Popular Animal Mascots

Yahoo! Sports: Are live animals as college football mascots on their way out? A history of the practice

Are live animals as college football mascots on their way out? A history of the practice

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Las Vegas Sun: From Ralphie to Uga, live animal mascots inspire fans and create deep connections with their teams

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From Ralphie to Uga, live animal mascots inspire fans and create deep connections with their teams

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Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Meet Napa buses’ newly named animal mascots: Ollie, Poppy, Mari and Talon

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Meet Napa buses’ newly named animal mascots: Ollie, Poppy, Mari and Talon

If you’ve watched sports on even a casual basis, you’ve likely noticed a trend when it comes to the team names and mascots. Many sports mascots are wild animals, and sometimes endangered ones. It’s ...

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And for the first time since 1990, the tables also list the most popular first names by race and Hispanic origin and by sex — showing less variety among the most popular men’s first names than women’s names. As a result, eight of the top 10 most-used first names in the United States were traditionally male.

On August 11–12, 1939, the movie The Wizard of Oz premiered in Dennis, MA, Kenosha, WI, and Oconomowoc, WI. Fearing the film would be unpopular, movie studio executives chose these cities to debut the movie to better gauge audience reaction. Much to their delight, the film was a hit as moviegoers packed theaters. On August 15, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios hosted a star-studded, "official ...