WHAT WE LIKE - Dave Westwood at Bluenose
In the right hands, live blogging such as offered by the Cover It
Live platform can be great tool for covering a live event such as
squash.
When Dave Westwood is your live blogger and host ... you are in for something rare.
I have assembled a very random sampling of Westwood's running text banter from the Bluenose Squash Classic Semi-Finals below (the full replay is available HERE).
If he is half as good in front of a microphone, maybe the PSA should look him up for the PSA Squash TV broadcasts?!
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Still in the first rally 3 minutes later.
Selby exhuming that drop.
Barker just sent that crosscourt into another time zone but Selby somehow lunges to the back corner and sends it right back.
Players joking with each other a bit after that yes let. Something about who has the nicer calves.
Hard to say from up here.
Maybe our readers can weigh in on that one.
Selby waits patiently for Barker's lob to fall. His weak reply is fodder for Barker's cannon.
Both players willing to play through minor obstruction. Refreshing.
I imagine that ball is hot like lava.
OK maybe a slight exaggeration there, before you geophysicists challenge that assertion.
He's now strolling around court 4 inhaling some fluids and something out of what looks like a portion-controlled package of ketchup. I'll bet $5 that's not actually what it is.
Barker gets out his sphygmomanometer, anxious to dial up more pressure.
Wasn't sure how I would squeeze that word in, but mission accomplished.
Some geographical humour downstairs as a fan yells out "Go England"
Lincou unearths that Palmer drop with grace and ease.
Both players read each other like a gossip magazine on that last rally, ferocious quick volleys both ways with Palmer positively prevailing.
Lincou like the statue of Liberty on that play, a high backhand volley drop. Palmer is there to liberate it from the floor.
Both players playing a game of 'who can hit the skin off the ball first'
Tremendous squash tonight by all four competitors this afternoon. The courts here at Saint Mary's University (The Tower) have never seen such action. Explosive drives, delicate drops, devastating crosscourts and arcing lobs. Something for everyone tonight.
David Palmer and Peter Barker are now free to explore the exciting Halifax nightlife, while Thierry Lincou and Daryl Selby will be pleased to retire early this evening ready to go head to head on Sunday afternoon's final.
That's it for me squash fans. Thanks for logging along with me tonight and I hope you got the news you were hoping for.
251 total readers tonight, a new record!
Have a [insert big word for wonderful] evening and see you back tomorrow afternoon.
We're back at 2pm local time (Atlantic Standard) which is 1pm Eastern Standard Time and I think 6pm GMT (but check your local listings).
When Dave Westwood is your live blogger and host ... you are in for something rare.
I have assembled a very random sampling of Westwood's running text banter from the Bluenose Squash Classic Semi-Finals below (the full replay is available HERE).
If he is half as good in front of a microphone, maybe the PSA should look him up for the PSA Squash TV broadcasts?!
************************
Still in the first rally 3 minutes later.
Selby exhuming that drop.
| Oooh a point. Barker comments to the gallery upstairs "Not all the rallys will be this boring, I promise" |
Barker just sent that crosscourt into another time zone but Selby somehow lunges to the back corner and sends it right back.
Players joking with each other a bit after that yes let. Something about who has the nicer calves.
Hard to say from up here.
Maybe our readers can weigh in on that one.
Selby waits patiently for Barker's lob to fall. His weak reply is fodder for Barker's cannon.
Both players willing to play through minor obstruction. Refreshing.
I imagine that ball is hot like lava.
OK maybe a slight exaggeration there, before you geophysicists challenge that assertion.
He's now strolling around court 4 inhaling some fluids and something out of what looks like a portion-controlled package of ketchup. I'll bet $5 that's not actually what it is.
Barker gets out his sphygmomanometer, anxious to dial up more pressure.
Wasn't sure how I would squeeze that word in, but mission accomplished.
Some geographical humour downstairs as a fan yells out "Go England"
Lincou unearths that Palmer drop with grace and ease.
Both players read each other like a gossip magazine on that last rally, ferocious quick volleys both ways with Palmer positively prevailing.
Lincou like the statue of Liberty on that play, a high backhand volley drop. Palmer is there to liberate it from the floor.
Both players playing a game of 'who can hit the skin off the ball first'
Tremendous squash tonight by all four competitors this afternoon. The courts here at Saint Mary's University (The Tower) have never seen such action. Explosive drives, delicate drops, devastating crosscourts and arcing lobs. Something for everyone tonight.
David Palmer and Peter Barker are now free to explore the exciting Halifax nightlife, while Thierry Lincou and Daryl Selby will be pleased to retire early this evening ready to go head to head on Sunday afternoon's final.
That's it for me squash fans. Thanks for logging along with me tonight and I hope you got the news you were hoping for.
251 total readers tonight, a new record!
Have a [insert big word for wonderful] evening and see you back tomorrow afternoon.
We're back at 2pm local time (Atlantic Standard) which is 1pm Eastern Standard Time and I think 6pm GMT (but check your local listings).
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