Around Town: Chicago Sky community event tomorrow
Everyone's favorite WNBA team, the Chicago Sky, is donating 500 books to Benito Juarez High School in Pilsen tomorrow. Sky players Brooke Wyckoff (right) and Amanda Lassiter (second from left) will be there having a discussion with the students about "Pride & Prejudice" of which they are getting 100 copies.The NBA is doing similar programs including one with some guy named Dwyane Wade that got a good reaction from the kiddies.
In other Sky news, the team is sponsoring a food drive to benefit WINGS, a non-profit organization that provides housing and emergency shelter to women and children in need.
Non-perishable food donations are being accepted at the Sky's downtown offices at 20 W. Kinzie until the 20th. Do something nice for once, would you? 'Tis the season after all.
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posted by Hecklerazzi at 2:17 PM
3 Comments:
those blondes are kinda hot.
I've had a long-standing opinion on latter day "singular" sports team names, such as the Chicago Sky, and now seems as good a time as any to finally express it.
The singular team name is just not proper. The only cases where I find it acceptable are the borderline examples Red Sox and White Sox, but even those names are plural; they just don't end in "s." The Utah Jazz, however, are guilty on two counts. The second "z" doesn't count as an "s," and New Orleans, the original home of the Jazz, is synonymous with jazz music; Utah is synonymous with salt and the Osmonds. The "Utah Osmonds" would be an appropriate name for the team as long as the Osmond family signs off on the idea, or buys the team.
A singular team name is inappropriate, because it showcases the name and undermines the players, who should really be the ones trying to make a name for the team in the old-fashioned way: by winning.
The Chicago Sky is actually a great sample under which to bear my rant, because they apparently lose more frequently than did the 2003 Detroit Tigers, a team that at least has a great and traditional plural name.
The Colorado Avalanche, I believe, started the singular sports team name trend. Which reminds me - isn't "Avalanche," as the name of a sports team, politically incorrect? Don't avalanches kill people? I'm not trying to be funny by making this observation. The old Baltimore/Washington Bullets basketball team was forced to change its name, because D.C. had the highest murder rate, especially through the reckless use of handguns, in the country.
Barring the unlikely introduction of an altogether new name, perhaps the hockey team should be known as the "Colorado Avalanches" (plural)? I know, I know...it sounds almost as stupid as Colorado Avalanche.
No harm intended towards the Chicago Sky, though. It's just the name that draws my ire. May you bring home a winner in the near future.
Rob C. Christiansen
now I stay in touch!
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