‘The Dubs’

Ha! Like I said, most, not all

 

Roy Dubs was the point guard on my high school team. Fair ballhandler, no offensive threat.

That's all I got.

 

Used “Vikes” in a headline once. Copy desk came back and said, “No. Just no.”

 

We're on the third page and no one has brought up the "Wahoo Warriors" or "Fighting Braves of the Cuyahoga." Sad.

 

And Dubs got elected.
Heck of a job, Georgie.

 

Used to be banned in all three South Florida newspapers, but it occasionally made its way into the Herald and Sun Sentinel in recent years.

Also irritating is the use of "Fish." Bad to use it for the Marlins, but at least it's scientifically accurate. It's also used on occasion for the Dolphins, but the dolphin on the helmet and logo is the mammal version and not a mahi-mahi.

 

Fins, Fish, Dolfans ... All are alive and living well again, for years now, in the truncated pages of the Miami Herald.

 

The terrible thing is that we are doomed to generations of sportswriters who no longer have a crusty copy editor chewing their ass for writing like they hear the folks on SportsCenter talk. We don't have any crusty copy editors left, and even if they do exist they are probably a time zone away.

 

At one stop, a sports guy used ARod in a subhed on an Australian Open story. I knew he meant Andy Roddick, but kicked it back to him, telling him Alex Rodriguez wasn't entered.

 

I hate the nicknames for nicknames, but what are you going to do when you try to call Gonzaga the Bulldogs and they show up with Zags on their uniforms?

 

The Os

the As

and the Bucs

won't know what to think.

 

It kind of hacked me off as an A's fan when the Mariners and Orioles started doing that "M's" and "O's" thing. The odd thing is - with the Internet, there is no excuse for shortening a team name, just add a line to the hed.

I miss those Sporting News "notes" titles. "Mariners' Log," "Gi-Antics," "Halo Happenings".....anyone got any more?