US Team Is Losing World Cup Name Game

(June 26) -- The United States men's national team has surprised the world with its clutch World Cup play. But there's one soccer contest the U.S. team has already lost: the name game. While other World Cup clubs are known to fans by beloved nicknames like England's Three Lions, the Ivory Coast's Elephants, and South Korea's Taeguk Warriors, the U.S. national team goes by a handful of unofficial and half-baked monikers, like The Yanks, The Nats, The Amerks and, worst of all, the abbreviation USM...

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