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This is a list of nicknames of Major League Baseball teams and players. It includes a complete list of nicknames of players in the Baseball Hall of Fame, a list of nicknames of current players, nicknames of popular players who have played for each major league team, and lists of nicknames grouped into particular categories (e.g., ethnic nicknames, personality trait nicknames etc.). [1]
This is a summary of the evolution of names of the current professional Major League Baseball teams in the National League (organized 1876) and subsequent rival American League (established 1901), and also of selected former major and minor league teams whose names were influential, long-lasting, or both. The sources of the names included club ...
Throughout the league's history, a number of rules have been enacted largely because of exploits on the field by a single coach, owner, player, or referee. The following is a partial list of such rule changes: Bert Emanuel rule: [357] The ball may touch the ground during a completed pass as long as the receiver maintains control of the ball.
It is a list not of the Browns' best or their worst draft picks of all-time. It is a list of 11 somewhat random draft picks with interesting stories and catchy or unusual names.
By nickname "Ain'ts*" – New Orleans Saints, NFL; rhyming play on the non-standard English negative ain't [30] "America's Team" – Dallas Cowboys, by sports media [31] "B.I.L.L.S.*" – Buffalo Bills, by detractors, acronyms for "Boy I Love Losing Super Bowls", in reference to the team's failure to win the Super Bowl in four straight tries during the early 1990s [32]
The list of players to record six top-five MVP finishes in a seven-year span or eight straight top-10 finishes, which Harden did for the Houston Rockets, is not all that different.
Utah Utes men's basketball team, 1943–44 – "Blitz Kids" (freshmen Arnie Ferrin, Herb Wilkinson, Wat Misaka, Bob Lewis, Dick Smuin, Bill Kastlic and sophomore Fred Sheffield) [226] Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball in the late 1940s – "Fabulous Five" [ 227 ] ( Alex Groza , Ralph Beard , Wallace Jones , Cliff Barker and Ken Rollins ).
It’s an annual rite of passage that signals the official start of the NBA preseason: Yahoo Sports NBA’s yearly slideshow of every team’s most awkward media day photo.