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A stickler for defense, Cronin had yelled at Harris and threatened to throw him out of a recent practice that was open to reporters because the guard was not executing traps to the coach’s liking.

Zimmerman is a stickler for by-the-books diagnostic techniques.

But it would be easy for the court to be a stickler for detail about late-arriving ballots or, you know, some of the out-and-out voter suppression that we see going on.

"I'm a stickler for the rules," said the 2021 captain, who is at this week's Irish Open.

If brat described our wild and unapologetically messy summers, then exemplary manners, politeness and being a stickler for rules is what's taking us into autumn.