Track announcers had been around forever, back before P.A. systems existed, and "leather lungs," as the announcers were known, called races through megaphones.
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When Spanish Names (Don't) Flummox English-Speaking Announcers With more Spanish-speaking players than ever in the M.L.B., public-address announcers and broadcasters weigh how faithful to pronounce Spanish names.
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One of the greatest managers and announcers in WWE history.
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Announcers repeatedly mistake the product, calling it Pepsi on air.
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One of ESPN's announcers, Eduardo Perez, played a special role.
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Many of the announcers calling the games for Fox Sports.
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Some announcers thought they were Laurence Olivier performing King Lear.
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"Finally he's going to do it," one of the announcers yelled.
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Half the time, the announcers have to guess what's going on.
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Sitting at the game was boring because the announcers weren't good.
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Not even the announcers knew what to make of this look.
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One of the most talented announcers of his generation is gone.
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That means announcers, sideline reporters, multiple camera angles, replays and graphics.
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And that's despite the network using remote announcers to broadcast some games.
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In some cases, the announcers are explicitly pointing viewers toward the ad.
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No announcers, wide-shots of the team or crowd angles will stream.
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The announcers are trying to figure out if it's a live ball.
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Lavalier mics, which attach to clothing like those worn by TV announcers?
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TV, whose announcers receive a steady flow of Statcast-generated talking points.
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" Two years later, he wrote that there should be "no women announcers.
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He has encouraged them to consider careers as announcers, judges or coaches.
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Some announcers come here and start announcing and never visit the pits.
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" — JIMMY KIMMEL "[Imitating game show announcers] 'Tell the president what he's won!
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For today's podcast announcers, it's a return to the good old days.
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I guarantee we would not be discussing sexist rants by announcers ever again.
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Pump up music blares over the speakers before the announcers take the mic.
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"Now the Invictus Games flag is approaching the stadium," announcers told the crowd.
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There were also PA announcers who jumped from Chinese, Russian, to occasionally, English.
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"It's the hostile takeover of Donald Trump!" announcers shriek, as Trump pounds McMahon.
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That accent was learned from imitating BBC News announcers on a cassette recorder.
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And yes, of course they brought in esports announcers to narrate the action.
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He had announcers and teammates alike trying to put him in historical context.
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Are there other announcers out there who have been afraid to do this?
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Radio announcers and coverage on Amazon-owned Twitch also featured different coverage perspectives.
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Television announcers warned residents to remain indoors, avoid driving and cover air intakes.
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It was the kind of empty, upbeat comment announcers make all the time.
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The move was obviously a gimmick, and was played up by the announcers.
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" In another column in 2003, Moore again wrote there should be "no women announcers.
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The option to hear British announcers alone makes the Amazon feed superior to broadcast.
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Brady, of course, pitches a fit, which announcers say is reflective of his competitiveness.
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The announcers are begging Giancarlo to hit a ball into the Padres' giant screen.
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I'm heartened by the number of women who are now baseball analysts and announcers.
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The conclusion: Announcers use coded language to talk about athletes that perpetuates racial stereotypes.
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How many times will "dab" or dabbing be said by the announcers during the broadcast?
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Nonetheless, the announcers said again and again that in many respects AlphaStar was breathtakingly humanlike.
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We discussed the Super Bowl "selfie kid" and those very annoying sports announcers from 2015.
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You might think the Winter Olympics are exciting, but you've got nothing on these announcers.
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Everything about the match — the shots, the baffled announcers, the wardrobes — is painful to watch.
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He pulled off one daring pass after another, sending the announcers into fits of enthusiasm.
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And gripping programs they were, too, full of softspeaking announcers and occasionally hard-drinking players.
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And gripping programs they were, full of soft-spoken announcers and occasionally hard-drinking players.
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In Congress today, there are as many rodeo announcers as there are trade union members.
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Of course, the Chinese announcers make it all sound even cooler (at least to Western ears).
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In the early days of the BBC, women were not allowed to be announcers or newsreaders.
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Sahara said the technology has been a hit with both fans and the on-air announcers.
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" And in 2001, Moore wrote, "Another problem is that CBS now has women announcers and commentators.
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But tell that to the actual announcers who've been calling these games for years and years.
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The Super Bowl broadcast in China featured Chinese graphics and announcers explaining the rules and plays.
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A Sunday afternoon game featuring announcers carrying water for teams is the opposite of an event.
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She's at the top of a roster of 25 female announcers on the network's talent page.
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Think of two announcers often thought of as baseball's greatest before Vincent Edward Scully succeeded them.
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Experts, non-experts, analysts, ornithologists, announcers, hairstylists, people who make shit up on the internet, everyone.
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Even top announcers like Joe Buck, Al Michaels, Aikman and Collinsworth elicit contempt week to week.
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Once the Lao team had a 15-0 lead, he and the announcers revised that outlook.
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She became a member of the Announcers Club, reading messages over the school's central sound system.
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And gripping programs they were, too, full of soft-spoken announcers and occasionally hard-drinking players.
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Each of the 30 teams in the majors has just a small crew of radio announcers.
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We have combined all 169 impassioned cries by Telemundo's announcers into one lung-bursting goal call.
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That means, for example, that although women make up 23% of announcers (think about the voices you hear while watching a football game or the voice that tells you what's up next on your favorite radio station), they were only 12% of people pictured as announcers.
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The VR broadcasts will be fully produced with dedicated announcers, multiple camera angles, and optimized VR graphics.
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She told The Baltimore Sun that she gets her baseball fix by listening to the radio announcers.
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The professional figured skaters showed up looking like announcers for The Hunger Games and Twitter was shook.
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CBS produced all 16 and put its lead announcers, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms, on the broadcasts.
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While the game was being played, the announcers couldn't stop talking about Zion Williamson, who wasn't playing.
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So we have to accommodate 25 announcers broadcasting in Japanese and Russian and German and so on.
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Everyone from legendary announcers Verne Lundquist, Ernie Johnson and Bill Raftery to CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus.
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The ring announcers at Rangsit Stadium introduced him as a forward fighting fighter with incredible KO potential.
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The Super Bowl broadcast in China will feature Chinese graphics and announcers explaining the rules and plays.
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" From the Washington Post: "Cuban television announcers used buzzwords such as 'unity' and 'continuity' in their broadcasts.
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This year, it will be given to a local announcers from an existing Major League Baseball market.
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It's unclear what happened, but one of the announcers mentions he has a history of battling vertigo.
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Announcers believe that Sullivan is thinking of challenging the Fisher goal for offside, but that's not it.
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Each rights-holder will air the game differently, with a different set of hosts, announcers, and analysts.
