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March Madness ...


The basketball season may not be just around the corner, but we have already called our first technical foul technical foul
n. Sports
A foul, especially in basketball, that is called on a player, coach, or team for unsportsmanlike conduct or infringement of a rule and does not usually involve physical contact with an opponent during play.
.

It is against Dick Enberg Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg (born January 9, 1935 in Mount Clemens, Michigan) is an American sportscaster. Enberg is one of the most prominent and respected play-by-play announcers in network television history, with a career spanning more than forty years. , a very intelligent and capable sports announcer. He keeps trying to convince us that Brent Brent, outer borough (1991 pop. 226,100) of Greater London, SE England. The area is a rail and industrial center. Its manufactures include automobile parts, clocks and watches, and electrical equipment.  Mussberg is a very special analyst with a flair for the language.

We do not know what language Mussberg can have a flair for, but we do know that he has accepted credit for one bright idiom of basketball's toniest idioms, "March Madness March Madness may refer to:
  • NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
  • NCAA March Madness series, an EA Sports basketball video game series
  • Mega March Madness, pay-per-view package
." It definitely isn't one of Brent's babies. What makes us so sure of that? Because we know the real father.

It was H.V. Porter, whom we consider the greatest athletic administrator of our time. He started in the Illinois State H.S. Association, and then went on to found the National Federation and serve as its executive administrator for the rest of his life.

He was a fabulous man--an incredible administrator, probably the best rules man in sports history and a surprisingly deft deft  
adj. deft·er, deft·est
Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous.



[Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft.
 and innovative litterateur.

You can find his "March Madness" expression on many of his NF reports and collections of light reading.
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Title Annotation:HERE BELOW; H.V. Porter
Author:Masin, Herman L.
Publication:Coach and Athletic Director
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 1, 2005
Words:187
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