ボールを蹴る選手を「kicking」ではなく「kicks」と表現する理由。 

Why Do Sportscasters Use the Historical Present?

Like newspaper headlines and personal anecdotes (So I’m walking down the street yesterday, and this guy comes up to me and he says …), sportscasting makes frequent use of the present tense. Unlike other uses of the historical present—which refer to actual past events—the sports announcer is commenting on a……