Some of my e-mailers have been suggesting teams for my Cool-Named Team Of The Day spot that have already been featured. To keep past Cool-Named Teams in one convenient location I’ll move their entries here after a suitable time.
SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE
Location: Lakeland, FL
Division: NAIA
Conference Affiliation: The Sun Conference
Major sports: basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball, tennis, golf
Site: http://www.seuniversity.edu/athletics/
Comment: Florida teams sport some of the coolest names in the country and Southeastern University is no exception. That logo looks great as well!
POMONA PITZER COLLEGE SAGEHENS
Location: Claremont, CA
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Major sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.pe.pomona.edu/landing/index
Comment: These are no dumb clucks, these are Sagehens! (Sorry!) With this institution we get another classic example of what I consider to be the “oddball cool” of many college team nicknames.
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY
November 8, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY MUSKIES
Location: New Concord, OH
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Ohio Athletic Conference
Major sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.muskingum.edu/home/athletics/index.html
Comment: No, their mascot isn’t a crying U.S. Senator standing in falling snow, it’s the fish called Muskies. Muskingum’s nickname and logo combine to give their teams that “oddball cool” feel that I love about so many college sports teams.
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM -HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
November 1, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY SEA WARRIORS
Location: Honolulu, HI
Division: NCAA Division 2
Conference Affiliation: Pacific West Conference
Major sports: basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.goseawarriors.com/
Comment: What a terrific name for sports teams! At first glance the logo might make you think they were called the Sharks instead, but I love the shark imagery because it reminds me of one of my favorite figures in Hawaiian myth: Kamoho, the shark god. He’s the chief of the seemingly dozens of lesser shark deities in the Hawaiian Islands. Part of the fun comes from the fact that Kamoho is the older brother of Pele, the goddess of fire!
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: CONVERSE COLLEGE
October 25, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
CONVERSE COLLEGE VALKYRIES
Location: Spartanburg, SC
Division: NCAA Division 2
Conference Affiliation: Conference Carolinas
Major sports: swimming, basketball, soccer, volleyball, lacrosse, equestrian
Site: http://www.converse.edu/athletics
Comment: As we’ve seen I’m a sucker for team nicknames that combine my passion for college sports with my passion for mythology so this institution’s teams were a natural for this blog! Valkyries is one incredibly cool nickname and you can insert your own Wagner (Or Apocalypse Now) joke here.
THE 20 COOLEST-NAMED JUCO SPORTS TEAMS- http://glitternight.com/2010/10/18/the-20-coolest-named-juco-sports-teams/
THE COOLEST HELMET IN THE DAKOTA ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
August 13, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
Here’s a new feature to help all of us get in the mood for football season! I’ll be going through the NAIA and NCAA Division 3 conference by conference and looking at the coolest helmets in each.
Team: Black Hills State Yellowjackets
Site: http://www.bhsu.edu/Athletics/tabid/82/Default.aspx
Comment: “Up and at’em….Atom Ant!” The Black Hills State helmet sports one of those mascots who are so cool-looking they should have their own cartoon series!
As always, football helmets courtesy of The Helmet Project at: http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – XAVIER (LA)
October 11, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
XAVIER (LA) GOLD RUSH/GOLD NUGGETS
Location: New Orleans, LA
Conference Affiliation: Gulf Coast Athletic Conference
Major sports: basketball, tennis, volleyball, cross country
Site: http://www.xula.edu/athletics/
Comment: In the opposite of what you might think, it’s the women’s teams that are called the Gold Nuggets while the men’s teams are the Gold Rush. An interesting fact is that since 1996 the Gold Nuggets basketball team has fewer home losses than Pat Summit‘s Lady Volunteers!
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM- CARNEGIE MELLON
October 4, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY TARTANS
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: University Athletic Association
Major sports: football, basketball, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.cmu.edu/athletics/sports/index.html
Comment: “If it isn’t Scottish IT’S CRAP!” As cool as Carnegie Hall and Mellon Bank are separately, like peanut butter and jelly they just get better when combined in their respective namesakes’ university. And as a bonus here’s their incredibly cool football helmets courtesy of The Helmet Project at http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM- THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
September 27, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PANDAS
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Division: NAIA
Conference Affiliation: Canada West Universities Athletic Association
Major sports: football, basketball, ice hockey, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.bears.ualberta.ca/
Comment: Many people don’t realize some Canadian schools play various college sports in America’s lower divisions. I don’t know anybody who doesn’t like pandas unless they were traumatized by the long national nightmare we had trying to get the National Zoo’s panda bears to mate. The men’s teams at Alberta go by the name Golden Bears but since so many teams are called Golden Bears I’m going with the much cooler name the women’s teams use.
