How did AP Indy get his name?  What does the AP stand for?
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I'm not sure that he is named after anything.  I guess the owners just choose the name AP Indy.  As far as I know the AP doesn't stand for anything.\n\nI've seen him in the flesh at Lanes End Farm though, and he is a gorgeous horse.
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no he was a portsmouth player\n\n\nthats all i know about the name
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Pretender.\n\nAs much as they would be a great story to win it all after the adversity they faced.  They just aren't as good as Chicago or Indy.
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I CAN'T WAIT. College basketball and college/NFL football are the only sports I get excited over. I gave my 1st son the middle name Peyton after Peyton Manning and my 2nd son the middle name Xavier after Xavier College. My husband wanted different names. I'm a dedicated fan.
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Here is a quoted definition of the phrase I got from medterms.com:\n\n"It is usually said that Adam's apple takes its name from the biblical story about Adam, Eve. the serpent and the apple. A piece of the forbidden fruit stuck in Adam's throat and created the anatomic Adam's apple. So the story goes. However, it may be wrong.\n\nAdam's apple in Latin is "pomum Adami." This may have been a mistranslation of the Hebrew "tappuach ha adam" which also means male bump. Between Latin and English there's many a slip."\n\nHope this helps!
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AP is the official poll.  They are the ones who ultimately decide MVP, etc.
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No he jus chose that name for his rap career.
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It's a tough question, and at first I was quickly like "duh Harrison is better."\nBut Indy has a tough schedule, plus Reggie Wayne is getting a LOT of the attention in the passing game, regardless of whether Harrison is a Hall of Famer or not.\nBurress doesn't have much else to compete with, besides TE Shockey. What, Toomer, Carter, and is Moss even playing?
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Here is a bit of history on that very subject.....I'm a HOOSIER born and raised.  Keep trying to leave this state, but think I am stuck here for life!!!\n\nThe Word Hoosier \n\nby \n\nJeffrey Graf \nReference Department \nIndiana University Libraries, Bloomington \n\n\n\n      Like barnacles, a thick crust of speculation has gathered over the word "Hoosier" to explain the origin of Indiana's nickname. The popular theories, diligently and often sincerely advanced, form a rich, often amusing body of folklore. Those theories include: "Who's here?" as a question to unknown visitors or to the inhabitants of a country cabin; Hussar, from the fiery European mounted troops; "Huzzah!" proclaimed after victory in a fight; Husher, a brawny man, capable of stilling his opponents; Hoosa, an Indian word for corn; Hoose, an English term for a disease of cattle which gives the animals a wild sort of look; and the evergreen "Who's ear?" asked while toeing a torn-off ear lying on the bar room floor the morning after a brawl. \n\n      The best evidence, however, suggests that "Hoosier" was a term of contempt and opprobrium common in the upland South and used to denote a rustic, a bumpkin, a countryman, a roughneck, a hick or an awkward, uncouth or unskilled fellow. Although the word's derogatory meaning has faded, it can still be heard in its original sense, albeit less frequently than its cousins "Cracker" and "Redneck." \n\n      From the South "Hoosier" moved north and westward with the people into the Ohio Valley, where it was applied at first to the presumably unsophisticated inhabitants of Southern Indiana. Later it expanded to include all residents of the state and gradually lost its original, potent connotation of coarseness in manners, appearance, and intellect. \n      As for the word itself, it probably derives from the Saxon word "hoo" meaning promontory or cliff or ridge or rise or hill. Jacob Piatt Dunn, the finest scholar of the word, believes a Saxon beginning, and such a meaning survives in various place names in England. There is some sense in the notion, too, that those who applied the insult and those to whom it was applied (and who understood it) came primarily from British stock. \n\n      The unusual (ier or sier) ending has always been difficult to explain. Might it be from "scir" the old form of "shire?" The Hoo Shire would then be the Hill Country, the High Places or the Mountain Region. Would that meaning then extend to those who lived in the hills, making them the "hooscirs" and later the "Hoosiers," the mountain people, hillbillies by another name? \n\n\n\n\nSpeculation begins \n\n\n      Speculation about the origin of the word Hoosier as a nickname for residents of Indiana began in print as early as 1833. In that year the Indiana Democrat of October 26, 1833 reprinted an article from the Cincinnati Republican: \n\n\nHOOSHIER \n\n\n\nThe appellation of Hooshier has been used in many of the Western States, for several years, to designate, in a good natural way, an inhabitant of our sister state of Indiana. Ex- Governor Ray has lately started a newspaper in Indiana, which he names "The Hoshier" [sic]. Many of our ingenious native philologists have attempted, though very unsatisfactorily, to explain this somewhat singular term. Mordecai M. Noah, in the late number of his Evening Star, undertakes to account for it upon the faith of a rather apocryphal story of a recruiting officer, who was engaged during the last war, in enlisting a company of HUSSARS, whom by mistake he unfortunately denominated Hooshiers. Another etymologist tells us that when the state of Indiana was being surveyed, the surveyors, on finding the residence of a squatter, would exclaim "Who's here ," -- that this exclamation, abbreviated to Hoosier was, in process of time, applied
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His name is pronounced "Ah -gwire" and not "Ah-gear re", which is the Spanish pronounciation. He is African-American as far as I remember. He is also my all time fav player, esp. when he played in Dallas.
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The Official Athletic Site for the University of Notre Dame , member of the Official College Sports Network. The most comprehensive coverage of College Athletics on the internet. ... Wireless. Chris Thomas. Class: Senior. Hometown: Indianapolis, IN ... of four children...full name is Christopher Ryan Thomas...son of Frank and Tammy Thomas...born 10-3-82 in Indianapoli\nhttp://und.collegesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/thomas_chris00.html
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my brother loves the game and he just had to tell me this long life story about him. about how he got a butterfly to end the fued between him and 50 cent; then got it covered with a horseman to represent his sports team hed just bought. he then got the LA sign, and hes from compton right? he needs to make up his mind. pretty soon his face is gonna look like mike tysons.
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Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.\n \nHis name is Luis Inácio da Silva but he added his nickname Lula to it,and this is the oficial name now.He's known by Lula.
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Depends... Whats his name? I can find it for u if i have a name..
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ESPN back in the day used to stand for entertainment sports network, however now believe it or not it stands for NOTHING. It is just a symbol and a name now.
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it all started with a bridge being built between Indiana and Kentucky. The Man in Charge of the Indiana side was named Sam Hoosier. People started refuring to his workers as hoosiers.
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Indiana is a region occupied by Western Indians (Native Americans) and that is how it got its name.