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Location: Inverness, Scotland

I'm a Brit/Yank who has now settling back in Scotland with wife Tracy after living in New Zealand and traveling in Australia for a couple of years. Having contributed random thoughts on life in the Antipodes I now blog some impressions of returning to my native Scotland after 22 years away, and also document my marathon training to keep myself motivated. I post pictures at www.timcooke.com which also help to tell the story of our travels.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Team Nicknames

Most sports teams these days have nicknames, whether long used or invented to go along with pretty coloured pyjamas (yes I mean you English cricket). New Zealand however has taken the naming of its teams to new levels without departing far from the theme of the classic rugby "All Blacks":

Football (soccer) - All Whites
Basketball - Tall Blacks
Cricket - Black Caps
(Field) Hockey - Black Sticks
Netball - Silver Ferns (which might seem novel... except the silver fern is the non-black bit of the All Blacks all black rugby shirt).
Softball - Black Sox
Women's Rugby - Black Ferns

I'm sure there are a few more...

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