Sports Phrases That Need To Go

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Published: September 3, 2009

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... and poetic people of my generation have been sportscasters and announcers.

You get it all in the world of sports vocabulary. There's tried and true cliches, media glad-handing, politico-speak in which you say a lot of words and nothing of substance, attacking players and teams through the media, etc.

This is not an article about great quotes in sports history. Rather, this is an article regarding my opinion as to which phrases have become overused, are stupid or pointless, or simply offensive. Some have elements of all.

Some of these are not limited to the sporting landscape and have a hold on the whole of society, but are used ad nauseum in sports talk, so they make the list.

The first is probably the best example of combining overusage with ignorance and insensitivity.

 

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