Sports Talk
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Sports Talk: How It Has Penetrated Our Everyday Language
By Colin McNairnHad Drew Pearson dropped Staubach's pass or Gerard Phelan dropped Flutie's pass, could it have been put down to divine non-intervention or, more ominously, divine intervention? If you were to get fussed over this philosophical question, ...
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Sports Talk: A Journey Inside the World of Sports Talk Radio
By Alan EisenstockHe created, in effect, a business model for himself. Then he applied it. His target was SportsFan radio itself, the radio network based in Las Vegas. Charlie Barker, program director of SportsFan, was the man JT put in his sights.
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Sports Talk: A Dictionary of Sports Metaphors
By Robert Allen Palmatier, Harold Lloyd Rayprovide[s] informative and entertaining browsing, depicting how filled our language is with sports metaphors, many of whose derivations are little known: `the devil to pay, ' `hazard a guess, '...
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Sports Talk
By Colin McNairntalking.” In a major exception, a professional basketball player usually has to complement his on-court ... With “cheerleaders” and “fans” behind us, we're now suitably poised to take a shot at some specific spectator sports.
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Sports Talk
By Lisa BeckelhimerSports infiltrate nearly every aspect of our society--mass media, the economy, our bonds with friends and strangers, our language, politics, industry, and international relations--and this lively anthology provides a foundation for critical ...