The British parliamentary style continues to spread in global participation, and American debate minds -- rhetoric scholars, coaches, and successful debaters -- have worked extensively to introduce debate practices and developed argumentation theory to other countries.
That is old coaching rhetoric: build them up, lift their self-esteem.
Since then, there has been a softening of the rhetoric — among players, coaches and even journalists — about retribution.
Sometimes, Rubenstein's statements contained faint echoes of Steinbrenner's gung-ho, football coach's rhetoric.
He says "Bless you" to the reporters who sneeze in the locker room, after games, as if to counteract all the separatist rhetoric of the Rangers' coach, John Tortorella.
Organized sports are an attempt, through regimentation (uniforms and trophies) and rhetoric (rah-rah boosterism and coach talk), to give an inherently pointless activity some kind of point, to inject a purpose into play.
Several NBA coaches condemned Trump's racist and sexist rhetoric after his victory, including Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy, who called the president-elect "openly and brazenly racist and misogynistic and ethnic-centric" the day after the election. .
He is a decent coach and well liked, but his rhetoric rarely inspires in the way his predecessor's had.
Peter Paskale is a committed word-nerd, communications coach, and co-author of The Dirty Rhetoric Toolkit for writers and presenters.
I look at the evangelicals and wonder: 'Those values don't mean anything to them?'" Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy and Warriors coach Steve Kerr also criticised Trump's rhetoric earlier this week.
