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1 QB-PP Belleville, MI
Belleville High School 6’4” 205 92

2 OT Charlotte, NC
Providence Day School 6’6” 250 91

3 WR Saraland, AL
Saraland High School 6’1” 175 91

4 DE Miami, FL
Miami Central High School 6’4” 250 90

5 DT Savannah, GA
Savannah Christian Preparatory School 6’4” 280 90

6 CB Birmingham, AL
A. H. Parker High School 6’2” 185 90

7 DT Manchester, GA
Manchester High School 6’6” 280 90

8 OG Las Vegas, NV
Bishop Gorman High School 6’3” 285 90

9 OT Las Vegas, NV
Bishop Gorman High School 6’6” 285 90

10 WR Duncanville, TX
Duncanville High School 5’11” 180 90

11 OT Lewisville, TX
Lewisville High School 6’6” 290 90

12 CB Houston, TX
North Shore High School 6’2” 170 88

13 S Zephyrhills, FL
Zephyrhills High School 6’3” 170 88

14 OLB Ellaville, GA
Schley High School 6’3” 225 88

15 WR Jacksonville, FL
Mandarin High School 6’2” 185 87

16 S Alabaster, AL
Thompson High School 6’2” 190 87

17 WR Ackerman, MS
Choctaw County High School 6’3” 190 86

18 RB Metairie, LA
Saint Martins Episcopal School 6’0” 185 86

19 TE-H Los Alamitos, CA
Los Alamitos High School 6’5” 235 86

20 DE Edwardsville, IL
Edwardsville High School 6’4” 235 86

21 TE-Y Folkston, GA
Camden County High School 6’7” 235 86

22 OT Jacksonville, FL
Raines High School 6’5” 300 86

23 ATH Chattanooga, TN
Baylor School 6’3” 215 86

24 OT Prichard, AL
Vigor High School 6’5” 290 86

25 CB Mission Viejo, CA
Mission Viejo High School 6’4” 190 86

26 OLB San Juan Capistrano, CA
JSerra Catholic High School 6’3” 210 86

27 OT Roswell, GA
Fellowship Christian School 6’5” 255 86

28 QB-PP Brentwood, TN
Brentwood Academy 6’6” 185 86

29 ATH Selma, AL
Southside High School 6’2” 190 85

30 CB Baltimore, MD
St. Frances Academy 5’11” 185 85

31 DE Birmingham, AL
Spain Park High School 6’7” 235 85

32 CB Winter Garden, FL
West Orange High School 6’0” 175 85

33 WR Tampa, FL
Tampa Bay Tech Senior High 6’4” 190 85

34 DE Norfolk, VA
Maury High School 6’6” 235 85

35 CB Atlanta, GA
Douglass High School 6’1” 185 85

36 RB Santa Ana, CA
Mater Dei High School 6’0” 215 85

37 S Thomasville, GA
Thomas County Central High School 5’11” 175 84

38 OLB Buford, GA
Buford High School 6’4” 210 84

39 DE College Park, GA
Woodward Academy 6’3” 245 84

40 RB Bradenton, FL
IMG Academy 5’9” 190 84

41 OLB Santa Ana, CA
Mater Dei High School 6’3” 215 84

42 DE Houston, TX
Summer Creek High School 6’5” 230 84

43 S Monroe, NC
Monroe High School 6’0” 185 84

44 DE Troy, AL
Charles Henderson High School 6’4” 225 84

45 S Washington, DC
Gonzaga College High School 6’0” 190 84

46 CB New Iberia, LA
Westgate High School 6’1” 180 84

47 WR Fulshear, TX
Jordan High School 6’1” 180 84

48 QB-PP Saraland, AL
Saraland High School 6’0” 175 84

49 ATH Clayton, OH
Northmont Senior High School 6’2” 190 84

50 QB-PP Warner Robins, GA
Houston County High School 6’5” 215 84

51 RB Lynchburg, VA
Liberty Christian Academy 6’0” 195 84

52 DE Philadelphia, PA
Imhotep Institute Charter High School 6’7” 225 84

53 S Olney, MD
Our Lady of Good Counsel High School 6’3” 205 84

54 OLB La Verne, CA
Bonita High School 6’4” 215 84

55 RB Bradenton, FL
IMG Academy 6’1” 210 84

56 CB Katy, TX
