Sports commentator There are however exceptions to this — most of the United Kingdom's leading cricket and snooker commentators are former professionals in their sports, while the former Formula One racing commentator Murray Walker had no formal journalistic training and only limited racing experience of his own. In the United States, George "Pat" Summerall, a former professional kicker, spent most of his broadcasting career as a play-by-play announcer. Although the combination of a play-by-play announcer and a color commentator is standard , in the past it was much more common for a broadcast to have no analysts and just have a single
The Bard (poem) and taste. Mr. Gray had a vitiated fondness for such insipid fable, narrative, and references. Dr. Johnson characteristically grumbled "I do not see that "The Bard" promotes any truth, moral or political", and found much of the imagery ridiculous. But from the very beginning Gray's complaint of universal misunderstanding was mistaken. In December 1757, only four months after "The Bard" was published, Gray was offered the Poet Laureateship . Favourable, even enthusiastic, reviews appeared in the "Critical Review", "Monthly Review" and "Literary Magazine", and their voices were soon echoed by many others. John Brown, a then fashionable social commentator, reportedly