Best/worst names in pro sports

Fortunate:
Scott Speed (NASCAR)
Chris Moneymaker (Poker)
Josh Outman (MLB Pitcher)
Ted Power (MLB Pitcher)
Jahvid Best (NFL)
Ryan Longwell (NFL Kicker)
Usain Bolt (speed runner)

Unfortunate (for sports reasons):
Grant Balfour (MLB Pitcher)
Milton Bradley (MLB)
Bob Walk (MLB Pitcher)

Good all-around:
Razor Shines (AAA Baseball)
God Shammgod
Atari Bigby (NFL)
Buster Rhymes (NFL)
Quentin Jammer
Johnny Boychuk (NHL)
Yelberton Abraham Tittle (Welcome to Tittletown)
Fred Funk (Golf)
Greg Biffle (NASCAR)
Angel Pagan (MLB, formed the infamous "holy outfield" with Moises Alou and Ryan Church)
Chris Fuamatu-Ma'Afala (NFL - one of the many Samoan players with amazing names)

Unfortunate (for other reasons):
Ethan Faggett (MLB)
Rusty Kuntz (MLB)
Craponhso Thorpe (NFL)
Dick Butkus (NFL)
Randy Wood (NHL)
Johnny Dickshot (MLB)
Tony Suck (MLB)

Dick Trickle in the last category

"God Shammgod" is pretty much the best name ever, regardless of context

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_%C5%A0atan

Razor Shines and Quentin Jammer are the two frontrunners in "things I wish I could name my kid"

Scott Verplank, because it sounds great in a Jerry Lewis nutty-professor voice.

In the fortunate category Wolfgang Wolf former coach of German FC Wolfsburg.

D'Brickashaw Montgomery Ferguson for being an all around fucking amazing name.

Stubby Clapp, Canadian national baseball team
Bum Ho Lee, Korean national baseball team

Wolfgang Wolf sounds like a cartoon character name, but then again I suppose all these do

It does but the fact that he coached Wolfsburg just takes it to that next level. Feel like his name may have helped during the hiring process tbh.

there was a Rugby player named Threaton Polmalu, both the biggest and fastest player on the field

Dick Trickle in the last category

Well, his name is Richard Trickle and he chose to call himself Dick, so I don't know if "unfortunate" is the right word for it.

xxp yeah at that point it starts sounding like a really uncreative cartoon

Fred: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/player/_/id/98116/fred?cc=5901

Just Fred? One name?

Yup.

Ichiro!

I like just Fred because somehow the one name being "Fred" just makes it.

there is more than one Fred iirc

Brazil is a veritable feast of names

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1gner_Love
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Couto

One of my personal faves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuauht%C3%A9moc_Blanco

Big fan of Ndamukong Suh, especially since Ndamukong means "House of Spears"

I always put Coco Crisp in the same category as Milton Bradley.

There are a ton of NOTY candidates/winners in college football, notably LSU's Barkevious Mingo (whose LSU bio notes brothers named Hugh Mingo III and Hughtavious Mingo!!!), but also Wake Forest freshman Gods-Power Offor, Florida Atlantic's Yourhighness Morgan, etc.

there was a baseball player named Pussy Tebeau who, as my SI calendar pointed out, was "the worst of the Tebeau brothers"

one for the Unfortunate (for sports reasons)category: Gerard Pique

and a fortunate one: Junior Seau

Marc Rzepczynski has two of the best nicknames in baseball - "Scrabble" and "Led Rzeppelin"

Best, Nene Hilario. Even though he dropped the Hilario.

not a lotta NBA on this thread

World B. Free

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2009/12/world-b-free.jpg

speed weed & dick wolf

I always put Coco Crisp in the same category as Milton Bradley.

These guys once comprised 2/3 of the Cleveland Indians outfield. It was spectacular.

Former golfer Dick Mast.

http://shop.sportsworldcards.com/ekmps/shops/sportsworld/images/chile-waldo-ponce-624-panini-south-africa-2010-fifa-world-cup-sticker-38652-p.jpg

Rod Fanni

what about Randy Johnson, basically the same as Randy Wood

MLS experts, tell me about Bright Dike

STEELE VON HOFF