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – WEBSTER UNIVERSITY
September 20, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
WEBSTER UNIVERSITY GORLOKS
Location: St Louis, MO
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: St Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Major sports: basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.websterathletics.com/
Comment: Like the Banana Slugs, the Gorloks have gotten so much exposure for their unique nickname I didn’t include them in my original D3 20 Coolest list. Here they are at last, and if you haven’t heard, the Gorlok is a mythical creature invented in a contest at Webster U. It has the paws of a speeding cheetah, the horns of a fierce buffalo and the face of a dependable St Bernard. I would have thought the Webster mascot would have the height of Emmanuel Lewis, the stocky shoulders of Alex Karras and the wall-eyes of Susan Clark, but I’m kind of weird
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – ALVERNO COLLEGE
September 8, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
ALVERNO INFERNO
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Northern Athletics Conference
Major sports: basketball, soccer, softball, volleyball
Site: http://athletics.alverno.edu/
Comment: There is absolutely no truth to the stories that Alverno’s teams used to be called The Disco Inferno and had a character in a Saturday Night Fever outfit as a mascot. Seriously, though, this nickname is so cool it just barely missed the cut in my D3 20 Coolest List. And you can insert your own Dante’s Inferno joke here. I like this approach of having your sports teams rhyme with your institution’s name. If we apply it to other schools we’d have the Embry-Riddle Fiddles, the Sioux Falls Screwballs and the Mid-Continent Incontinents.
THE COOLEST HELMET IN THE ATLANTIC CENTRAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
September 30, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
Team: NEWPORT NEWS APPRENTICE SCHOOL BUILDERS
Location: Newport News, VA
Division: NCAA Division 3
Site: http://www.gobuilders.com/landing/index
Comment: It’s the return of the Coolest Helmet feature! NNAS has one of the most eye-catching helmets in D3. In fact when they wear their maroon jerseys and the gold pants their entire uniform looks 1A-caliber! The Builders’ motto is “We build great ships: Craftmanship … Scholarship … Leadership” If you’re wondering why, if they build great ships, they’re not called the Shipbuilders instead, well, just say it out loud a few times and you’ll see the potential minefield they’re avoiding.
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – ST MARY’S COLLEGE
August 31, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
SAINT MARYS COLLEGE BELLES
Location: Notre Dame, IN
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Major sports: basketball, soccer, softball, volleyball
Site: http://www3.saintmarys.edu/athletics
Comment: Get it? The Bells Of Saint Mary’s becomes “The Belles Of Saint Mary’s” for this female institution’s sports teams, just as it became The Bells Of Saint Berwyn in a memorable Son Of Svengoolie comedy sketch. This school should use a mascot like a woman in a Belle Of The Ball outfit kung-fu fighting her way through a line of suitors. It’s got a classical yet contemporary appeal that would ring the chimes of Belles fans everywhere!
THE COOLEST HELMETS IN THE SOUTHERN COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
November 6, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
Team: MILLSAPS MAJORS
Division: NCAA Division 3
Location: Jackson, MS
Site: http://gomajors.com/
Comment: If you can’t make it out that’s a sword going through the “M” on the helmet. I love the helmets and the name Majors is pretty cool, too, just ask Lee Majors. The Majors pretty much redefine the term “ranked team” along with those teams called the Generals, the Colonels and the Captains.
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – UC-SANTA CRUZ
August 26, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
UC-SANTA CRUZ BANANA SLUGS
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Independent
Major sports: basketball, soccer, tennis, volleyball
Site: http://www.goslugs.com/
Comment: The Banana Slugs have been the Gold Standard for unusual team nicknames for so long I even included a note in my D3 20 Coolest List saying why I was leaving them off. For all their fans who were wondering, here they are at last! And it takes more than table salt to stop THESE slugs!
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – WHITTIER COLLEGE
August 19, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
WHITTIER COLLEGE POETS
Location: Whittier, CA
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Major sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer
Site: http://www.wcpoets.com/landing/index
Comment: Remember this exchange in Aristophanes‘ comedy The Frogs - Question: What do you expect a poet to do? Answer: Why, save the nation, of course! We won’t be putting that much pressure on the Whittier teams, thankfully. It would be easy to go the cheap joke route and say something like “What’s the matter? Was the nickname The Ballet Dancers already taken?” But I actually think poets are pretty cool – just ask Francois Villon!