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As it got closer to 10, the crowd searched the faces of the NBC announcers for clues.
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Trump could also join the announcers at Mid-Atlantic Sports Network to call part of the game.
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So I am recently unable to listen to certain female announcers who run shows on cable news.
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For some, this year's World Cup was their first time to delight in how announcers say his name.
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But finding those moments, the ones that sports fans and announcers frequently call "posterizations," on an actual poster?
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And he will be interviewed by CBS announcers Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson during the game's third quarter.
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" "I am watching two clown announcers on @FoxNews as they try to build up failed presidential candidate #LittleMarco.
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It began experimenting with a more lavish production, building out the battlefield with lights, music, and live announcers.
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As there are for all announcers of his vintage, there is a trove of missing baseball calls, too.
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John Wall jumped up on the announcers' table, tore at his jersey, and roared to the elated crowd.
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Further flavor is added by the announcers whose background chatter picks apart every move seconds after it's made.
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Any time a series promises announcers will say "Original Six" at least 50 times, it ain't for me.
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Here in Belgium, though, there were proper videographers and photographers, spotlights and speakers, announcers, European ring card girls.
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He continued to call almost every home and road game, a grueling schedule for announcers half his age.
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McMahon insists there will be no crossover between the WWE and the XFL -- which means completely different announcers.
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They have even traded for announcers: Ernie Harwell cost the Brooklyn Dodgers a player, Cliff Dapper, in 1948.
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This played out perfectly for a media firestorm and the FOX announcers were all too eager to stoke it.
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The announcers genuinely forgot him, and had to backtrack to admit sheepishly that he should be heading out too.
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More than a million cheering and screaming fans, along with bands, DJs, and announcers, line the 153-mile course.
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When most announcers go on the road, they use a stage manager and cameraman provided by the local ballclub.
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For making the Atlanta Braves announcers and their talk of "white flags" sound like jackasses, he deserves it alone.
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Note how even the announcers are confused when the horn sounds in that clip—that's how rare it is.
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NFL announcers also often erroneously referred to the Surface devices as an iPad -- the competing tablet from Apple (AAPL).
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The announcers at the coliseum marveled as fans stood up in turns, waving their arms at Mr. Henderson's direction.
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The game was, in the parlance of hyperventilating announcers, an "instant classic," only this time, the phrase wasn't hyperbole.
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Television announcers urged people trapped in their homes to put up pieces of fabric as a signal to rescuers.
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Once she signaled that this would be a competitive match, the enthusiasm of the fans and the announcers grew.
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I've rewatched that goal so many times that I can hear the announcers in my head, word for word.
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He noticed that football game announcers on TV commented on athletes in different ways depending on the athlete's race.
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According to the NBC announcers, Leyva plans to retire from gymnastics and move to Los Angeles to become an actor.
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White says he's not a fan of announcers ripping pro fighters -- but acknowledges that everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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Thankfully, the dog's appearance in the competition didn't affect any of the competitors, it just made the race announcers' day.
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At the very last moment, though, Miller dove forward, leaving the announcers flummoxed as to who had won the race.
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"Cell Yells," war cries popularized by one of the FighterZ characters, rolled through the audience; announcers keeping the cheers alive.
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Even with the sound off, or other announcers coming through my television, his cadences mark the beats in between pitches.
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As announcers, as broadcasters, as journalists, we address these issues because that also pushes everyone toward making the sport better.
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He learned his cadence by studying hockey announcers, the closest analogue of the four major sports in terms of speed.
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A. I grew up listening to radio in Argentina, and most of the announcers call the "gol" the same way.
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CSA's clients serve as on-air hosts, color commentators, and arena announcers for esports and gaming events around the country.
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And just in case snooker still confuses you, these announcers keep explaining its rules, with priceless condescension, to unenlightened listeners.
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Personalities and desires are projected wildly onto the furry celebrities by owners, announcers and spectators with pure and unbridled enthusiasm.
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Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything.
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This separated him from announcers who babbled endless skeins of words, believing that they, not the cars, were the attraction.
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In February 1980, Al Michaels had not yet established himself as one of the best sports announcers of all time.
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The differences were pronounced: If announcers were talking about black players, they tended to focus more on their physical abilities.
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When Ben Carson was called to the stage, he hesitated and lingered in the hallway, seemingly struggling to hear the announcers.
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It's unclear whether or not this was intentional, but in times like this, we wish life was narrated by sports announcers.
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Announcers in suits and headsets sat behind a polished black desk on a set arranged in a familiar sports-broadcast manner.
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FDR memorized everything he said on the broadcasts and spurned the hyped-up style of most radio announcers in that era.
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The official team's account tweeted a highlight video of Burgundy with the announcers, including how he got the second period started.
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This year alone I've heard announcers use the phrase to describe Sam Dekker and Pat Connaughton, a pair of phenomenal athletes.
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The pair kick off the video as a pair of Dominican golf announcers, sporting formidable mustaches and bantering in fake Spanish.
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Like, say, the Chicago White Sox, whose announcers Hawk Harrelson and Steve Stone were caught last season talking midgame about hemorrhoids.
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In a featured game, mixers will put a mic on every team member and mix that in with the game's announcers.
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But the way this new reality was enforced was heavily resisted at WBGO, where announcers are considered community elders and storytellers.
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All told, he calls about 75 races a year, making him one of the busier auto-racing announcers in the area.
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The announcers for the game, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, will also steer clear of any references to events outside football.
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Ted DiBiase -- WWE universe has lost one of its greatest announcers and truly one of the nicest guys you'd ever know.
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We can also use EVE as a very rich scoreboard, displaying information that you're not getting visually or through the broadcast announcers.
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You can see him on TV broadcasts, his wide-brimmed hat floating next to the announcers' table or by the Warriors' bench.
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During a break between games—or maybe as I waited for the lag to settle—I heard the announcers on TV screaming.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm in charge of the ballots, took responsibility for the mistake, explaining that the announcers got the wrong envelope.
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Still, the announcers for the show emphasized that everyone won — even those who scored zero points got to donate $20,000 to charity.
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Such passion, such yelling, it's as if the announcers drank tea and honey this morning to ready their throats for this moment.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," Moore wrote.
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The parade requires more of the announcers, and the "Today" crew, unusually subdued during the ceremony, nimbly recited demographic and historical facts.
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Live video of every player was broadcast on huge monitors in the center of the arena, while broadcast announcers followed the action.
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It was even exhausting to watch the announcers perform behind a curtain, their voices echoing to the crowd on the other side.
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In 224, it was still common to hear announcers laughingly enthusing over a player "getting his bell rung" from a big hit.
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It harks back to NBC's attempt, in 1980, to broadcast an N.F.L. game without announcers, a decision that was considered a flop.
