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Message: [QUOTE="Tufkas, post: 4520554"] I grew up obsessed with play-by-play of sports, with Marv Albert for basketball and hockey (Dan Kelly on TV), Marty Glickman for football, and Rizzuto, Coleman, Red Barber and Mel Allen for baseball. I was the co-play-by-play voice of our basketball team on the college FM radio station, training incoming freshman and sophomores. FOR ME (horses for courses), women's basketball broadcasts are sub-par, SNY particularly so. Unlike the men's games, where the the analyts are tactical, the women's side amplify what we are seeing. "That was a great cut." "What a block!" Much prefer the late Billy Packer's dissection of offense and defense tactics. Al McGuire's (my personal favorite) idiosyncratic analysis laced with humor and deprecation. "Get it to the senior" in the last minutes, "Stop the ball" - things I took into my own coaching dalliances. They'd question coaching decisions, discuss upcoming critical choices. Jim Nance (who I don't fancy as a football announcer) conveyed a seriousness about each play. Things like playing "2 for 1" against the shot clock at the end of a quarter. The women's game has all the same nuance and strategy as the men's. For me, it's disappointing the network talent doesn't treat it as such. [/QUOTE]