Uh oh, UCLA Bruins experience “eminent” loss. Chris Foster, a Los Angeles Times beat writer covering the UCLA Bruins football team, described the emotions of the team as they looked at the scoreboard minutes before being roundly defeated by their upstate rival the California Golden Bears in Berkeley,
California. He said, “Another loss was eminent, a [...]

Gary Klein, beat writer for the University of Southern California
Trojan football team, said of Willie Tuitama, an opposing quarterback
for the University of Arizona Wildcats, a team USC would soon face:
“Arizona’s Wilie Tuitama qualifies as the most experienced passer the
Trojans will face during the conference schedule.”
Klein meant to say: “…qualifies as the most experienced passer the
Trojans [...]

Billy MacDonald, a genial local television sportscaster in Los
Angeles, who attended both USC and UCLA, recently interviewed University of Southern California
football line coach Pat Ruel. The focus of MacDonald’s questioning
hinged on Ruel’s charges playing at high levels of efficiency: How is
it they perform so well, asked MacDonald, also known as Billy Mac.
“Our guys push [...]

It should relieve many who are afraid of or who haven’t a care for punctuation that its rules are not absolute. After all, respected writers work craftily with punctuation while providing readers fresh experiences. At the very least, punctuation creates pace and rhythm. None of us appreciate monotony. From a Timothy Rutten book review of [...]