Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A radio or television broadcast of a sports event or of sports news.
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- noun The part of a
news program reporting onsports andathletics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb broadcast a sports event
- noun a broadcast of sports news or commentary
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We will get in spirited 60-to-90 second debates in the middle of a sportscast about Dan Snyder.
Haber, Hellie, Feldman on the Redskins Dan Steinberg 2011
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Some of the scenarios showcased in "Como Evitar Enamorarse del Hombre Equivocado" seem hackneyed the "it's-not-you-it's-me" breakup scene, the husband who keeps an eye on a sportscast while having sex with his wife.
Theater review of 'Como Evitar Enamorarse del Hombre Equivocado': Watch out, men 2011
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Brenner never took himself or his subject matter all too seriously, producing a highly entertaining sportscast that included his "weenie of the week" feature and a local nun picking NFL winners against the point spread.
Top 10: Washington sports broadcasters well worth the air time 2010
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It feels wrong to recognize the Tiger anniversary, but surely there will be those who acknowledge it, with a quick note in an evening sportscast or perhaps a creepy crawl at the bottom of the screen:
Tiger, a Year Later Jason Gay 2010
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Brenner never took himself or his subject matter all too seriously, producing a highly entertaining sportscast that included his "weenie of the week" feature and a local nun picking NFL winners against the point spread.
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Brian Collins 'sportscast to get to the Internet catch phrase.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Guyer, as we just saw, suggests that all of our conscious experiences might have featured a time clock, much like a television sportscast or a video camera (1987: 244; cf. Strawson 1966).
Kant's Transcendental Arguments Pereboom, Derk 2009
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Every night in most big cities the sportscast reports the hockey scores.
Robert Creamer: Why the Long Primary Battle with Clinton Will Actually Help Obama Win in November 2008
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The video in question (which can be seen at below) shows a young Sarah Palin, then Sarah Heath, reading a sportscast during her brief stint as a local broadcaster at KTUU in Anchorage back in 1988.
Billy Kimball: Shocking New Video Calls Palin's Qualifications into Question 2008
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Synchronism, transcript of an old Imus sportscast with Mike Breen, that starts with I Am Woman, reporting on ladies' golf.
"But I'm still an embryo/With a long, long way to go." Ann Althouse 2008
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