i think a College Sports team was called the cornhuskers. it is the only nickname derived from a sports team.
Sheffield United were the first team to be called "united"
A host. In sports, the host team is called the "home team".
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'
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Notre Dame
South Carolina Stingrays, ECHL hockey team since 1994
Generally, a supporter of any sports team is called a fan.
A college team out of the MAC called the Akron Zips
A match in sports is usually called a game, in which a single or group of players try to win on a team or individually.
The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team.