John J. Miller on The Corner. It’s short so I’ll quote in toto:
I’ve always had some fondness for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens because their team name is a literary reference. Last weekend, while visiting the in-laws in South Carolina, I went to an NCAA baseball game featuring the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers. Literary references in team names don’t get much better than that.
Closer to home, I’ve always scratched my head over Baptist or Methodist schools that name their mascots after demonic anything. I make an exception for the Liberty University Flames — they’re reading from a different piece of Literature, so maybe that puts them in the spirit of Miller’s post.