Great Sports Names

[Scott D]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/images/2005/07/26/sidebottom_celeb_turner_out_470x365.jpg

Cricket player Ryan Sidebottom

your turn.

[royalfan5]

Royals Minor Leaguer Rowdy Hardy

[slickdawg]

Incoming Mississippi State defensive back Mike Hunt.

[goingoneight]

John David Booty
Mark "Dirty" Sanchez
Houston Nutt
Casey Dick...

:D

[OCUDad]

Former baseball player: Wonderful Terrific Monds.

[royalfan5]

Former baseball player: Wonderful Terrific Monds.
He was a All-American Football player at Nebraska.

[GottaHavePride]

Dick Trickle.

[OCUDad]

And a career minor leaguer in the Atlanta and Cincinnati organizations. Monds, I mean.

[royalfan5]

Also, Kevin Harvick Inc. Busch Series Driver Cale Gale.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

Former Providence basketball player God Shamgod

[GottaHavePride]

Miroslav Satan.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

World B Free

[OUstud]

Magic Johnson

[Frozen Sooner]

Ben Gay (former Baylor running back)
Can't remember the last name, but there was some dude who played football in OKC named Kokane.
Joe Howard Johnson (RB for Washington)
Mercury Morris.

[jk the sooner fan]

Dick Trickle.

winner.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

Tshimanga Biakabatuka

[stoops the eternal pimp]

one of the most influential members of the International Olympic Committee..................Dick Pound

[Frozen Sooner]

Kennesaw Mountain Landis

[Harry Beanbag]

Majestic Mapp and his brother Scientific

[SteelClip49]

Lucious Pusey

[hurricane'bone]

Dick Pound

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200310/r10892_25671.jpg

[Shamrock]

He was a Bugeater ..... I.M. Hipp (http://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/players.nsf/ID/06120073)

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Former Providence basketball player God ShamgodI chuckle at this one!

Also, former orange aggy "Farlan Dindy"(it just sounds so , well..er, ah,...STUPID!
"Plaxico Burris"..heh, PLAXICO! (what on earth?)

[birddog]

fuamatu-maafala
bronco nagurski

[OUTromBoNado]

Jim Bob Cooter...he was a backup QB at Tennessee a few years ago.

[John Kochtoston]

Can't remember the last name, but there was some dude who played football in OKC named Kokane.


Kokaine Mothershed, played QB for Missouri Southern. He had a sister named Maryhuana (not sure of the spelling, but the name itself is my hand to God accurate).

[StoopTroup]

Ken Trickey....fired at ORU for a DUI after an NCAA Tourny Game I believe.

He was a good Basketball Coach IMO.

Still lives in Tulsa.

[jthomasou78]

Former OU running back Buster Rhymes.

[AlbqSooner]

Dick Butkus

[RacerX]

Boston Red Sox - Coco Crisp

[RacerX]

Former KC Royal - Buddy Biancalana (just like the way it sounds)

[TUSooner]

Coco Crisp of the Red Sox,
and what about Elvis Peacock?

[TUSooner]

Boston Red Sox - Coco Crisp

Beat me to it by a minute!

[birddog]

golfer notah begay

[SoonerAcesUp]

LPGA golfer: Birdie Kim

[I_SMELL_FEAR]

I always thought Bobby Purify (CU RB) was a great football name.

[BillyBall]

Richie Incognito

[SoonerStud615]

DeCody Fagg

[colleyvillesooner]

Milton Bradley

[Scott D]

Bear Trapp

[Paperclip]

Former Maryland Terrapin - Joe Smith

[Scott D]

Mariners relief pitcher - J.J. Putz

[CUinNC]

Rusty Kuntz

coached for Florida Marlins

[BillyBall]

Kaka

[Scott D]

Kaka

disqualified...nicknames don't count, his name is Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite

[Partial Qualifier]

Former nascar driver Willy T. Ribbs
former OU relief pitcher Bucky Buckles

come to think of it, there were 2 other good names on that CWS championship team: Rich Hills & Chip Glass.

I always thought Mickey Mantle was a great name.

[BillyBall]

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite

[sooner_born_1960]

Bronko Nagurski

[BillyBall]

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

[AllAboutThe'O']

Dick Pole, former MLB pitcher and current Cincinnati Reds pitching coach.

[TUSooner]

Has anybody said
Joe
Don
Looney?
('cuz he pretty much was)

[dolemitesooner]

Tiger Woods

[KC//CRIMSON]

The greatest sports name starts and ends with Mookie Blaylock.

[royalfan5]

The greatest sports name starts and ends with Mookie Blaylock.
He did briefly have a band named after him, but was a rip-off of Mookie Wilson.

[Harry Beanbag]

He did briefly have a band named after him, but was a rip-off of Mookie Wilson.


Pearl Jam was called Mookie Blaylock for a time in their early years. Their album Ten was in reference to Mookie's jersey number.

[goingoneight]

My friend's father's name is Cash Register, I believe he's Cash II, but he goes by Casey. He had to have played some kinda sport in his life, right?

[RacerX]

Felix Pie - Cubs

[hurricane'bone]

He has a teammate named: Theriot

and mmmm.....pie.....

[AllAboutThe'O']

Felix Pie - Cubs
Not pronounced like the food, though. More like P.A.

More candidates for the all-food team:

Jack Ham, Hall of Fame LB for the Steelers

Chris Hanburger, former great Washington Redskin linebacker

Deron Cherry, former K.C. Chiefs DB

Chip Banks, former LB for the Browns

Darryl Strawberry, former Met superstar

Coco Crisp, current Red Sox CF

[AllAboutThe'O']

He has a teammate named: Theriot

and mmmm.....pie.....


And another teammate named Fontenot. Both him and Theriot played at LSU.

[Flagstaffsooner]

I always liked Early Wynn.

[go48]

C'mon guys, we got one of our own...LONGAR LONGAR!

[Mixer!]

Baskerville Holmes - RIP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baskerville_Holmes)

[goingoneight]

Onyenageicha?

(I'm gonna get ya) That would have been allsome if he was one of those mean JC tranfers like Marshall. I'd forever remember him for that name. Sounds like more of a linebacker name, maybe that's why it didn't pan out so well. :confused:

[Frozen Sooner]

Dick Tharp.
Tree Rollins (what a great name for a center!)

[SteelClip49]

Former World Series of Poker Champion, Huck Seed

[VeeJay]

Adewale Ogunleye

Chicago Bears defensive end.

He's from Nigerian royalty - his grandfather was king of the city of Emure.

So there's your Nigerian e-mail scam fugger.