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Presenting The 2014 Name Of The Year Bracket, A Shitavious Gruntfest
Name of the Year dates to the fall of 1982 and names taped to a dorm-room door on an Ivy campus: Dexter Manley, Cornelius Boza-Edwards, Baskerville Holmes. The following spring, Hector (Macho) Camacho...
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2014 Name Of The Year: Bulltron And Sithole Regionals, Round 1
The 2014 Name of the Year tournament kicks off today in the quadrants named after Assumption Bulltron, crowned the first-ever Name of the Decade, and Godfrey Sithole, the 1985 Name of the Year...
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2014 Name of the Year: Dragonwagon and Chrotchtangle Regionals, Round 1
We love it when our name-inees display some competitive spirit, so we were thrilled to receive an email in that vein last night from Bulltron competitor Bernie Wagenblast. Here’s what he had to say:...
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2014 Name of the Year: Round Two, And A Note On Middle Names
Before we get to the second round of our tournament, I’d like to share a tip we received from a reader named Jeffrey. Jeffrey is not himself a Name of the Year nominee, but he is a Brandeis alum...
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2014 Name Of The Year: The Sweet 16
We had a polling malfunction last week: The Bulltron and Sithole polls inexplicably closed early. Our bad, and thanks for letting us know on Twitter so we could re-open them; we might not have caught...
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Name Of The Year 2014: The Elite Eight
We’re down to just eight splendid name-inees, and we’re happy to see each one of them picking up their own fan groups. The comments section has provided a thorough analysis to complement our own, and...
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2014 Name Of The Year: The Final Four
We’re nearing the summit of this year’s tourney, and the venerable spirits of Assumption Bulltron, Godfrey Sithole, Crescent Dragonwagon, and Doby Chrotchtangle have each found favor with a champion....
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Name Of The Year 2014 Final: Shamus Beaglehole Vs. Chillie Poon
This is it. This is the showdown we’ve waited an entire year for (OK, more like five months). In one corner, we have Shamus Beaglehole: English footballer, #3 seed of the Sithole Regional, vanquisher...
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Presenting Your 2014 Name Of The Year
Shamus Beaglehole has prevailed. Here’s to you, Shamus. Read more…
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Donte Whitner No Longer Changing His Name To One That’s Nearly "Hitler"
The Browns’ newest safety has decided against legally changing his name to Donte Hitner, and not for the obvious reason that you totally read it as something else upon first glance. Read more…
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The Most Commonly Misspelled Sports Names
In honor of the National Spelling Bee (which really ought to be a federal holiday), The Wall Street Journal has compiled a ranking of the athletes (and one Polish-Catholic coach) whose names are most...
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Blake Drake, Joey Pankake, Chase Corn, Maverik Buffo, and all the other great...
Blake Drake, Joey Pankake, Chase Corn, Maverik Buffo, and all the other great names in the MLB draft. Read more…
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People Try To Pronounce World Cup Names, With A Nicolas Cage Twist
This is not an average “people on the street struggle to pronounce foreign names” video tied into the World Cup. It’s much, much better. Read more…
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Where Hulk, Cristiano Ronaldo And Other World Cup Stars Got Their Names
It’s fitting that the World Cup hosted by Brazil, a country with such a unique anthroponomastic culture, is lousy with guys bearing interesting names and sobriquets. And while hearing these names and...
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Melvin Upton Explains His Name Change
Yesterday, MLB.com reported that Braves outfielder B.J. Upton will start going by his legal name, Melvin Upton Jr. That means it’ll change on his uniform, on the scoreboard, even on his bats. Today,...
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Life Ain’t Easy For A Basketball Player Named Fuck
That up there is a real headline, in a real newspaper, on a real story about a real basketball player named Guilherme Crabogiale Fuck. Read more…
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Willie Cauley-Stein has officially changed his name.
Willie Cauley-Stein has officially changed his name. (Despite going by the hyphenated name for years, he was born Willie Cauley.) He also changed his middle name from “Durmond” to “Trill.” Read more…
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You Won’t Believe Where MLB Top Pick Dansby Swanson Went To College
Okay, fine, of course you will. It’s obviously Vanderbilt. He looks just like a Dansby, too. Read more…
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