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- Name: Nick W.
- Location: Wisconsin, United States
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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. ~Shelby Foote
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Eats, Shoots, Leaves: Sports Edition
From CBS sportsline.com:
Bonus E,S,L: Sports Edition, from the same source:
One other, semi-related, question for you all-- when did it become standard practice in journalism for nearly every sentence to be a separate paragraph? I recall a time, not that long ago, when a one sentence paragraph was a rarity, an anamoly, a thing the other, longer and more robust paragraphs would tease and laugh at. No longer. Of the 21 paragraphs in the sportsline.com article from which I pulled the above E,S,L entries, eleven of them were one sentence long. Only two were longer than two sentences long, and both of those only because they contained quotes that involved several sentences.
My guess is it's an ADHD thing. Which is a bit sad-- but does remind me to appeal to my own ADHD readers:
No, she's not a cheerleader for the Colorado Rockies, but she is a cheerleader for the Denver Broncos, which is close enough for government work. This does raise the important question of 'Why don't baseball teams have cheerleaders?'
Colorado had two on with two outs in the sixth inning after Santos came out, but Rick Helling induced pinch-hitter J.D. Closser on a fly to right.Helling induced Closser? To what, have a baby? The true wonder of it all is that Helling induced Closser on a fly to right-- how'd they both fit on there?
Bonus E,S,L: Sports Edition, from the same source:
He came off the disabled list with a broken pinkie? You'd think they'd leave him on the list until that healed.Holliday had two hits, boosting his average to .359 in 27 games since coming off the disabled list with a broken pinkie on July 19.
One other, semi-related, question for you all-- when did it become standard practice in journalism for nearly every sentence to be a separate paragraph? I recall a time, not that long ago, when a one sentence paragraph was a rarity, an anamoly, a thing the other, longer and more robust paragraphs would tease and laugh at. No longer. Of the 21 paragraphs in the sportsline.com article from which I pulled the above E,S,L entries, eleven of them were one sentence long. Only two were longer than two sentences long, and both of those only because they contained quotes that involved several sentences.
My guess is it's an ADHD thing. Which is a bit sad-- but does remind me to appeal to my own ADHD readers:
No, she's not a cheerleader for the Colorado Rockies, but she is a cheerleader for the Denver Broncos, which is close enough for government work. This does raise the important question of 'Why don't baseball teams have cheerleaders?'