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Detractors called him Weasel and were quick to chant that name when he turned up at ringside or in the announcers' booth.
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"Nothing like a rocket and a countdown clock to get your heart going," Blue Origin's announcers said on the company's livestream, before liftoff.
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The duo, channeling real life announcers Jim Nantz and Phil Simms, played two aspiring Atlanta sportscasters Lee and Morris, characters of their creation.
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The game's announcers said the man would be detained by police, but his status after being caught was not immediately clear on Friday.
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What's not to like about 18 holes of dudes occasionally whacking lil' balls on stunning pastoral landscapes while announcers mumble in hushed tones?
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On the opening weekend of last season, at least two NFL announcers identified Surfaces as iPads during game broadcasts before millions of people.
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Even with the progress women have made in an occupation like this, why is it that we still don't see them as announcers?
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Though WWE CEO Vince McMahon is notorious for yelling at announcers through the headsets when producing them, Briley sounds significantly more laid-back.
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Bartenders, announcers, ranch hands, and volunteers were all part of a larger gay community that was local to each region of the circuit.
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Here are some of the top terms you'll hear from the announcers: There's the breed, and then there are the varieties within it.
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Watch on South Korean television, and the announcers are often shouting in a way that does not seem good for their vocal cords.
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Snoop is one of the announcers on that show -- and was so impressed with Sean, he smoked the dude out after the fight.
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HONG KONG — As fighting raged across the battlefield in a video game called Arena of Valor, the announcers could barely contain their enthusiasm.
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On one side of each occupied booth are two producers; on the other are two announcers calling an event "live" while watching monitors.
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" A Fox spokesman said there could be betting references on-air "if it makes sense and our announcers can organically work it in.
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NBC management quickly agreed, but with a twist: Instead of cars, the announcers would battle the traffic, and the clock, on motorcycle taxis.
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The initial shots appeared to go off near the venue's racetrack, where TVG announcers covering a race screamed out "gunfire" live on air.
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Except the CBC announcers got their lanes mixed up and thought it was Ryan Lochte who was blowing everyone else out of the water.
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Pick: Stay away (Should have bet Over at -250) How many times will "dab" or "dabbing" be said by the announcers during the Broadcast?
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Most announcers at awards shows aren't seen at all, but Fowler has been spinning tunes on stage as he announces the presenters and winners.
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Fans and announcers were stunned late Saturday when Aqua and Nyhrox, two underdogs, beat out 503 other teams, many from larger, more funded organizations.
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CBS was fortunate to have two top choices, even having let two promising young announcers, Bob Costas and Al Michaels, slip to the competition.
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"And there's the Copenhagen smile," said one of the announcers, referring to the lopsided cheeks of someone working on a plug of chewing tobacco.
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"These martyrs of our times were faithful announcers of the Gospel, humble builders of peace and heroic witnesses to Christian charity," the pope said.
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INSIDE PITCH The Mets named two new Citi Field public address announcers for the rest of the 2018 season: MARYSOL CASTRO and COLIN COSELL.
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The majority of them are Spanish-speaking, with names that can be tricky for English-speaking broadcasters and public-address announcers to pronounce accurately.
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Mr. Moskowitz and others have written that noisy fans and announcers do not have much impact in terms of distracting or demoralizing visiting players.
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The award had been given to only two Latino announcers before then: Mr. Canel and Jaime Jarrín, the longtime Spanish voice of the Dodgers.
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So, too, was the age-old attraction of violent combat between men, the bloodlust we pretty up with smiling ring girls and tuxedoed announcers.
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I've written nearly three dozen obits, all of sports personalities, including the announcers Mel Allen, Ernie Harwell, Jim McKay, Phil Rizzuto and Harry Caray.
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Early on, the broadcast sounded muddled as the announcers, Lisa Byington and LaChina Robinson, struggled to be heard over the screams of the coaches.
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However, announcers will not be discussing betting lines, over-unders or other wagering during the National Football League's championship game in Atlanta on Feb.
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Fans and the Jazz announcers mistakenly labeled the planted left foot as Harden's first step even though it came before he gathered the ball.
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Announcers tell us how hard baseballs are hit and how far they travel, or how many miles a particularly active soccer player has run.
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It gives space for wry commentary on the primal behavior of football fans and ample opportunity to poke fun at announcers' sublimely dumb jokes.
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It's worst on claims that a pass "might" have been intercepted, which announcers may say of throws a defender barely tips with an outstretched hand.
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Those who get bored of the straightforward commentary of Super Bowl announcers Jim Nantz and Phil Simms will have another more eccentric option this Sunday.
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A pair of announcers in short-sleeved shirts said the usual sports-announcer things, and a young blond woman did on-field interviews between heats.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer vendors, no women anything," he wrote in March 2002.
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But he told ESPN's announcers that baseball still had much work to do, in hiring more black and Latino managers and finding more minority owners.
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Early in the second quarter, UTSA wideout Josh Stewart came up with a play so beautifully impossible, that the announcers didn't even believe it happened.
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But when the stars pack up their cleats and the announcers leave Moscow behind, M. will push on, trying to fight for a better country.
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After Jon Gruden left to return to coaching, ESPN executives opted for a radical makeover, selecting Joe Tessitore and Jason Witten as the lead announcers.
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In other words, don't expect on-screen betting lines or announcers regularly discussing whether a late-game field goal helped a team cover the spread.
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Murray seemed to lose his cool with announcers speculating that he then purposely lost the replayed point just to make a point with the umpire.
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Even the announcers—old-timers Dick Vitale and Brent Musburger; two longtime sports broadcasters who have seen some shit—couldn't think of a better game.
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The announcers for the Motor Racing Network, the main radio and at-track broadcast partner for NASCAR, made the same mistake during the race's second stage.
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Celebrity competitors don't get a lot of prep for these appearances — only "a little training," according to the announcers — but that's not how it looks here.
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"Bobby Heenan… The Greatest Manager, One Of The Greatest Announcers, And One Of The Best In-Ring Performers In The History Of The Business," Flair tweeted.
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Congrats to the U.S. on their first gold medal in cross-country skiing, and congrats to the announcers for really giving it their all out there.
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And so, in the absence of championship excitement, Scully has done what all great baseball announcers must learn to do — tell folksy stories to kill time.
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Announcers hyped a concocted rivalry between the shows with surprisingly little verve; John Layfield, in particular, seemed to be going through the motions whenever Raw vs.
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They are quite terrible, so this was the perfect time for announcers to tear the team to shreds or, at the very least, offer some criticism.
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The diverse crop of announcers includes Mahershala Ali, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gina Rodriguez, but only one presenter will make history at the prestigious ceremony: Daniela Vega.
