Quiz Guy John Chaneski tees up a trivia quiz about how sports teams got their names. For example, are the Cleveland Browns so named because one of their founders was named Paul Brown, or because of the orange-brown clay on the banks of the Cuyahoga...
Grant and Martha discuss strange names for high school sports teams. Know another example? Talk about it in the forum. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Strange Mascot Names” You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Martha Barnette...
soap scrimmage n. especially in non-professional American football, a practice game for which the cost of admittance is a bar of bath soap. Also soap game. Editorial Note: Other items needed by a sports team are sometimes substituted as the price of...
wags n.pl. the wives and girlfriends of an all-male sports team. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
lose the dressing room v. of a sports team manager or coach, to not have the respect of the players. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
