beeper ball n.— «Staying in the vein of special needs, four teams of visually impaired baseball players met Saturday for New York’s first ever blind baseball tournament. Unlike traditional versions of our national pastime, beeper ball (or...
three jack n.— «In golf parlance, it was the dreaded “three jack” on Oakmont’s vicious No. 1 green that did in Baddeley. He missed an 8-foot putt for bogey. Knifed a 4-footer coming back for double and then holed the short...
four-peat n.— «Punahou finally made “four-peat” an official word in the baseball state tournament vocabulary tonight, cooling off Pearl City’s hot bats to win, 7-1, and become the first team to capture four straight Wally...
wrap-around adj.— «I discovered another term for network airing of the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments Friday morning: wrap-around coverage. Rather than focus on a single game, ESPN will switch among several games while...
gagaroony n.— «There were no high-pitched squeals at errors as there had been during this tournament. There weren’t too many “gag-a-roonies,” as she calls them, to shriek of.» —“Tears for sister—Serena...
moving day n.— «Lonard was invariably in contention after the opening two rounds but slipped over the weekend. The third round of any golf tournament is typically referred to as moving day. It is supposed to be the day when contenders...