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Article: CYBERSPORTS WHAT WAS JOE, MONTANA, CALLED BEFORE THE CITY CHANGED ITS NAME?(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- November 5, 2001
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Byline: - Tom Hoffarth
Marv Albert was Marvin Aufrichtig. Howard Cosell was Howard Cohen. Jim McKay was Jim McManus.
That's just part of the name game a lot of sportscasters play when they get into the business of telling it like it is.
Several Web sites have tried to keep up with the real birth names of actors, singers, politicians and religious leaders. A few even have an interesting story behind the change.
At a site called www.famousnamechanges.com, maintained by an Australian marketing firm, a section on sporting figures starts with some that are pretty well-documented: For religious reasons, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali and ...