South Carolina Stingrays, ECHL hockey team since 1994
Its called being afraid of stingrays.
i think a College Sports team was called the cornhuskers. it is the only nickname derived from a sports team.
Stingrays are usually solitary creatures. Though sometimes they will swim in the groups. A group of stingrays is called a school.
Sheffield United were the first team to be called "united"
A host. In sports, the host team is called the "home team".
leptocercal
There is no such team as the Cornish Pirates. There is a professional sports team called the Raiders that have pirates as mascots to symbolize the team. However, there is no such professional sports team called the Cornish Pirates. Cornish is a kind of hen raised on farms so the correlation of the two terms is incompatible.
The NZ rowing team are called the 'Black Singlets'
it is called 'a fever'
It is referred to as a 'fever'.
Notre Dame
Fever