The appropriately named... Josh Outman
the no-joke former MLB pitcher.
First saw him in AA at the Trenton Thunder.
Worked his way up.
Pitched in the bigs for a few years.
Larry
DevilHorse
1. D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Everyone else.
The appropriately named... Josh Outman
the no-joke former MLB pitcher.
First saw him in AA at the Trenton Thunder.
Worked his way up.
Pitched in the bigs for a few years.
Larry
DevilHorse
Seems like we've done this before.
But Duke once beat Pitt because Chris Blewitt missed a short field goal.
The famous 1966 Texas Western basketball team had a player named Willie Cager.
But Bronko Nagurski is not only the best sports name ever it might be the best NAME ever.
Brothers Majestic and Scientific Mapp.
Wonderful Terrific Monds Jr--49ers
Wonderful Terrific Monds III--Durham Bulls
You beat me to it--I always loved these two.
Another favorite is I-Perfection Harris, a Georgia Tech football recruit who ended up doing better in track and field. According to this Bleacher Report source, I-Perfection was shortened from Immaculate Perfection, and his brother was named Supreme Justice Harris, but I haven't independently verified that info.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Jack Youngblood
Colt McCoy
You cannot name your child 'Colt McCoy' and expect him to become anything other than a football player.
Cannot believe we let Virginia Tech sign Divine Deablo...how could he not be destined for Duke? (don't pester me about the spelling of Deablo, blame his mom and dad for that)...
...Tum Tum Nairn is still my favorite. I just can't stop laughing at "Tum Tum".
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill
President of the "Nolan Smith Should Have His Jersey in The Rafters" Club
I always loved Exree Hipp!
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb...ee-hipp-1.html
Good people drink good beer. -Hunter S. Thompson
I always liked Dexter Bussey.
Of course if you grew up with the name Dick Butkis in the south side of Chicago, you might grow up to be a baaaaad man.
Coco Crisp
Hard at work making beautiful things.
Michael William Krzyzewski
Was just flipping through CBS’s Candid Coaches series, which is excellent as always, and discovered that Oregon State has a player named Tres Tinkle. I’m not sure if that means he has to pee a lot or he has to pee three times, but either way, yikes!
This thread needs a link to the nominative determinism wiki page.
Ebby Calvin Laloosh
You need a nick name, honey!
No mention yet of Tyrone Shoelaces?