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Great Names in Sports

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by heyabbott, Oct 15, 2012.

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  1. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Barkevious
     
    Steak Snabler, Oct 15, 2012
    #25
  2. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    He should be in the Deadspin banner.
     
    LongTimeListener, Oct 15, 2012
    #26
  3. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Cal McLish was a pitcher for several teams in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. His full name was Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish.

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mclisca01.shtml
     
    Steak Snabler, Oct 15, 2012
    #27
  4. MUTigers

    MUTigers Member

    University of Memphis basketball player (now deceased):
    Baskerville Holmes
     
    MUTigers, Oct 15, 2012
    #28
  5. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Mike Stonebreaker
    Scientific Mapp
     
    Buck, Oct 15, 2012
    #29
  6. Flip Wilson

    Flip Wilson Well-Known Member

    Rusty Nail is the football coach at Mart (Texas) High School, in Central Texas.
     
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    Flip Wilson, Oct 15, 2012
    #30
  7. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    I once covered a kid who was a pretty good high school baseball player named Rocky Butts.
     
    Steak Snabler, Oct 16, 2012
    #31
  8. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Miracle Fingers
     
    SpeedTchr, Oct 16, 2012
    #32
  9. ColdCat

    ColdCat Well-Known Member

    Randy Johnson
    Magic Johnson
    Louisville basketball player from the mid-90s Beauzach Smith
    University of Michigan womens basketball player from the early 00s Anna Thorius, nicknamed 'Na Thorius
     
    ColdCat, Oct 16, 2012
    #33
  10. canucklehead

    canucklehead Active Member

    irina Slutskaya
     
    canucklehead, Oct 16, 2012
    #34
  11. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Karina Christmas, Indiana Fever, Duke basketball
    Sunday Adebayo, Arkansas basketball
     
    HanSenSE, Oct 16, 2012
    #35
  12. Shoeless Joe

    Shoeless Joe Active Member

    Not a person but a bike. The bikes Team Telecom rode were made by Giant. Take the German word team is mannschaft. Therefore, you have Giant Mannschaft.
    It would suck being the unlucky guy who has to make the commercial in English. "For a long hard ride, I enjoy straddling a Giant Mannschaft."

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    Shoeless Joe, Oct 16, 2012
    #36
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