Somehow, he could never bring himself to trade verbal volleys with Titus-George.

Jeter, who will be 28 in three months, returned a verbal volley by asking Williams when he planned to shine his shaved head.

Their verbal volleys were getting them nowhere.

But he was not about to return Steinbrenner's verbal volley.

Since then verbal volleys have been judged sufficient, with an occasional ashtray from a player outgunned in the language department.

Will it be easy to bury these verbal volleys?

And since both won world championships recently in 154-pound weight classes, the verbal volleys have been flying back and forth between the two.

"I just might surprise you one of these days," she said, in keeping with how the verbal volley usually ended.

A verbal volley demanding his support at the United Nations for military action on Iraq is coming from American officials.

Pride is the operative word in this series, considering Pierce hurled the first verbal volley Thursday.