During one game in 1995, 36 octopi were thrown onto the ice, including one that weighed 38 pounds. That year, Al the Octopus was commissioned as a mascot for the Red Wings. It was named after the then ...

With its grinning, bald-domed Frankie the Friar mascot, the Red Flash reached the Big Dance ... The only U.S. college known as the Jackrabbits, South Dakota State has had the moniker for so ...