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This year's celebrity guests included Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, "Black-ish" star Anthony Anderson and Olympic skaters-turned-announcers Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski.
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In the NBA season opener last year between the Warriors and the Pelicans, the game streamed in VR included only ambient noise, no graphics or announcers.
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The Kremlin has flatly denied any involvement in the attack, even as state television announcers have pointedly referred to the poisoning as a warning to traitors.
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The play was shown several times on the Fox telecast, and the announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman marveled at Jones's skill, concentration and body control.
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His focus was so fine-tuned that he didn't hear the running commentary of all the amateur analysts and play-by-play announcers in the gallery.
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It's also compatible with Google Assistant and Alexa, so you can yell at it to turn up the volume when you want to hear the announcers.
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Why it matters: In a traditional TV world, almost all sports coverage was delivered through one live, linear feed, with one set of announcers and analysts.
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In sports broadcasting, Dr. Reiffel invented the Telestrator, which allows announcers to draw lines and circles on a television screen to show how a play developed.
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During the competition, announcers noted that Raisman's been on the hunt for the best waterproof mascara for tear-filled moments like she experienced at Sunday's Olympic Trials.
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One criticism that comes up during the NCAA Tournament—it's often lobbed at Charles Barkley—is that NBA announcers don't know college players when they discuss games.
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The youngster has earned a fiery reputation as a baseball coach already, with announcers noting that Drake holds the Northwoods league record for ejections, USA Today reported.
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Caldiero, 33, hits a moment the announcers dub "make or break" at the end of the clip as he reaches the most challenging part of the course.
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E-sports is gradually assembling all the trappings of mainstream sports: corporate sponsorships, professional managers, salaried players and even announcers who wear suits and make bad jokes.
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Smith's three lollipops — swiped from the men's locker room and laid out in front of him in the broadcast booth — generated intermittent commentary from his co-announcers.
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But in this case, announcers are not always certain what to do, some striving to be sensitive but others not wanting to sound like they are affecting.
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Its announcers plan to have a solar physicist nearby to explain the plasma activity the crowd may potentially see, like sunspots, solar prominences and coronal mass ejections.
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When announcers exclaim that a rider pedals "like the Hulk" or describe Alaphilippe's performance as "absolutely extraordinary," it seems wise to temper the urge to clap unreservedly.
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But CMA announcers never explicitly said anything about what point the performance was making — or urged equity for women artists — which feels like a huge missed opportunity.
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Announcers from NY1 chose not to wear costumes out of respect for those killed and injured in the attack, they said during a lifestream of the event.
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In the opening shot of the studio, before a single team was named, banners of various teams could be seen lining the set above the announcers' desk.
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There, she would accompany him and try to lift his spirits by reading the sports pages in the exaggerated manner of the era's sports announcers, according to Time.
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A game between the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers came to a brief halt on Sunday when what announcers initially thought was a balloon drifted onto the field.
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On the largest, Channel One, announcers relished America's humiliating obsession with claims that Russia had interfered in its elections and that Mr Trump employed prostitutes while visiting Moscow.
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" Perhaps coincidentally, the last weapons rolled out at Sunday's parade were China's own nuclear warhead-capable ICBMs, which state TV announcers proudly called "symbols of a major power.
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Yes — sports announcers and sports publications chose to talk about Bad Gal RiRi over LeBron after a game-changing dunk, which is something I would totally do, too.
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While some announcers have called them "iPad-like tools" and quarterbacks have thrown them around, the brightly colored tablets are now making their way into Madden NFL 17.
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He fell into conversations with the announcers as they packed up, and the coaches, and one of the stadium managers, who said 800 people had paid for parking.
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It took time for the broadcast to evolve from the bare bones of simply stating what happened, but eventually announcers would describe the grandstand and the outfield grass.
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In most cases, announcers tasked with working major sporting events like NFL or MLB games are mandated by networks to keep their opinions to themselves until the game.
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N.F.L. television contracts have for decades prohibited announcers from talking about gambling, said Fred Gaudelli, the longtime producer of NBC's football telecasts, on a conference call last week.
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In recent years, Eurovision has employed a complex voting system in which announcers from each participating country reveal the points awarded by their country, on a 12-point scale.
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I think the best play-by-play announcers, and I would put Al Michaels right there at the very top, aren't telling you sixteen different things on a play.
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"Unfortunately it appears as though we lost the vehicle," one of the SpaceX announcers said during the company's webcast, adding that they did get good data from the failure.
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Arrieta's next pitch was a fastball that nicked the top corner of the CSN PitchTrax and was once again ignored by the umpire, drawing more protest from the announcers.
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Vision 2030 was mentioned by name, and its buzzwords were so present and cloying that it felt as obvious as when the announcers plug KFC or Starburst between matches.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," he wrote in the 2002 piece for National Review.
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Even the announcers, who usually mess up even the simplest storylines, clicked into place, telling the home audience that it wasn't just consumerism Bryan was going after, but capitalism.
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Then there are the endless video reviews and the untenable rule that determines when a catch is or isn't a catch, which even the announcers seem unable to parse.
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Young Dick also got his first glimpse of a major league ballpark — Briggs Stadium in Detroit — and listened to storied radio announcers like Red Barber call the World Series.
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So he would tune his radio to listen to famous announcers like Barney Hall and Ken Squier call the action of his father's races on the Motor Racing Network.
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As Green Bay sent out the kicker, the announcers Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth did not so much as mention that a two-yard gain would win a playoff game.
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If you've watched him play a single game, and if the announcers calling that game were doing even the most rudimentary version of their jobs, then you know his reputation.
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The new crop of celebrity announcers includes Gal Gadot, Mark Hamill, Armie Hammer, Oscar Isaac, Lin- Manuel Miranda, Gina Rodriguez, Eva Marie Saint, Wes Studi, Kelly Marie Tran and Zendaya.
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The lone standout from Amazon's first game was the alternative broadcasts—most notably the British announcers meant for foreign fans who might not have been as knowledgeable about American football.
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When Shaun White won his third Olympic gold medal at the Pyeongchang Games on February 22016 after completing a gravity-defying performance on the halfpipe, the NBC announcers were ready.
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But fans weren't the only ones lighting up the NJ Governor -- Christie also got zinged by the Fox Sports TV announcers for his infamous day of fun in the sun.
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But the distance between the people and the army is still evident in spite of efforts by military announcers like Mosquera, who have tried to foster relationships with the locals.
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Third quarters became little trials of focus, announcers begging the team to "play the game, not the score" and cameras finding Geno Auriemma getting extra fist-pumpy on the sideline.
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That means he's listening to all of those feeds on speakers as he creates a mix for both the TV broadcast's play-by-play announcers and the audience at home.
