Building on Jon Bois’ earlier commentary here in our From Our Editors section, every New Year’s, Lake Superior State University (Upper Peninsula of Michigan, hockey school) releases a list of banished words. Being an editor by trade, this is something I look for every year at this time.
Revising The College Hoops Dictionary: It’s Time For Some Bannings!
↵The highlights of this year’s list include “tweet,” “app,” “friend” (as in the Facebook variety) and “chillaxin.”
↵All worthy choices, but listening to the usually good Clark Kellogg provide commentary for Louisville-Kentucky provides a few choices for a list of words that should be banned from sports broadcasting.
↵Tim Stephens of the Orlando Sentinel mentioned a couple of great nominees on Twitter.
↵↵Ah, we get the first “spurtability” of the day. I’m waiting for my “predicated.”
↵↵I’d like to nominate my own personal broadcasting bugbear, “scoring the ball.” Why? Because if you actually attempted to score a basketball while playing with it, the thing would become flat and unusable.
↵So what terms do you want to see eliminated from the sports broadcasting dictionary?
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