A team losing a game is not a "disaster."
Home runs are homers, not "dingers," "jacks" or "bombs."
A player scored 10 straight points, not 10 "unanswered" points.
If a football team scores two touchdowns and the opponent doesn't come back, say it "never trailed" rather than "never looked back."
In short, avoid hackneyed words and phrases, redundancies and exaggerations.
Just so we’re clear, the #ABPoll will not be released today. Unlike the AP Poll whose voters hastily send in their votes just making small adjustments to last week’s bad rankings, the AB Voters will take the time to pour over the results and carefully build the correct rankings.