Card sharp versus card shark

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:36 PM -0500 2/24/03, George Thompson wrote:
>The NYU sports teams were long known as "The Violets", after flowers
>that grew at its Bronx campus.  This, I think, was considered
>unsatisfactory, but it was not until the Bobst Library named its
>on-line catalog "BobCat" -- "Bobst" and "Catalog" -- get it? that
>the men's teams started calling themselves the "Bobcats", with a
>fuzzy, cuddly bobcat leading cheers from the sidelines.  The women's
>teams, I believe, still answer the the name "Violets", no doubt
>thinking that it is more ignominious for an sports team to be named
>after a library catalog than after a spring flower.
>
I have occasionally wondered whether the men's teams couldn't opt to
be known as "The Violents".  Maybe they're saving that in case they
ever bring back the football team there.

Larry