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The Richmond Spiders, known in the world of college basketball as the first-ever 15-seed to win an NCAA tournament game (in 1990, over 2-seeded Syracuse), will take to European courts this summer in uniforms featuring the French word for spiders, “Araignées.” Very cool: Richmond Spiders playing in France this summer,
The University of Richmond’s athletic teams have been nicknamed the Spiders since 1894, when a Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper reporter named Ragland Chesterman made an observation that would have a long-lasting impact. “There was a star pitcher named Puss Ellyson, and they said his lanky arms and stretching kick confused batters,” said Jana
The town of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, sits at the southern tip of Lake Winnebago—its name, translated from French, means “bottom of the lake.” (Lake Winnebago, I was sad to realize as I started writing this article, is not to be confused with New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, where the movie
When the Fond du Lack Dock Spiders, a collegiate summer league team that plays at the southern tip of Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago, debuted in 2017, there was a lot of chatter about their arachnid-based logo. As a Richmond Spider myself, I was of course charmed. But before they debuted, when
