Personal scorebooks and published play-by-play accounts are worse.

For fans who choose to receive play-by-play accounts, the E-mail may flow at the rate of up to one message a minute.

Kerbawy ran back through the play-by-play account of the game and discovered she was right.

He offers a play-by-play account of marsupial mice who are shown going about their business: "They check each other out."

Since 1993, Turney has pored over play-by-play accounts of games played decades ago, adding up sacks that no one had counted before.

The photography is amazing, the graphics are illuminating, and the play-by-play account holds surprises.

In addition, the Web site kept up a play-by-play account as the race progressed and posted the finishers and times almost immediately.

Aside from ruling out play-by-play accounts on the Internet, the new contract requires newspapers to sell photos at cost to teams.

But, he added, "they are doing it in private and I'm not going to give you a play-by-play account."

His specialty was creating play-by-play accounts of games that the station received by wire.