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Its on-air announcers, many of whom stayed with the channel for years, would become familiar fixtures, even minor New York celebrities, by occasionally appearing as themselves in Hollywood blockbusters.
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In addition to all the usual suspects (photographers, fine artists, dancers, musicians), the study also accounts for less expected métiers, like PA system announcers, ad copy writers, floral designers, and ventriloquists.
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So, then, why is everyone, from the refs on the court, the players on the floor, the announcers, and even elements of the crowd, acting like that shot didn't go down?
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The announcers continued to make it awkward, stalling constantly as they invited different people to come up and help make announcements, or ushering them away because they didn't need them anymore.
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The software giant was forced to "coach" NFL announcers to not call its Surface tablets an iPad, and the company had to defend its tablets after the Patriots stopped using them.
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The English-speaking announcers at Dominion mentioned that Okada already has spent the third most number of days as champion in New Japan's history— and he's not even 30 years old.
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Suddenly, a fringe movement -- so divisive only days before -- was must-see TV. Announcers hyped the National Anthem preceding each game, the cameras lingering on each face as the music swelled.
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Lucho would even pretend to be in the booth with the announcers, his tape recorder pressed up against the television speaker, pulling it away to splice in his commentary with theirs.
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The on-air talent he once worked with came equipped with a journalism background, but the self-training of MLG announcers ensures a certain passion and knowledge unique to each caster.
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But once, my son and I were watching the Olympic announcers clearly enjoying themselves, and he told me that when I'm having fun on the air, the viewer is having fun.
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He was quickly hired to call baseball and was named Cuba's commentator of the year — a surprise given his inexperience compared with announcers like Manolo de la Reguera and Cuco Conde.
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"The players asked Target Center staff to have those fans who have been sitting in the 2nd level move down into the lower level for this 4th quarter," the announcers said.
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It was peak embarrassment at Gillette Stadium where even the TV announcers calling the game clowned Pats fans for having the audacity to BOO while the team was down at halftime.
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"NFL fans will hear history made this season — bringing two female announcers together to call an entire NFL game has never been done before," said Greg Hart, Prime Video vice president.
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There have been two cases of RT announcers quitting because of what they said was pressure to toe a Kremlin line, especially on Ukraine, but not in London, Mr. Rattansi said.
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So you will forgive the announcers if, when they introduce her performance at the 2017 Grammy Awards on February 12, they forget to mention that she was also briefly a tech executive.
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The announcers might mention the Patriots' 2015 "deflategate" scandal, an edgy commercial or the halftime show could spark a debate, or rival fans in your living room could get a little heated.
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Every time any of the on-air announcers in the 2019 Men's Professional Basketball Championship Series (NBA Playoffs, for the laypeople), says the word "free," Chipotle will tweet out a unique code.
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During the club's 109-100 loss to the Dallas Ballers on Thursday, Nicolas Colon served as head coach while the Junior Basketball Association's announcers said Denard was no longer the team's coach.
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She seems like a really fun person to get drunk with, which is probably why even the veteran sports announcers for the game can't control themselves when she walks into a stadium.
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NBC featured the American athletes it is counting on for story lines, like the swimmer Michael Phelps and the sprinter Allyson Felix; and an intrusive, embarrassing promo touted NBC's most prominent announcers.
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One of its large studios is filled with portable announcing and production booths where announcers call many of the sports NBC is showing, from archery and badminton to rugby and weight lifting.
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In addition to the unique viewing angles afforded by the VR environment, the live broadcasts also have their own announcers who cater to the immersive experience being viewed by the VR audience.
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But its high-minded intentions have produced an unwelcome result: heaps of criticism from some of its star players, past and present; confusion among fans; and normally friendly television announcers expressing exasperation.
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The announcers, Dana Bash, CNN's chief political correspondent, and Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, provided a stream of off-beat chatter and supplied the audience with morsels from the players' bios.
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"Announcers are part of the industrial complex of college football, and I think we've turned a blind eye toward the violence — we have to protect these kids," Cunningham said at the time.
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Retirement for the performer, known in civilian life as Mark William Calaway, was never explicitly stated by the announcers on the broadcast or posted to the throbbing oversized screens in the stadium.
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A television viewer can hazard a guess as to the timing of nature breaks as the NBC announcers cut away from the race and begin to rhapsodize about a particularly handsome château.
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Unlike the French league, the N.B.A. had awe-inspiring athletes, crowded arenas and flashy halftime shows — and Eddy's exuberant style of sportscasting, which contrasted with the staid French announcers of the time.
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"I love the United States and recognize how much we owe to the rodeo scene up there, but the folks in Brazil expect a little more from their rodeo announcers," he explained.
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Yet there were the Devils' TV announcers earnestly talking about playoff chances, the distance New Jersey needs to cover to catch the Red Wings and the importance of an upcoming road trip.
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And every time it happens, it makes the highlights and gets shown during the game, at which point we have to listen to the announcers fake laugh their way through the whole thing.
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Traditional TV does a better job of offering a holistic view of a game through an understood language: Camera cuts, on-screen graphics, and announcers directing your attention and providing in-game insight.
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"If there was a Mount Rushmore of LA Sports Announcers, Dick Enberg is on it with Chick Hearn, Vin Scully and Bob Miller," John Ireland, radio voice for the Los Angeles Lakers, tweeted.
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Today NBA Digital and its partner NextVR announced that they'll broadcast at least one game every week during the season in VR, complete with dedicated announcers, multiple camera angles, and VR-optimized graphics.
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If the Cardinals do make it into October and get in some late-night nailbiter, you can bet that the national TV announcers will be talking about their reputation for on-call magic.
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Gathered in a Washington, D.C., ballroom last Thursday for their annual "tech prom, " hundreds of tech industry lobbyists and policy makers applauded politely as announcers read out the names of the event's sponsors.
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The league is lifting some of those restrictions this year, provided you already subscribe to a traditional cable or satellite TV package — and don't mind announcers who are rooting against your home team.
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For a few minutes, Mr. Parker stepped into a recording booth to perform the voices of two football announcers introducing the new national anthem, while Mr. Stone directed him to be more excitable.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer vendors, no women anything," he wrote in March 2002, a stance he defended in several other columns.
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Florida seemed poised to knock out Wisconsin while up 12 points with five minutes left in the game—even the announcers were talking about which Badgers would end their college careers that night.
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Soto was in the station's studio in Cusco with his fellow announcers Saturnino Pulla and Percy Chile on Saturday when Peru debuted at the 2018 tournament with a 1-0 loss to Denmark.
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Yet many players cut announcers and broadcasters a lot of slack, even if they prefer a correct pronunciation and — with accent marks on their jerseys — have a clear preference for correct spelling, too.
