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Opposite Ends

By Seth Wickersham

Thursday, November 6, 2008

There are two very easy ways to get on Adewale Ogunleye's nerves. One is to butcher his name. The other is to be Alex Brown. The pronunciation part is easy to fix. It's Add-awal -lay O-goon-lay-eh. Not Aid-a-welly or Uh-gunlay or any other of the estimated 1,864 ways folks have screwed it up over the years. And if you want to be casual with Ogunleye and call him by his nickname, it's Wallay, not Wally. Says Lovie Smith: "Even I mess up his name all the time." Solving Ogunleye's other annoyan ...

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