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 Mistaken Husband remains open. Alfred Harbage argued, on the basis of internal evidence of plotting, style, and subject matter, that both "The Mistaken Husband" and another problematical Dryden work, "The Wild Gallant", were based on otherwise-unknown plays by Richard Brome. Harbage asserts that the sexual scandal in "The Mistaken Husband" is typical of Brome's drama; he notes that Brome's "The Northern Lass" and "The Mistaken Husband" feature marriages dissolving on the basis on non-consummation; and he argues that "The frequent parenthetical constructions, the abrupt and often purposeless alternation of prose with blank verse...and, above all, the diction, the turn of phrase, the