In 1992, the team fell further to a 6-10 record, leading a combative Handley to trade verbal darts with both the media and his players.

He also fired a verbal dart at the struggling team across the Hudson River.

Issib couldn't pass up the chance to cast a verbal dart.

Players in Berra's era flung cruder verbal darts, too.

Childs, still throwing verbal darts at his former team after the game, said he would love to meet the Knicks in the playoffs.

Celebrities and politicians of all stripes have lined up on both sides, throwing verbal darts at one another.

Mr. Rudnick is best at forging tiny verbal darts that tickle more than they sting.

Completely out of character at times, he was known to throw a verbal dart, in the shape of a pungent remark, and shatter one's ego.

It is just that they cannot resist the fun of flinging verbal darts at each other.

In the five previous debates, Edwards's strategy has been to avoid the verbal darts the other candidates have been aiming at one another.