Could someone please tell the CBS commentator who covers NFL games (don’t know his name) that the last name of San Diego Chargers wide receiver Tim Dwight has only one syllable?
All day yesterday i had to put up with hearing it continually being pronounced “da-wight.”
Stop it!
BTW, GO RAVENS!!! 
Well, I’m not sure where I heard it, but I did hear it - and I did a mental double take on it. You know how some people do affectations of people’s names? That’s kind of what it was like. Like pronouncing, for example, “Daniel” as “Donnyell” or some such nonsense. Maybe someone along the line thought that’s how it went.
Then there are the names everyone got wrong:
Walt Tkachuk, a center for the NY Rangers in the 70s. The team told everyone that his name was pronounced “Tay-Chuck,” and for years that was official. Then Tkachuk himself pointed out the name was pronounced “ka-CHOOK.”
Joe Theismann’s name was given out as rhyming with “Heisman” by the Notre Dame publicist, though it was later revealed it was pronounced “Thees-man,” rhyming with “trees-man.”
Johnny Evers of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, pronounced his name “ee-vers,” not “evers.” Long e in the first syllable.
Bobby Knoop, a second baseman for the 60s California Angels, usually was rendered “noop,” but it was correctly pronounced “ka-NOP.”
And, of course, Raymond Luxury-Yacht’s last name was pronounded “Throatwarbler Mangrove.”
SUN-il/Sun-IL/SOO-nil GAV-as-kar/Gav-AS-kuh was a great Indian batsman of the '70s and '80s, but the pronunciation of his name seemed to change with every tour he made, as the commentators got new information from the team management.
I remember there was also some kerfuffle about Mattiah Mu-ra-LID-ur-an/Mu-ra-li-DUR-an/That-Sri-Lan-kan-bas-tard-who-CHUCKS-the-ball during his last antipodean tour.