OK, now for something completely different!  To take a break from all the news, articles, lists and profiles, I decided to create a game.

The goal of the game is to come up with a fastpitch softball-related word beginning with each letter of the alphabet and do it off the top of your head! 

The rules are simple:

You can reference anything dealing with club, high school, college, pro or national team ball and events as long as you don’t look them up!

Your task is to come up with ONE name for each letter; I did the following list three-deep and did all of them off the top of my head except for the letters “X, Y and Z.” To be neutral in my case, I didn’t use college coach names (“Candrea”) or university names (“Yale”) which made it much harder.

Note that for most letters there are many, many answers—the ones on my list just popped into my head first and don’t mean I favor one organization over the other.

Finally, e-mail me (brentt@studentsports.com) what you have that’s different from mine and I’ll create a Master A-Z list… again just for fun!

Now… go!!!

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A: ASA, Aces, Athletics (So Cal)

B: Beverly Bandits, Bownet, Birmingham Thunderbolts

C: Corona Angels, Craig Cress, Choppers (So Cal)

D: Demarini, Diamond9, Denio (Bret)

E: Explosion, East Cobb Bullets, Enquist (Sue)

F: Firecrackers, Finch (Jennie), Finesse

G: Grapettes, Gluv, Gold Coast Hurricanes

H: Haning (Gary), Hay (Dan), Houston Power

I: Illinois Chill, Impact Gold, Indiana Magic

J: Jersey Intensity, Jen Schro Catching, Jersey Inferno

K: King (Dave), KC Peppers, KG Hitters

L: Louisville Slugger, Lady Lightning, Lil Rebels

M: Mizuno, Mendoza (Jessica), Meyers (Elana)

N: National Pro Fastpitch, (NPF), New Mexico Sundancers, NW Bullets

O: OC Batbusters, OnDeck Softball, Ohio Outlaws

P: PGF, Pitching Academy, Power Surge

Q: Quarles (Shawn), Quinn (Gerry), Qualifiers

R: Rico (Tony), Richardson (Bruce), Rhode Island Thunder

S: Student Sports Softball (duh!), Stith (Mike), Scout Softball

T: Triple Crown, Team NJ Classic, Texas Glory

U: USA Softball, USSSA, USA Athletics

V: Vienna Stars, Virginia Legends, Victory USAs

W: Wichita Mustangs, Worth, Windermere Wildfire

X: Xenos, X-Factor, X-treme Fastpitch

Y: Young Guns, youth ball, Yard Sharks

Z: Zephyrs, Zoom into June, Z Core (Easton)