ESPN calls us Warriors in recap article title

[foreverwarriors]

Checked the recap right after the game - title read "Johnson steps up, Orange escape Warriors despite Rautins' failure to score"

they must have caught it, because it has since been changed to Golden Eagles

[gumbyandpokey]

Checked the recap right after the game - title read "Johnson steps up, Orange escape Warriors despite Rautins' failure to score"

they must have caught it, because it has since been changed to Golden Eagles

Too bad ESPN changed it.  MU will always be the Warriors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mileskishnish72]

My favorite was Keith Jackson - I think it was during the DWade ere - getting excited and saying on the telecast something like "That's six in a row for the Warriors!"
Someone must have whispered in his earpiece about the name change, but he couldn't help himself - a few minutes later, there was another surge by MU and Jackson said something like "and that's 11 unanswered points by the Golden Warriors!"

[TT13]

When Keith Jackson do a college basketball game during the Wade era?

[muhoops1]

never.  maybe he said it during a USC football game.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Marquette Warriors was as strong a brand as Indiana Hoosiers or UCLA Bruins. It's beyond tragic that these fools continue to live with the asinine decision by DiUlio to change our name to something to vanilla and, frankly, feminine.

It's shocking that the liberals in San Francisco can live with the Golden State Warriors in this age of political correctness. They must have changed their logo or something.

[Benny B]

Most national writers with "street cred" (i.e. those who have been around since the 70s and 80s or those who at least have an appreciation for college basketball history and tradition) have referred to MU as the Warriors on many an occasion since the travesty.  I've noticed a slight uptick in the Warrior references since MU's entry into the BE, but maybe that's more to do with the fact that they've been getting more national coverage since then.

It seems to me most of the TV announcers who call MU the Warriors do so deliberately and perhaps with intent.  At least it's not just the MU crowd that recognizes MU's storied past and refuses the bird.

[GGGG]

I always have...and always will...continue to refer to them as Warriors.