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See also: List of nicknames used in basketball. "Ack-Ack" = Tom Heinsohn, American forward-center [ 4 ] "Action Jackson" = Mark Jackson, American point guard [ 5 ] "The Admiral" = David Robinson, American center [ 6 ] "A.I." = Allen Iverson, American shooting guard [ 7 ] "Air Jordan" = Michael Jordan, American shooting guard.
The Boys of Summer [34] – From the Brooklyn years – Reference to baseball being the only major team sport played during the summer. As with "Dem Bums", usage of this nickname for the Dodgers has faded with time; "Boys of Summer" is now often used to refer to baseball players in general. The Azul- Spanish word for blue
This is a list of nicknames in the sport of basketball. Most are related to professional basketball, ... [10] "Super Cool Beas" [25] Marco Belinelli – "Beli" [26]
By JOHN DORN and JARED RUSSO NBA nicknames have taken on lives of their own over recent decades. Historically very good, the current generation has been known to crank out some terrible monikers ...
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]
This is a list of nicknames in the sport of ice hockey. Most are related to professional ice hockey such as the National Hockey League. A few notable nicknames from the Canadian major junior hockey leagues, the U.S. colleges, and national teams are excluded.
Ain'ts: [1] Nickname given to the New Orleans Saints after their 1980 season of 14 consecutive losses. The name persisted somewhat as, although they would later qualify for the playoffs several times since then, they did not win a playoff game until their defeat of the defending Super Bowl champion Rams in the wild-card round of the 2000–01 playoffs.
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