Category Archives: Cool names and cool logos

July 18, 2010 · 2:43 pm

TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES

SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY HARDROCKERS

Conference Affiliation: Dakota Athletic Conference

Comment: You know sports teams must be good when they have so many Cafes named after them! (Just be glad I didn’t go with the “Hardrock, Coco and Joe” reference I originally had planned.) What I really want to know is if their marching band does a rendition of Sixteen Ton.

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Dakota League dwindling in NAIA (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
First Meeting of South Dakota Tea Party Alliance (dakotavoice.com)
South Dakota Tea Party Summit (dakotavoice.com)
Summit League to consider UND for membership (dailycaller.com)

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July 17, 2010 · 12:52 am

THE WINNER OF THE “COOLEST-NAMED SPORTS TEAMS” CONTEST – THE USAO DROVERS!

Well the votes are all tallied and the most votes for coolest team nickname went to the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Drovers! If I had to coin a quick phrase to capture the allure of the Drover mascot it would be Drovers: The 21st Century Name For Cowboys! As always there’s no need to thank me for these impromptu slogans, just shower me with cash. And you can visit the Drovers athletic site at : http://www.usao.edu/usao-sports/

As the Drovers gallop their way into the Winner’s Circle let’s take a look at the runners up:

In second place were the Ave Maria University Gyrenes and playing on their nickname’s Marine Corps origins I previously came up with a pithy slogan for them, too: Want to compete? Join the Gyrenes!

Their athletics website is: http://www.amuathletics.com/

Third place went to the Bethany College Swedes who in the past few weeks launched a furious “Get out the vote” drive and were only a few votes behind the Gyrenes for second place. Since I don’t have a slogan for the Swedes I’ll go with a cool fact one reader passed along: Under Bethany College football coach Bennie Owen the Swedes defeated the Oklahoma Sooners in 1903 AND 1904! For the Swedes athletics site go here: http://www.bethanyswedes.com/

And in descending order, the placement of the remaining teams from my Top 20 List.

4. Columbia College Fighting Koalas

5. Evergreen State Geoducks

6. Nebraska Wesleyan Prairie Wolves

7. Montana Tech Orediggers

8. Fresno Pacific Sunbirds

9. Indiana University Southeast Grenadiers

10. Cal Maritime Keelhaulers

11. Point Loma Nazarene Sea Lions

12. Brewton Parker Barons

13. Southwestern College Mound Builders

14. St. Louis College Of Pharmacy Eutectics

15. Trinity Christian Trolls

16. South Carolina-Beaufort Sand Sharks

17. Saint Ambrose Fighting Bees

18. Jamestown College Jimmies

19. UTB-TSC Scorpions

20. Virginia Intermont Cobras

And even though they weren’t on the Top 20 ballot the Rogers State University Hillcats received 4 write-in votes.

Well, it’s been a fun contest! Thanks once again to everyone who voted. Reaction to the Top 20 list and to Balladeer’s Blog in general has been far beyond anything I expected. The administration, students and alumni of these NAIA schools have been great.

I’ll be launching another Top 20 list in a different category soon and if it gets the same response the first one did I’ll open up that one for your votes, too.

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USAO on US News & World Report’s “Best Valued” College List (oklahomawomen.blogspot.com)
Oklahoma Sooners Season Hinges on O-Line Success (bleacherreport.com)

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July 15, 2010 · 1:29 am

TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – LIFE UNIVERSITY

LIFE UNIVERSITY RUNNING EAGLES

Location: Marietta, GA

Conference Affiliation: Association of Independent Institutions

Major sports: basketball, rugby (technically rugby is club-level, but Life takes rugby to the Nth Degree)

Site: http://www.liferunningeagles.com/

Comment: I guess after rejecting names like “flying turtles” and “swimming kitty cats” as being too odd-sounding common sense prevailed and the good people at Life decided on the nickname Running Eagles for their sports teams.

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USA Rugby Announces Conference Alignments for New Collegiate Competition (bleacherreport.com)
Christian College in Oregon will add Women’s Lacrosse to NCAA Division III Intercollegiate Sports Offerings (prweb.com)
Rugby: As Women’s World Cup Starts, the Spotlight Shifts (nytimes.com)

TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – ROGERS STATE

ROGERS STATE UNIVERSITY HILLCATS

Location: Claremore, OK

Conference Affiliation: Sooner Athletic Conference

Major sports: basketball, baseball, soccer

Site: http://rsuhillcats.com/index.asp

Comment: I’ll bet everyone affiliated with this university wishes they had back all the moments from their life spent explaining “No, it’s HILL-cats, not hellcats”! Just to really confuse people the Rogers State University marching band should start doing a rendition of the theme song from the bad biker movie Hellcats. (bad movie buffs will get it)

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NFL Preview-Palooza! Who Are The 10 Most Annoying Humans In Pro Football? (sbnation.com)

TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – DORDT COLLEGE

DORDT COLLEGE DEFENDERS

Location: Sioux Center, IA

Conference Affiliation: Great Plains Athletic Conference

Major sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer

Site: http://www.dordt.edu/athletics/

Comment: Gee, do you think the X-Men and the Fantastic Four ever get jealous that the Defenders have sports teams named after them? (Marvel Comics geeks will get it)

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Christian College in Oregon will add Women’s Lacrosse to NCAA Division III Intercollegiate Sports Offerings (prweb.com)
You: The Mountain West Doing What it can for BCS Bid (sportsviews.com)

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July 5, 2010 · 3:02 am

TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – MAYVILLE STATE

MAYVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY COMETS

Location: Mayville, ND

Conference Affiliation: Dakota Athletic Conference

Major sports: football, basketball, baseball

Site: http://www.masu.nodak.edu/athletics/index.cfm

Comment: After indulging myself with a High Chaparral joke with LCU earlier this month I’ll refrain from making either a groan-inducing Bill Haley OR Hale-Bopp reference and just ask you which Comets football helmet you think is cooler -the old-school one on the left or their latest one on the right.

As usual you can contact me with your opinion at Thtcom15@aol.com

Football helmets courtesy of The Helmet Project at http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/

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Dan LeBatard on Jay Mariotti: “The vitriolic reaction to Mariotti’s misery frightened me.” (thebiglead.com)

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July 2, 2010 · 1:01 am

TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY CHAPARRALS

Location: Lubbock, TX (Well, d’uh!)

Conference Affiliation: Sooner Athletic Conference

Major sports: basketball, baseball, soccer

Site: http://www.lcuchaps.com/

Comment: This school’s teams have got a butt-kicking nickname, a butt-kicking logo and I’ll let you go ahead and insert your own High Chaparral joke here. Bonus points for the best use of Blue Boy‘s wimpiness in your wisecrack. And remember to vote for your favorite cool-named sports team by July 16th here: https://glitternight.com/2010/06/21/the-20-coolest-named-college-sports-teams-you-may-have-never-heard-of-naia-edition/

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