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Basketball. "Ack-Ack" = Tom Heinsohn, American forward-center [4] "Action Jackson" = Mark Jackson, American point guard [5] "The Admiral" = David Robinson, American center [6] "A.I." = Allen Iverson, American shooting guard [7] "Air Jordan" = Michael Jordan, American shooting guard.
This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada. Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases , slogans , sobriquets , and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
NBC Sports Boston. ^ a b c Mazziotti, Tony (11 October 2017). "Columbus Blue Jackets: Nicknames to Know for This Season". Union and Blue. ^ a b c Ward, Allison (18 Dec 2017). "Blue Jackets' folksy nicknames part of hockey culture". The Columbus Dispatch. Archived from the original on 4 November 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
3-time Western Canada Hockey League scoring champion (1922–26); 2-time Stanley Cup champion (1928, 1933) with the New York Rangers [82] 1955: Myrtle Cook: Athletics: Athlete: A member of the 'Matchless Six', Canada's first women's Olympic track team. Won the gold medal for the 4 × 100 m relay in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. [36] 2013: Murray ...
The history of Canadian sports falls into five stages of development: early recreational activities before 1840; the start of organized competition, 1840–1880; the emergence of national organizations, 1882–1914; the rapid growth of both amateur and professional sports, 1914 to 1960; and developments of the last half-century. [1]
Rich Harden. Blake Hawksworth. Ferguson Jenkins, 3x MLB All Star, first Canadian to gain election to National Baseball Hall of Fame (1991) [1] George Kottaras. Pete Laforest. Joseph Lannin, owner of the Boston Red Sox who signed Babe Ruth. Brett Lawrie (born 1990) Adam Loewen. Russell Martin, 4x All Star.
The Commonwealth Games Foundation of Canada (CGFC) is a body within CSC, established in 1982 with an aim to raise the funds required to send the Canadian delegation—athletes and officials—to the Commonwealth Games. [8] Former president of the Hudson's Bay Company George Heller is the incumbent president of the CGFC, who was also the ...
Nicknames in association football (21 P) B. Nicknames in baseball (1 C, 55 P) ... List of college nickname changes in the United States;