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Every morning I turn first to the sports section of the newspaper, but not for the reasons you might imagine. I am not an athlete, and I follow professional and college sports indifferently at best. What quickens my pulse is not the tightness of a pennant race or a new record in the butterfly, but rather the language of sports writing. Where else can you find such a veritable lexicon of vivid verbs? Stomp, crush, rob, cream, nip, and vaporize are among my favourites. The euphemisms of political reporting and the dry objectivity of the finance and obituary sections are not for the sports writer, whose lifeblood is spectacle and hyperbole.