Word: play-by-play
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...spent the rest of the day in press bus seven, looking out the window and listening to the walky-talky play-by-play account of the action up front from the pool reporters, who had been selected to observe the motorcade from within spitting range of the Presidential limousine. Although I did not actually see the events with my own eyes, I know that Nixon left his limousine to autograph a football for a Midget Football team in Mamaroneck; to greet a drum majorette just outside White Plains; to place a wreath at a cemetary in Eastchester...
...moves, when the West Coast wood pushers' victory seemed assured, they revealed that they had used former U.S. Champion Larry Evans to direct their game. This week, with Hillenbrand already at his next assignment in Saigon, Chess Expert Evans is in Reykjavik, Iceland, reporting for TIME the play-by-play drama of the Fischer-Spassky confrontation...
...tried to get a friend who is, like Gary, a football player and an intellectual in his own way, to read End Zone. I suggested he start with the thirty-one page chapter that renders the entire Centrex game play-by-play--an honest and entertaining chunk of fiction, probably the best extended account of a football game ever written. But my friend wouldn't bite, because DeLillo hasn't quite got all the way inside football in this novel, and hasn't got all the way inside the novel form. The tasks aren't mutually exclusive...
Jackson added that most commentators and play-by-play men "are more boosters than reporters...quick to declare the glory on the field, but notably hesitant to mention blunders, especially official blunders...
...elegant ladies peering through pearled opera glasses and vested gentlemen following the play on pocket chess sets. Another 3,000 fans crowded into the lobby, where they could watch and argue each move as it was relayed from the stage to a huge demonstration board. Radio Argentina provided play-by-play coverage, and an international team of reporters filed stories to an estimated 60 million chess players round the world...