But Denver moved up, of course, in the tanking rankings.

The Nuggets lost to a terrible Philadelphia team on Wednesday.

A lot of people don’t remember this or know this, but John Calipari actually coached in the NBA before.

In the spirit of March Madness, here’s a cool look at ” The Baby-Faced Assassin,” Davidson’s Stephen Curry.

This guy’s name would literally be a circle around his jersey number. One wonders when we’ll ever see sports’ first union of hyphenated names, such as if the daughter of Willie Cauley-Stein married the son of Pops Mensah-Bonsu, and then had a son named after dad’s favorite Kentucky teammate of all-time: Karl-Anthony Cauley-Stein-Mensah-Bonsu. Judy Mitchellson Hicks - sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without. Perkins: “She spent the last three months writing down her married name. Ever since she got engaged, my life has been a disaster.”īoss: “You know, she came so highly recommended.” I’m not getting any of my mail, nothing has been filed. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the resplendently named Boutros Boutros-Ghali.Īnd in the movie “Big,” featuring Tom Hanks, there’s the scene when Elizabeth Perkins crabs to her boss about her soon-to-be hyphenated personal assistant.

The hyphen has an omnipresent presence in pop culture and politics, be it Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Julia Louis-Dreyfus to U.N. As my unhyphenated wife, who uses her maiden name for basketball, explained, ‘My teammate Taj McWilliams-Franklin took the only dash that the embroiderers allocated to the Sun.'” “Except that I didn’t get my name on the back of a Connecticut Sun uniform. “We are the unsung Schuman in Stacey Dales-Schuman, the anonymous Taylor in Charlotte Smith-Taylor,” Rushin once wrote. In Sweet 16, believe the hype … and the hyphen – The Denver Post Close MenuĪnd hyphens are staples in the WNBA, as explained by my idol Steve Rushin, the Sports Illustrated scribe who married Rebecca Lobo.

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