Eleven Warriors

Apparently Monteé Ball never bothered to tell everyone they were pronouncing his name wrong.  That's understandable. As an 18-year old freshman, you probably think your name means jack and the coach will call you whatever he wants.  Well, Bret BEE-lima is letting everyone know the correct pronunciation now.

It's pronounced Mon-TAY. Not Mon-TEE.

Staples article

"For the entire 2011 season, we thought a tailback named Montee (pronounced Mon-TEE) Ball scored all those points for Wisconsin. It turns out the guy invading end zones across the Big Ten is named Monteé (pronounced Mon-TAY) Ball. What's the difference?

For that, we'll turn to Steve Rushin, the chair of SI's Department of Advanced Athlete Nomenclature. In 2000, while referring to Arizona Cardinals receiver MarTay Jenkins, Rushin typed the finest sentence ever composed regarding the subject of athlete names. "The difference," Rushin wrote, "between a Marty and a MarTay, it goes without saying, is the difference between a party and a partay."

Missouri is set to join SEC East division with Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and Kentucky. This makes no sense geographically but the move was made to protect historical rivalries already established within the SEC and to maintain competitive balance. Where have I heard something similar? Oh, right. That's the reasoning behind the B1G division breakdowns. So...cue the outrage from the national media, right? "How will I ever remember Missouri is in the EAST?! They're one of the western most schools in the league!" Oh, I guess not. The media is all on board. This is the way it should be considering I could teach a 5-year old which schools are in which division in any league regardless of geography or stupid division name. You can honestly draw a line straight through B1G country and plainly see the divisional breakdown. The only one that doesn't fit is Wisconsin. Pic - http://i44.tinypic.com/i42yxc.gif And you can do this for the new SEC too.