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Question everybody; Do you feel that athletes  just don’t have nicknames like they used too?  I mean for the most part nickmanes are boring and unimaginative, a sea of T-Macs and A-Rods that seems to differ greatly from a past list that includes such classics as Cy, Schoolboy and Babe.  Even in the  world outside of sports you have your J-Los, Li-Lo (Lindsey Lohan) and Brit-Brit.  What happen to the creativity??  When a player did something outstanding and they were then given a name from that? 

Still, I’m happy to say that nicknames are not dead. There are some bad ones out there today, of course, but over the last twenty years we have seen some great ones too, ones that truly capture that particular player’s impact on his chosen sport.  Here is a list of BC’s Top 20 nicknames in sports. 

20. Hibachi (Gilbert Arenas)

19. Iron (Mike Tyson)

18. White Shoes (Billy Johnson)

17. Broadway (Joe Namath)

16. The Glide (

15. The Georgia Peach (Ty Cobb)

14. Hammerin (Henry Aaron)

13. Mr. October (Reggie Jackson)

12. PrimeTime (Deion Sanders)

11. Round Mound of Rebound (Charles Barkley)

10. Sweetness (Walter Payton)

9.  The Great One (Wayne Gretzky)

8.  The Nigerian Nightmare (Christian Okoye)

7.  The Answer (Allen Iverson)

6.  Air (Michael Jordan)

5.  Superman/Diesel/Shaq/The Big Aristotle (Shaquille O’Neal) 

4.  Black Mamba (

3.  The Bus (Jerome Bettis)

2.  The Human Highlight Film (Dominique Wilkins)

1.  Magic (Earvin Johnson)