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What's in a nickname?
Sports nicknames, a once grand convention of American sportswriting, have been downgraded to mere abbreviations or nonsensical appropriations. How long until China passes us up on this one, too?
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By Randy S. Robbins
Oct 30, 2011
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The Baltimore Sun
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Sports nicknames, a once grand convention of American sportswriting, have been downgraded to mere abbreviations or nonsensical appropriations. How long until China passes us up on this one, too?