avoiding sportscaster grammar why is there now a would epidemic in writing about sports i remember when notre dame simply finished or endured or went now they would finish would endure and would go this is bad grammar and it reads like ex jock sportscasters sound ignorant but wanting to seem important let's try not to become part of the problem past tense is perfectly acceptable and at times is necessary if we wish not to look and sound like morons who try and fail to be eloquent