Word: play-by-play
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There is beer, liquor and wine, and someone in attendance who can give you the play-by-play of the 1925 Harvard-Princeton encounter, a contest, incidentally, in which the Tigers triumphed by a 36-0 margin...
...proper responses ("A commentary mustn't fight the film," "The single biggest problem of television is that everyone talks so much," "The first law of football is that when the teams line up, you go to the play-by-play man"); yet it is he who stuffed the Monday night booth with three garrulous commentators, with only the play-by-play man, Frank Gifford, concentrating on the game, straining to interrupt Cosell's anecdotes, disputatious opinions and constant hype of himself and of coming ABC promotions. Arledge feels no need to take a viewers...
...group so narrowly divided in its choice for President that network oracles had little time for cosmic generalizing. Recapping the fast-shifting vote totals left little air time for analysis. "Who was winning became the analysis," said NBC'S Wald. Voters may have yearned for more than a play-by-play, but on Election Night television when the contest is close, it matters less how a candidate won or lost than when...
Outfielder George Foster provided the play-by-play commentary while Bob Bailey was hitting. Bailey hit a line-drive to the outfield, and Foster screamed, "Oh what a grab by the centerfielder!" Then Bailey slashed one down the third base line, and Foster yelled, "Brooks Robinson dives and gets it!" "They're grabbing everything," Bailey responded...
...stay in touch with play, during every game Finley either dials the press box and gets Traveling Secretary Jim Bank to feed him the details, or he calls a special number at KEEN radio in San Jose to plug in on the play-by-play broadcast. When he hears something he does not like, he is not shy about demanding an explanation...