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The sketch featuring stock footage of skiers wiping out on the slopes, with overdubbed gunfire, as the TV announcers (Chevy Chase and Jane Curtin) commented on a strange wave of "accidental" skier shootings.
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Seated courtside at a Los Angeles Lakers game in 2010, Mr. Elkann stunned television announcers when he appeared to interfere with the Toronto Raptors' Jose Calderon, who was reaching for a loose ball.
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Katie Couric and Mike Tirico proved nimble announcers, with less of the weird exoticism that sometimes overtook the ceremonies hosted by Matt Lauer (fired from NBC in a sexual harassment scandal) and Meredith Vieira.
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The announcers geeked out over the costumes in the crowd, indulging in "Star Wars" trivia and puns as runners left in waves, quickly heading into Disney Adventure Park and then to fabled Disneyland itself.
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"He was saying baseball is too long," he told ESPN's announcers, but he thoughtfully noted (with Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred sitting behind him) that actions have been taken to speed up games.
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So as soon as there was a rain delay, all the announcers were mic'd up, they were on, everybody was on camera, and they went around about everything from drug use to points shaving.
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Also, the NHL's public relations department and NBC announcers Kenny Albert, Pierre McGuire, and Ed Olczyk seemed to be under orders to not use the phrase "licking" when using or discussing the formal warning.
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Fox, too, scored record viewership, and the announcers for the Mexico-Germany game included Mariano Trujillo, a former Mexican national team member who easily switched to English to provide insights for his Anglo viewers.
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It's hard to know for sure, but there's a good chance that if the announcers were given a card with a better text layout, they wouldn't have called up the wrong winner on accident.
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If you put in the right amount to work to create pictures, banners, titles, title histories, wrestlers, announcers, historical events, and so much more, the greater the illusion will be when you start the game.
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As SB Nation reports, a Sarasota Open tennis match went off the rails Tuesday when the sounds of a couple having very loud sex nearby became impossible for the players, audience, and announcers to ignore.
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The main event was delayed as both men stood staring at each other across the ring as fights broke out in the audience and ushers and announcers desperately appealed for fans to take their seats.
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As the (apocryphal) story goes, the Mulkeys didn't know they were going to win—only the referee and their opponents did—and so the shock on their faces, and those of the announcers, was real.
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"I never paid attention to the public-address announcers, but somebody said when they were reading off the lineup card, it was 'Al Oliver, wearing nothing, and Cliff Johnson, wearing double-nothing,'" Oliver said, laughing.
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She is shown attending government sponsored speed-dating events with chirpy announcers, heart-shaped decorations, and a crowd of young people practicing their prepared dating versions of elevator pitches in the hopes of finding The One.
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"The japanese pairs figure skating team is skating to a song from yuri on ice so the #olympics announcers briefly had to talk about anime, what a time to be alive," wrote Amy Brown on Twitter.
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In the Warriors' stream, there was just one camera view, no replays or announcers, and you had to check the score the same way fans in the stands did: By looking at an in-stadium scoreboard.
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There's a constant hum of activity—packing and unpacking, repairing last minute scuffs and rubs with makeup brushes, announcers blaring out nearly incomprehensible jargon—and at the same time nothing in particular seems to be happening.
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One of the Twitch announcers gasped as the other breezily observes the prominence of "such bulky Tapu Kokos" in the current metagame, the colloquialism for the trends in tactics that dominate play at any given point.
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When Villanova won the N.C.A.A. men's basketball championship in April on a last-second shot, the announcers and referees, amid the revelry on the court, had to double-check whether the shot was released in time.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," Moore wrote in National Review column in March 2002 that was unearthed Monday by CNN's KFile.
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Blue Origin detailed the mechanics of its in-flight escape system in this animation: Following Wednesday's flight, the New Shepard booster and capsule will both be retired, announcers said during a live webcast of the launch.
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Today, smart boards and smart pieces are equipped with digital technology that livestreams the pieces' location on the board at every moment, and tournament announcers use computer algorithms to analyze the moves as they are made.
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Fans have criticized the way sports announcers framed interviews with the players — Leslie Jones was not having it when a caption noted Megan Rapinoe as the oldest player to score a goal in a World Cup final.
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According to the organization's website, members include, "Actors, announcers, broadcasters journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals.." That is a lot of people.
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In addition, Podhoretz wisely punctuates the action with calls from Lakers and Celtics play-by-play announcers Chick Hearn and Johnny Most, two wildly distinctive voices whose homer-ism practically defined the emotion that surrounded these contests.
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Every time announcers Jim Nantz and Phil Simms spend 10 seconds on a critically injured player, then a full minute on the roaring capacity crowd, it's an ad for the fun and safe family sport of football.
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So maybe the bass isn't turned up high enough for me to hear it, but the announcers at least picked up on a solid, long, deep vowel sound that certainly wasn't a welcome message for Gisele's husband.
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Unlike the sycophantic announcers on state-controlled television, Mr. Navalny has appealed to a younger generation with his irreverent humor and caustic denunciations of graft, insider deals and what he calls Russia's rigged political and economic system.
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With virtually no action to speak of, announcers Jim Nantz and Tony Romo went balistic after Los Angeles Rams punter Johnny Hekker booteda 65-yard punt that wound up registering as the longest in Super Bowl history.
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The Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James took to Instagram on Thursday, one day after he was criticized by Utah Jazz announcers for celebrating teammate Kyle Kuzma from the side of the court while not wearing his shoes.
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NBC's telecasts will feature "somewhat isolated" sports betting references, Fox will mention it on-air only "if our announcers can organically work it in," and ESPN execs said there were "no plans to discuss gambling," per NYT.
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The customary hush of the announcers contrasted sharply with the roar of the crowds, and the screaming sports headlines, alongside the millions bestowed upon the young athlete by various corporate entities, revealed that something quite important had happened.
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I love the righteous indignation that marks my Sunday mornings, the way I howl with disgust as announcers and commentators talk about how "talented and aggressive" he is every time another driver rescues him from his bad decisions.
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Athletes from Kenya, Croatia and Canada also claimed Olympic gold in a largely empty stadium, where announcers urged rowdy Brazilian fans to restrain themselves after provoking a French pole vaulter with a chorus of boos the night before.
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And then last night, Cleveland Indians GM Mike Chernoff's son Brody went on air and gave a couple of radio announcers a big scoop about his dad's intentions to give shortstop Francisco Lindor a fatty, re-upped contract.
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Shuhan Ma, a senior at Indiana and one of the Mandarin announcers, says that the program has helped to pull Chinese students away from their often closed-off social groups and experience other aspects of the campus life.
