There's a French cyclist named Pierre Latour. Everything about it is so French. He's even on a French team. It's a total "hon, hon, hon" situation. Every time I see his name come up when watching cycling I think about the baseball video game; it just sounds like a name someone would make up to make fun of cycling... which... fair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Latour

There's a sumo wrestler who goes by Moriurara who's been wrestling professionally, albeit at a very low level, for 21 years. He initially wrestled as Morikawa, but after losing 38 straight tournaments since his professional debut, someone came up with the nickname Moriurara for him by combining Morikawa's name with that of Haru Urara, a Japanese racehorse who had become famous for never winning. Savagely, this stuck and became his ring name, and of course, dude couldn't even be a screw-up correctly because right after the name change, he finally achieved his first tournament victory (in sumo, this just means you win more matches than you lose - not that you're necessarily undefeated). Luckily, he didn't win a single bout in the next tournament and is currently on a 28-tournament losing streak. He's also a uniquely unkempt looking guy in a sport that values hygiene and supposedly the reason he's still wrestling is because he faces homelessness otherwise. Wacky sport.

Fucking brilliant.
Gout Gout, for fucks sake.

The Pirates recently acquired outfielder Jhostynxon Garcia.

His nickname? The Password.

Ever since the OG version of this thread I've been collecting images of these on my phone.
Among them:

60s NFL center Buzz Nutter

itinerant 60s/70s NFL quarterback Dick Shiner

recently retired Texas Women's University softball coach Gay McNutt

USC wide receiver Boobie Feaster

Carl wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 3:26 pm The Pirates recently acquired outfielder Jhostynxon Garcia.

His nickname? The Password.

Arber Xhekaj (pronounced jack-eye) of the Montreal Canadiens is called "Wifi" and he's the first NHL player with a surname starting with X.

Bol Bol
Stylez G. White
Meta World Peace

BenJarvus Green-Ellis, "The Law Firm."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BenJarvus_Green-Ellis

Nephew of Birdman, too.

Dude Person

https://www.espn.com/college-football/p ... ude-person

joe_lmr wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 7:50 pm

Carl wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 3:26 pm The Pirates recently acquired outfielder Jhostynxon Garcia.

His nickname? The Password.

Arber Xhekaj (pronounced jack-eye) of the Montreal Canadiens is called "Wifi" and he's the first NHL player with a surname starting with X.

The Canadiens also employ Arber's brother Florian Xhekaj.