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM- SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE
SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE VIXENS
Location: Sweet Briar, VA
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Old Dominion Athletic Conference
Major sports: soccer, softball, volleyball, swimming, tennis, lacrosse, field hockey, horseback riding
Site: www.vixenathletics.com
Comment: As the nickname Vixens would imply this is an all-female institution. (For those who don’t know a vixen is a female fox). Really cool name for sports teams and their colors are pink and green so that’s pretty cool, too!
THE COOLEST HELMETS IN THE KANSAS COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
October 7, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
Team: TABOR COLLEGE BLUEJAYS
Division: NAIA
Site: http://www.taborbluejays.com/
Comment: Yes, as a “Confidential Source” revealed to Balladeer’s Blog back when I did the 20 Coolest College Sports Logos, Tabor has gotten rid of the boring “TC” helmets and brought back an even cooler version of the Bluejay profile helmets! These things are great looking and are guaranteed to produce additional wins all by themselves!
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – VITERBO UNIVERSITY
August 9, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
VITERBO V-HAWKS
Location: La Crosse, WI
Division: NAIA
Conference Affiliation: Midwest Collegiate Conference
Major sports: basketball, baseball, soccer
Site: http://www.viterboathletics.com/index.php
Comment: In the grand tradition of the A-Team, G-Forces and the X-Men it’s the V-Hawks, a name so cool it could be a model of sports car!
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL
August 5, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL DIPLOMATS
Location: Lancaster, PA
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Centennial Conference
Major sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer
Site: http://www.godiplomats.com/landing/index
Comment: The Diplomats (“Oh, that word”…Fans of the musical 1776 will get it.) is a pretty cool nickname for sports teams. I guess the only real downside would be people calling them “The Dips” for short. By the way, from now on I’ll be judging U.S. State Department Diplomats by whether or not they “give 110 percent” and if they “came to play”, just like I judge Franklin and Marshall Diplomats.
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – OREGON TECH
June 28, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
OREGON TECH HUSTLIN’ OWLS
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
July 2, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY CHAPARRALS
MAYVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY COMETS
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – DORDT COLLEGE
July 8, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
DORDT COLLEGE DEFENDERS
ROGERS STATE UNIVERSITY HILLCATS
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – LIFE UNIVERSITY
July 15, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
LIFE UNIVERSITY RUNNING EAGLES
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES
July 18, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY
July 26, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY CRIMSON STORM
Location: Bethany, OK
Conference Affiliation: Sooner Athletic Conference
Major sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer
Site: http://sports.snu.edu/
Comment: With all due respect to the Alabama Crimson Tide and the IUP Crimson Hawks I think Crimson Storm is one of the coolest names for a team! It would also make a great name for a band. You can just picture cd’s titled “The Greatest Hits Of Crimson Storm” or “Crimson Storm: Live In Concert” or “Crimson Storm: Feel The Scarlet Rain”etc.
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – SUNY-CANTON
August 1, 2010 by balladeer | Edit
SUNY-CANTON KANGAROOS
Location: Canton, NY
Conference Affiliation: The Sunrise Conference
Major sports: basketball, baseball, ice hockey, soccer
Site: http://www.rooathletics.com/
Comment: To cut the sports world’s equivalents of The Comic Book Guy on the Simpsons off at the pass, I’m aware that Division 1 has the UMKC Kangaroos and Division 3 has the Austin ‘Roos but this is a site for NAIA sports, comprende? The preceding is intended to cover up the fact that I couldn’t think of any kangaroo-related jokes. Doesn’t that make you hopping mad? (Sorry.)
MORE COOL STUFF
The 20 Coolest-Named USCAA and NCCAA Sports Teams – http://glitternight.com/2010/11/24/the-20-coolest-named-uscaa-and-nccaa-sports-teams/
The 20 Coolest-Named JUCO Sports Teams: http://glitternight.com/2010/10/18/the-20-coolest-named-juco-sports-teams/
For the NCAA Division 3′s Coolest-Named Teams click here: http://glitternight.com/d3-20-coolest/
For the NAIA edition of The 20 Coolest College Sports Teams You May Never Have Heard Of click here: http://glitternight.com/2010/06/21/the-20-coolest-named-college-sports-teams-you-may-have-never-heard-of-naia-edition/
For The 20 Coolest College Sports Logos click here: http://glitternight.com/2010/07/20/the-20-coolest-college-sports-logos/
For The 20 Coolest Football Helmets In NCAA Division 3 click here: http://glitternight.com/2010/08/23/the-20-coolest-football-helmets-in-ncaa-division-3/
For the 20 Coolest-Named Sports Teams In NCAA Division 2 click here: http://glitternight.com/d2-20-coolest/
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