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North American sports reporting

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North American sports reporting seems to use vernacular to a much greater extent than its British equivalent. I think this is partly because of the stat-heavy nature of NA sports: reports would be deadly dull if there weren't plenty of synonyms for score. But there are words like nifty and dandy which are on their way to being fossilised in the back pages.

This list is meant to focus on general words used in reporting of various sports rather than sport-specific technical terms (e.g. layup or glove stop), which have their equivalent in soccer or any other game. Unless they're really cool, like doorstep.
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wire   was added by yarb and has been listed 13 times with 1 comment
x for y   was added by yarb and has been listed 1 time with 1 comment
play   was added by yarb and has been listed 24 times with 1 comment
pick up   was added by yarb and has been listed 3 times with 1 comment
collect   was added by yarb and has been listed 6 times with 1 comment
drop a decision   was added by yarb and has been listed 1 time with 7 comments
post   was added by yarb and has been listed 13 times with 3 comments
doorstep   was added by yarb and has been listed 3 times with 1 comment
wave off   was added by yarb and has been listed 1 time with 1 comment
dish   was added by yarb and has been listed 6 times with 1 comment
blank   was added by yarb and has been listed 11 times with 1 comment
shutout   was added by yarb and has been listed 1 time with 1 comment
score a tally   was added by yarb and has been listed 1 time with 1 comment
ice   was added by yarb and has been listed 23 times with 1 comment
streak   was added by yarb and has been listed 7 times with 1 comment
storied   was added by yarb and has been listed 5 times with 1 comment
rookie   was added by yarb and has been listed 3 times with 1 comment
nifty   was added by yarb and has been listed 26 times with 2 comments
author   was added by yarb and has been listed 14 times with 1 comment
dandy   was added by yarb and has been listed 43 times with 1 comment
snap   was added by yarb and has been listed 33 times with 3 comments
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7 months ago John said:

Fantastic list! Your mention of the British equivalent reminds me of Keith Talent from "London Fields," usually a barely-intelligible oaf, who snaps into a fluid, fluent, and entirely television-derived announcerese when narrating a darts match.

7 months ago reesetee said:

Great idea, yarb! I've always felt like I needed an English-to-Sports/Sports-to-English dictionary. If I cared enough about sports, that is. ;-)

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