I was browsing nytimes.com last night and ran across this headline “Basketball Prospect Leaving High School to Play in Europe” and because I’m curious I followed it through to the article where nytimes.com proved once again that even The New York Times needs editors.
SAN DIEGO — Jeremy Tyler, a 6-foot-11 high school junior whom some consider the best American big man since Greg Oden, says he will be taking a new path to the N.B.A. He has left San Diego High School and said this week that he would skip his senior year to play professionally in Europe.
Tyler, 17, would become the first United States-born player to leave high school early to play professionally overseas. He is expected to return in two years, when he is projected to be a top pick, if not the No. 1 pick, in the 2011 N.B.A. draft.
Tyler, who had orally committed to play for Rick Pitino at Louisville, has yet to sign with an agent or a professional team.
“Basketball Prospect Leaving High School to Play in Europe” by Pete Thamel, Published April 22, 2009, The New York Times
Now, M-W.com defines orally as “uttered by the mouth or in words : spoken” but given the connotations wouldn’t verbally (spoken rather than written) have been a better choice?
I concur. Orally makes it sound like he holds his pen in his mouth.