensive coverage of television, briefer reports on the arts, law, religion, science and other "soft news," plus lots of sports. Gannett promises to provide a play-by-play of each run scored in every major league baseball game. To keep sojourners abreast of events back home, the paper has a two-page spread of news items from each of the 50 states, and a similar state-by-state summary of college, school and amateur sports...
...Detroit, we haven't had any winners, period." Ernie Harwell, the Tiger's play-by-play announcer for more than 25 years, said at Fenway Wednesday...
...they haven't added any seats to the creaky fifth-floor gym, but NBC will broadcast the 1 p.m. contest against Princeton with former Harvard hoop star James Brown '71sharing the play-by-play chores...
...athletic items were likely to include exhaustive reports of lectures, and play-by-play accounts of debates with teams representing Yale and Princeton. In fact only three big stories came up during his spring as managing editor--the selection of Dean Briggs as president of Radcliffe, the establishment of the Godkin lectures, and the announcement that a football stadium would be built on Soldiers Field. No one seemed distressed by the lack of hard news, though, for Roosevelt ascended from managing editor to president the following fall (he had completed the requirements for graduation in three years...