Revolution's first foe helped to fire up team By Frank Dell'Apa, Globe Staff Pierce, Revs start anew By Gus Martins, Boston Herald
Let's Get It On! by Mike Marshall An aside to ProseLtd on thread topics: "Rev news" would seem to apply to a single player, while "Revs news" would refer to the team. Call me a nitpicker...
Glad you have a sense of humor, please do keep posting the daily news links. I'm sure there's much more important things to argue about, but "the Rev" or "Revo" designation has always sounded weird to me. Not that I frequent the Big Baseball, Big Football etc boards, but it would seem equally strange to see topic titles such as Pat news, Red Sock news, Celtic news, or Bruin news.
http://www.milforddailynews.com/sports/sports/revs_running04132003.htm Hope the link works. It's only the Milford daily news, but the Rev's coverage takes up 2/3 of the page, with the other 1/3 a cloumn about the Revs, Breakers, and area soccer (I don't think the second column was online).
I say, Tony... I think Rev is referring to Revolution rather than Revolution players. Revs news sounds British as in maths for mathematics, or "Revolution are contending for MLS Cup".
The name of the team (Revolution) is singular, while the other teams' names (Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics and Patriots) are plural. Revs news would be comparable to Red Soxes news.
You beat me to it. That was in the MetroWest Daily News. Revolution Running Smoothly by Mike Biglin http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/sports/sports/revs_running04132003.htm As for the other article, you are probably referring to this one: On Soccer: Nicol's theory straightforward By Damian Vega http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/sports/columnists/scolvega04132003.htm
The actual name for the team is singular, but isn't the nickname usually used in the plural tense? Perhaps I differ from the mainstream here, but if I'm going to a game, I say that 'I'm going to watch the Revs', no 'I'm going to watch the Rev'. I would agree that you wouldn't say "Revolutions' News", but that wouldn't seem to apply to the common usage of this nickname. I'd also like to add that that it's kinda funny that on the day of the season opener, the biggest topic of conversation concerning team news is about semantics.
Season preview from the Eagle-Tribune: (Mea culpa in advance: The idiot writer of the following story doesn't know his left from his right. Keep that in mind when reading about Ralston and Kamler. D'oh!) Continuity key to Revolution success http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20030413/SP_006.htm Still looking for that Perfect 10 http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20030413/SP_007.htm There's also team-by-team capsules that didn't make the Web site.
Blame in on the ingrained defensive mentality of the Revs: When Ralston is streaking at you down the wing, he is indeed coming at you from the left side...