A Thorn By Any Other Name Would Prick As Painfully

Is it too much to ask people who talk about sports for a living to know the names of colleges that field teams?

The basketball phenomenon in Spokane is Gon-zag-a, not Gon-zog-a. Did you not get the hint from their nickname? They're not the Zogs, ya know.

The Catholic school from Cincinnati is pronounced Zavier, not Ecks-avier. (By the way moms and dads, if you name your son Xavier, you've given him a name that exists, and that name is pronounced Zavier.)

The national champs in football represented Clem-son, not Clemz-on.

(The broadcast partners are always good about this, so thank you CBS, TBS and friends.) 


And so on. Coastal Carolina is moving up its football program to Division 1A. So you're all going to have to learn how to say Chanticleers.