Words That Sportswriters Use That Make Me Cringe

Is the school fight song "It's a Hard Knock Life?"

 

Catch radius.

 

Arm talent. Eye discipline.

 

And the old school daily double of "one knee equals two feet" and "the ground can't cause a fumble."

 

Kentucky has a few.

Bardstown Bethlehem Eagles and Banshees (girls)

Owensboro Apollo Eagles and E-Gals (girls)

Meade County Green Wave and Lady Waves (girls)

Louisville Collegiate Titans and Amazons (girls)

Lexington Frederick Douglass Broncos (both genders)

 

Tuddy.

 

"Fan base"

Aaaarrrgh

 

(Team nickname goes here) Nation.

 

Strike that every time. Without fail.

 

This is not a phrase sportswriters use but instead the people who write the earnings press releases for publishers. The phrase "(company) has completed a transformative quarter" in a reference to their quarterly electronic publishing revenues. This is then followed by a statistic about how electronic revenues have increased as a percentage of overall revenues. Indeed they have, because print revenues have declined by a bunch while electronic revenues have declined by a little.