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From: bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee)
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Subject: Re: American sportscasting sucks!
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Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 02:34:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  7 02:34:36 1984
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The sportscasting by ABC to date has been rather shoddy.  They seem to
love incompetence in the broadcasting booth.  It completely escapes me
how *anyone* can tolerate Howard Cosell.

As an ex Cricket Fan (That's a game played over 5 days which can
alternate between being immensely thrilling or incredibly dull), I was
interested in comparing American TV commentary to the Commonwealth
variety seen in Cricket.

The touring teams that came to India would always bring a commentator
along with them.  The home commentator and the guest commentator would
alternate at the microphone during the game delivering the 'running
commentary'.  Objectivity was something to be striven for, though the
inexperienced sportscasters would sometime raise the pitch of their
delivery, etc. whenever 'their' team did something spectacular.

For the record, the best sportscaster I have ever heard in all the
sports I have followed, was a West Indian Cricket commentator by the
name of Tony Cozier.  He was extremely knowledgable, articulate, and
impartial.

Oh Well!  Any other ex Cricket fans out there?  Anyone else understand
what I am talking about?


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