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Keeping Score This is definitely not the way that announcers in New Orleans — or, for that matter, commentators on the TNT network — will introduce the four-player lineup for the N.B.A.'s slam dunk contest on Saturday night.
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On YouTube, you can find video montages of the play's aftermath: Messi and his teammates celebrating and cracking up, the goalie López mugging like an exasperated vaudeville straight man, play-by-play announcers dissolving in peals of laughter.
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The NextVR broadcast has its own announcers, who share directional commands you don't typically hear on ESPN: look to your right to see a player set a screen, to your left to see a fight for a loose ball.
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After initially announcing a year-long ban of Wai Chung and the tournament announcers who were interviewing him live in early October, Blizzard has since shortened the ban to six months in response to the fan and public outcry.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," Moore wrote in a National Review Online column in March 2002 that was unearthed last week by CNN's KFile.
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As the announcers have reminded us several times during this tournament, some Croatian fans have not embraced the current team and, in particular, its star, Luka Modric, in quite the same way as they took to Suker and Boban.
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Instead of streaming a full game with all the players, graphics, and announcers, starting in February Twitter will stream the second half of some NBA games — yes, only the second half — but the camera will focus on a single player.
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Because he is tall and strong and tends to experiment and adjust, and because he has been a good baseball player but not yet a great one, announcers, columnists, and fans use the words we've always used in these scenarios.
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On his dresser was a Magnavox TV, twenty-five-inch, with a built-in VCR, presumably left on all day, tuned to ESPN, where the announcers were oohing and aahing over, who else, Michael Jordan, who was doing, what else, winning.
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Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is Still Out Here One of the harshest moments heard in any random League Pass broadcast occurs whenever opposing announcers react to Michael Kidd-Gilchrist's jump shot, as if he hasn't been in the league for six years.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," he wrote in a 2002 column for the conservative National Review, recently unearthed by CNN's Andrew Kaczynski and Paul LeBlanc.
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Though the rudimentary broadcast likely lacked the kind of descriptive detail that announcers are now famous for, listeners could use their imaginations to situate double plays and home run balls in the requisite infield dirt and the familiar outfield bleachers.
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When I say attention, the primary purpose of sticking with "Let's get ready to rumble" was when the fighters would come to the ring, it was exciting, and then ring announcers were introducing all their buddies on the boxing commission.
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Thanks to "K," when the Mets game was on the other night I knew Edwin Díaz had given up a home run on a hanging slider even before I heard it from Keith Hernandez, now one of the Mets announcers.
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It explains how comments can be made that dismiss Mendoza for "never having played," yet in the same breath recognize that Vin Scully and countless other men who never played pro baseball are regarded as among the greatest announcers ever.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Super Bowl may be the biggest sports wagering event in the United States each year, but announcers will not be talking about betting during the broadcast of the big game next month, CBS said on Thursday.
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At one point during the online streaming of the game last month, two white announcers for a Forest City radio station, KIOW, began riffing on the Hispanic names of some players from the mildly more diverse community of Eagle Grove.
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Though Desi lost his battle, he won the hearts of everyone in the room, prompting one of the ball's announcers, Leggoh LaBeija, to welcome him back onto the stage at the end of the night to walk with his biological father, Andrew.
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Then, just as they're getting to the heart of their story, slowly un-focus your eyes, drift your gaze toward the TV and begin listening intently to whatever football intricacy the CBS announcers are explaining while nodding your head ever so slightly.
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The toe loop (a toe jump) What figure skating judges are looking for when they assess jumps, and what announcers are calling live, is which edge skaters are taking off from, whether they're using the toe pick, and which leg they're landing on.
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Whenever they cut to Archie Manning during any of Eli's or Peyton's NFL games he would be chill, but that didn't matter because the announcers would be like THERE HE IS, ALL-TIME GREAT ARCHIE MANNING, NOW CONTENT TO BE A PROUD PAPA.
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There were not many people in the seats yet — Rio is not an early riser — but there was the Portuguese patter of the announcers, the gut-thumping beat of music, and the slow, silent slinking of a gunmetal military ship just offshore.
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The spot of the night, and maybe of this year's post-WrestleMania run of pay-per-views, was Roman Reigns spearing Balor and Joe through a barricade, while Rollins delivered a splash through an announcers table to Wyatt a few seconds later.
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I suspect that these baseball announcers are so used to tracking things event-by-event that their new introduction to the very concept of time has blown their minds and created a religious fervor for the very concept of inevitable forward progress.
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In the moments after Jordan brought his righteous thunder down on Bogut's noggin, the announcers covering the game rushed to praise Paul's pass, arguing that the All-NBA point guard deserves most of the credit for Jordan's league-leading field goal percentage.
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I know that Peyton Manning is currently a man-shaped box marked "FRAGILE, DO NOT DROP," that America's ruddy racists will be watching Cam Newton and waiting in the hope that he fails, that announcers Jim Nantz and Phil Simms will disappoint.
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The British broadcaster Channel 4 had planned to introduce daily live coverage the next season, and Mr. Liggett, a cycling journalist who had been commenting for brief packages of prerecorded highlights since 1978, said he thought he needed help in the announcers' booth.
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He was a WMCA Good Guy and a WABC All-American — the clubby team names adopted by the stations to brand their announcers — and a morning drive-time host for WCBS, 101.1 FM, until he retired from full-time broadcasting in 2003.
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The New Day, who had spent the better part of a month acting as heelish ringleaders of the Smackdown "invasions" of Raw, were facing the Shield, who were reuniting in what announcers assured us was one of the mostly hotly anticipated reunions of all time.
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The announcers talked about Kluber's "painting," in the sense of sliding his pitches right along the strike zone's edge, but what his performance really brought to mind was the brushwork of an actual artist, working in layers, applying accents, backgrounds building up to ornaments.
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" Spike SVP, Sports and Specials Jon Slusser added: "The addition of highly-regarded announcers Mauro and Mike to our fantastic lineup of broadcasters, and our first-rate production led by Scott Fishman, further demonstrates our commitment MMA fans and expanding the global Bellator brand.
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By contrast, the broadcast of an NFL game can use 150 to 200 channels for announcers, production staff, stadium personnel, the halftime show, and the referees' mics, says Henry Cohen, senior RF systems design engineer for CP Communications, which provides communication services for broadcasts.
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Weeks of hype videos and buzz for Asuka coincided with Emma appearing on television to job to others and get run down by the announcers culminated in jokey Emma, bad Emma, jobber Emma getting at least as much from the feared Asuka as vice versa.
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He's commentated games alongside the Toronto Raptors announcers, released a whole record that's a love letter to the city, received the damn key to the city, and now he surprised a recent Raptors game by playing a quick set outside of the Air Canada Centre.
