KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011 / SPORTS
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head."
— Karl Malone, NBA.com
FACT OF THE DAY
Sophomore Carolyn Davis is shooting 66.4 percent from the field.She leads the Big 12 and ranks second in the NCAA in field goal percentage.
Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q. What is the series record between Kansas Women's basketball and Colorado?
A. 34-33 in favor of Kansas. Today's game against Colorado will be the first time in history that Kansas plays Colorado in the Big 12 Tournament.
Punctuation and sportscasting
Kansas Athletics
MORNING BREW
Most sportscasters are as gram-
matically incoherent as third
graders after a bloody recess.
graders after a bloody recess. So isn't it odd that they routinely mesh punctuation into seemingly every game they cover?
“[Insert any climactic moment of a game here] really puts the exclamation point on this game,” they say.
The asterisk ( * )
When Manny Ramirez belts a baseball, he sometimes just stands there with his hands up. Other times, he does nothing at all, perhaps forgetting what he's supposed to do next. Most big-leaguers, you know, run after hitting the ball, but not Manny. The immobility is seen by most as laziness and the result of a blown-up ego. An asterisk looks like a star, which is what Manny thinks he is after every whack (or every second of the day). Joe Buck or any another MLB announcer that makes me want to bang my head against a wall might say,
If these sportscasters feel so sure of their grammatical abilities, how would other punctuation marks play a role in this debris-ridden, worn down and poorly located arena?
BY MAX ROTHMAN
mrothman@kansan.com
"And there's asterisk Manny, dreaming on himself and forgetting to run once more."
The guillemets (*o*)
These things that you may have never heard of are essentially the French equivalent of quotation marks. Jeff Van Gundy, a former coach and current ESPN commentator for the NBA, is always talking about his own goofiness. On the contrary, Frenchman and San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker emanates cool. As Parker speeds down the court, Van Gundy might chirp "Look out Lakers, Brits and unsuspecting beautiful women, the guillemet is coming!"
The colon ( : )
Grammatically, the colon functions as an equals sign. After an air-balled three, Marv Albert could say, "Brian Scalabrine is the colon of white skin, red hair and professional basketball." Allow me to enlighten you on the man they call "Scal"
Brian Scalabrine possesses a rare blend of reddish physical features, cheerleader-like pep, NBA roster-worthiness (somehow) and abhorrent basketball skills. A message to the sportscasters of the world: I dare you to breach from the cliché of the exclamation point. Use these examples, or perhaps some of your own. The ampersand. The ellipsis. The solidus. But no matter your choice, speak judiciously and justly. You may discover, clichés aside, that there is only one true way to describe a man like Brian Scalabrine.
Edited by Erin Wilbert
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Women's Basketball Big 12 Championship 11 a.m. Kansas City, Mo.
Baseball
vs. North Dakota
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Men's Golf
Louisiana Classic
All day
Lafayette, La.
WEDNESDAY
TESDAY Baseball
vs. North Dakota
3 p.m.
Lawrence
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UMKC
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Lawrence
Women's Basketball Big 12 Championship 11 a.m. Kansas City, Mo.
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