Sports Talk: How It Has Penetrated Our Everyday Language

It's "game on" in uncovering the many sports-inspired terms, expressions and sayings that populate our everyday language! That's the challenge that this book takes on, using a "playbook" for each sport.After "going for the fences" and "covering all the bases" in the sport of baseball, the "ball is kept rolling," despite many a "sticky wicket," through the long-running game of cricket.In due course, football "kicks off" with continuing commentary from the author as "armchair quarterback," af...