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The broadcast does a good job keeping you informed about what drivers are struggling to strike this balance, thanks to a great pair of announcers, the occasional eavesdropping on team radio communications, and the fact that you can always see how much battery each driver has left.
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The inaugural event is hosted by Kitten Bowl cat-cuddler Beth Stern along with legendary announcers Mary Carillo, of NBC Sports fame, and David Frei , of (gasp!) Westminster Dog Show fame, and features the nation's most athletic and adoptable kittens competing in a series of sporting events.
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You could just see a down-the-middle fastball triggering the swing that produced 32 regular-season homers and Rizzo rounding the bases; you could hear the announcers talking about how inevitable it was that these Chicago bats, so potent over the year, would wake up.
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Players and coaches who would normally trade fist bumps with adoring, young fans and bask in the deafening chants of their supporters in the stands, were keeping their hands in their pockets, heads down, as they walked out to nothing but the sound of the announcers.
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Players and coaches who would normally trade fist bumps with adoring, young fans and bask in the deafening chants of their supporters in the stands, were keeping their hands in their pockets, heads down, as they walked out to nothing but the sound of the announcers.
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Here's how it went down: While things surely get exciting near the end—the Phoenix announcers trying for higher decibel levels with each successive bucket—the really good stuff is in the middle, when Booker is just building up a good but not yet historic game.
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Look no further than the fact that NBC's team of announcers for the opening ceremony consisted of Today show trio Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, and Hoda Kotb — without, say, one of the network's foreign affairs correspondents or even sportscaster Bob Costas to offer some sort of balance.
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No. 5 REBOUND 25: As Charlotte's announcers tell everyone at home that the team has crossed the points threshold and everyone in the greater Charlotte area will be getting free Papa John's, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson gets distracted by the promise of sweet, bready 'za and misses over Frank Kaminsky.
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For a president who now jokes about behaving more presidentially, the event featured the brand of pageantry kitsch that Mr. Trump once used on television and his own live entertainment projects: tuxedo-clad announcers, bikini-clad women who circled the octagon and elaborate entrance routines by the fighters.
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He spins off little Ricky Rubio as though Rubio were a tackling dummy, and you laugh—the Bucks announcers draw out the mischief, calling the futile defensive assignment "verrrry interesting ... " Giannis dunks from a step inside the free throw line, going Statue-of-Liberty, and leaves you holding your breath.
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The two met while working as announcers at a Boston radio station in 1946 and had an easygoing rapport that gave life to routines about Komodo dragons (featuring Elliott's expert from Upper Montclair, New Jersey -- their people were always from unprepossessing American towns) and paperclip companies (with Goulding's company president).
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Among the new things introduced in the area by the military assault against the guerrillas as part of President Álvaro Uribe's "Plan Patriota" ("Patriot Plan") was, as in many other towns throughout the country, the antenna, the transmitter, and a group of soldiers turned announcers for the Colombia Estéreo radio station.
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I mean, be reasonable: How often, as Derek Jeter's retirement approached in 2014, were we made to endure the squealing ecstasies of television announcers too bedazzled by the fastidious delicacy of his dainty coupé-chassé en tournant on grounders to his right to notice his minuscule range or flimsy arm?
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And the Clippers noted that he is one of few announcers who have called games in the N.F.L., M.L.B., N.H.L. and N.B.A. The team will end its regular season against the Utah Jazz, and officials said they will honor the broadcaster by hosting "Ralph Lawler Night" that evening at Staples Center.
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"I saw exactly what they were selling — a little boy holding a sign that read, 'I'm here to see the cheerleaders,' close-ups of cheerleaders acting like strippers, the vulgar comments and sexual innuendo out of the mouths of the announcers," Simmons told the New York Post at the time.
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There are the local volunteers, filling every role imaginable, whether selling acrid coffee and home-baked cakes to the fans, acting as field-side announcers, recording official statistics or hanging Greenland flags and advertising banners from the fencing erected to keep sled dogs and snowmobiles off the field during winter.
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Bobby Heenan... The Greatest Manager, One Of The Greatest Announcers, And One Of The Best In-Ring Performers In The History Of The Business Bobby came up as a pro wrestler and manager through the '60s and '70s in the World Wrestling Association, American Wrestling Association and later the World Wrestling Federation.
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It's been a rough year for Microsoft's splashy partnership with the NFL: after spending millions to place the tablets and "coaching" players and announcers to finally get them to stop calling them iPads, they've popped up every weekend as players toss them around in frustration or they go haywire in various ways.
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During last night's preseason match-up between the Knicks and the Rockets, ESPN announcers Mark Jones and legendary ankle-grabber Jeff Van Gundy discussed the $21 million civil lawsuit accusing New York guard Derrick Rose and two friends of gang-raping a woman who was passed out after a night of drinking.
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"Wow, he easily could have rung him up there!" one of the announcers yelled, which in turn called forth in me an increasingly familiar neurosis: If Arrieta's next pitch was roped out into center field for a base hit, the no-hitter-that-should-have-been-a-no-hitter would be ruined.
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They incite announcers to verbal frenzies; lead to pitched battles (like those between Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in 1961 and between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in 1998); and rouse wonder when they are hammered long distances with startling power and velocity, as Aaron Judge of the Yankees has done this season.
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The sophomore guard had 12 points and an assist to help the Wildcats (36-4) pull ahead in the first half, then scored nine straight for Villanova midway through the second to put the game away -- capped by a 3-pointer he punctuated with a wink over to TV announcers Jim Nantz and Bill Raftery.
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Stephen Curry DeMarcus Cousins Chris Paul LaMarcus Aldridge Anthony Davis Draymond Green Kevin Durant James Harden Kawhi Leonard Kobe Bryant Klay Thompson Russell Westbrook Chris Bosh DeMar DeRozen Carmelo Anthony Kyle Lowry LeBron James Pau Gasol Andre Drummond Paul Millsap Paul George Isaiah Thomas Dwyane Wade John Wall Even TNT's anchors and announcers get custom Twitter emoji.
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After the first match I saw, some stepped outside or got something to eat, others gathered around a screen in the middle of the hall showing a Twitch stream operated by NuggetBridge, an online competitive Pokemon community, staffed by two in-hall announcers sporting snazzy headsets and a fella operating and monitoring the stream from a laptop.
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Nick estimates they've thrown roughly 50,000 of them in the past decade and the list of unfortunate recipients includes but is not limited to: Japanese fans, ring announcers, TV commentators, cameramen, Elmo, their own father, a former Playboy playmate, a female wrestler (while using a high-top coated with thumbtacks), and, oh yes, nine-year-old Luke.
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