He reasoned that the audio would serve as conspicuous hints that players could use to adjust their strategy.
As four of the world's top five men contested the semi-finals of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals here yesterday, one player was conspicuous by his absence.
The player most conspicuous in his absence, though, was right wing Ilya Kovalchuk, the team's most potent scorer, who has 13 years and more than $83 million remaining on a 15-year contract worth $100 million.
Meanwhile, Tiger Woods, the world's No. 1 player, was conspicuous by his absence on the leader board, nine strokes behind Duval, after today's 72 left him three over par for the tournament.
Meanwhile, other big international players are conspicuous by their absence.
Cheating is hard because consulting a dictionary or an anagram-solving website would be rather conspicuous to the other players.
It will be some time, I fear, before anyone commissions a steamy drama, full of sex, intrigue, and conspicuous consumption, about curling players' husbands.
After all, the phone-hacking pile-on is the equivalent of the moment where the player discovers the conspicuous glowing nodule just under its tail and concentrates his fire on that weak spot.
Founded in 1999 by accessories designers Richard Lambertson and John Truex, the New York-based company was a minor player in the conspicuous consumption wave that hit retailers in the earlier part of this decade.
They had transmuted from being male chattels, said Veblen, to becoming lead players in driving conspicuous consumption.
