That got me started thinking about sports-team names. There are an amazing variety of them, especially if you include defunct teams and teams outside of the major leagues, from minor leagues down to kid leagues. The Buccaneers, the Cavaliers, the Mavericks. The Monarchs, the Kings, the Giants, the Titans, the Wizards, the Mystics. The Devil Rays.
Life imitates art, or at least movies.
The Sand Gnats. And of course the nickname Black Sox. I'm intrigued by the recent spate of team names, especially in the WNBA, that appear to be singular rather than plural. The Tampa Bay Lightning, the Colorado Avalanche, the Minnesota Wild, the Miami Heat, the Orlando Magic, the Utah Jazz, the Charlotte Sting, the Detroit Shock, the New York Liberty, the Phoenix Mercury, the Orlando Miracle. Major-league baseball has thus far eschewed this silliness, but in the minor leagues there's the Madison Black Wolf.