Names

There was 1:09 left on the clock when Eli Manning, under pressure from the New England Patriots defense, hurled the…

Well, we can’t say we’re surprised.

Oh, friends. It’s here. The day we’ve been waiting for; the first true sign of spring. The Western Hockey League…

In 1985, Belgian psychologist Jozef Nuttin published a landmark study in which he revealed that people have a…

Each March, we present the Name of the Year bracket to you in the neatest fashion we can muster. The seeding choices…

With plenty of real estate remaining in 2019, it’s masochistic to imagine what next year could look like. Emperor…

Last August, the NCAA unveiled the NET ranking, a comprehensive synthesis of numbers designed to supplant the…

There are some people who follow college baseball because a publication or faintly queasy-making subscription-only…

On an auspicious day for names, the Western Hockey League held its draft for 14- and 15-year-old players. As in past…

Here at NOTY, it’s axiomatic that a truly great name has it going both ways. Just look at the Hall of Name: Assumptio…

For one of the two men who have made it to this year’s Name of the Year final, destiny awaits.

To all of you who have shouted at us on Twitter, through our email address, and in my Gchat windows: Yes, we know,…

For all the things that he has gotten wrong in his career as a mythmaker and world-builder and filmmaker and …

Much is made of the fact that baseball’s history makes the sport so rich in numbers—a statistic to back up every…

Steve Smith Sr. was one of the best receivers of his generation. In a long, illustrious career for both the Panthers…

Michael Lananna does an excellent job of covering college baseball for Baseball America. He did a particularly…

Congratulations to junior tennis players Zion Heaven and Hunter Heck, semifinalists at the Copa Badia.

Last month, the voting public selected Boats Botes as the 2017 Name of the Year. Congratulations, voting public, on…