Patricia E. Paetow High School 5’11” 175 84

57 RB Elba, AL
Elba High School 5’10” 195 84

58 OT Mesquite, TX
Horn High School 6’7” 280 84

59 OLB Galveston, TX
Ball High School 6’3” 210 84

60 RB Quitman, MS
Quitman High School 6’0” 205 84

61 OLB North Palm Beach, FL
The Benjamin School 6’5” 210 84

62 OT Spanish Fork, UT
Spanish Fork High School 6’8” 295 84

63 CB Santa Ana, CA
Mater Dei High School 6’1” 185 84

64 OLB McKinney, TX
McKinney High School 6’2” 205 84

65 CB Detroit, MI
Cass Technical High School 6’1” 180 83

66 WR Santa Ana, CA
Mater Dei High School 6’0” 185 83

67 OLB Jesup, GA
Wayne County High School 6’1” 200 83

68 DE Tallahassee, FL
James S. Rickards High School 6’5” 260 83

69 S Pittsburg, CA
Pittsburg High School 6’2” 185 83

70 CB Buford, GA
Buford High School 5’11” 170 83

71 RB Leesburg, GA
Lee County High School 6’2” 215 83

72 DE Greensboro, NC
Grimsley High School 6’4” 245 83

73 OT Evans, GA
Evans High School 6’6” 305 83

74 OLB Vero Beach, FL
Vero Beach Senior High School 6’3” 215 83

75 OG Lilburn, GA
Parkview High School 6’4” 280 83

76 OT Salem, VA
Salem High School 6’5” 310 83

77 ATH Oradell, NJ
Bergen Catholic High 6’3” 200 83

78 OT Atlanta, GA
Westlake High School 6’8” 330 83

79 DT Lake City, SC
South Florence High School 6’5” 295 83

80 S Enterprise, AL
Enterprise High School 6’3” 205 83

81 OT Cedar Rapids, IA
John F. Kennedy High School 6’7” 345 83

82 QB-DT San Diego, CA
Abraham Lincoln High School 6’6” 210 83

83 DT Birmingham, AL
A. H. Parker High School 6’2” 310 83

84 WR West Palm Beach, FL
Cardinal Newman High School 6’1” 175 83

85 OLB Omaha, NE
Westside High School 6’3” 215 83

86 OT Toms River, NJ
Toms River North High School 6’6” 305 83

87 WR Bradenton, FL
IMG Academy 5’10” 175 83

88 OLB Bradenton, FL
IMG Academy 6’2” 205 83

89 DE Weatherford, OK
Weatherford High School 6’5” 225 83

90 WR Pleasanton, CA
Archbishop Riordan High School 6’1” 180 83

91 QB-DT Lucedale, MS
George County High School 6’5” 200 83

92 OC Las Vegas, NV
Bishop Gorman High School 6’4” 300 83

93 DT Snow Hill, NC
Greene Central High School 6’4” 265 83

94 DE Cocoa, FL
Cocoa High School 6’5” 235 83

95 TE-H Alpharetta, GA
Alpharetta High School 6’3” 235 83

96 WR Mission Hills, CA
Bishop Alemany High School 6’2” 190 83

97 OT Denton, TX
Billy Ryan High School 6’5” 285 83

98 WR Toms River, NJ
Monsignor Donovan High School 6’0” 190 83

99 OLB Sugar Land, TX
Fort Bend Christian Academy 6’3” 210 83

100 WR Homestead, FL
Homestead Senior High School 6’1” 180 83

101 TE-H Mukilteo, WA
Kamiak High School 6’4” 225 83

102 CB Lexington, MS
Holmes County Central High School 6’1” 180 83

103 DT Hattiesburg, MS
Oak Grove High School 6’3” 275 83

104 ATH Shaker Heights, OH
Shaker Heights High School 6’0” 180 83

105 S Jacksonville, FL
Mandarin High School 6’2” 190 82

106 DT Hattiesburg, MS
Hattiesburg High School 6’2” 285 82

107 OLB Lake Cormorant, MS
Lake Cormorant High School 6’2” 210 82

108 S Little Rock, AR
Parkview Arts & Science Magnet High 6’0” 180 82

109 ATH Cleveland Heights, OH
Cleveland Heights High School 6’1” 200 82

110 RB Cleveland, OH
Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School 6’1” 215 82

111 DT Nashville, TN
The Ensworth School 6’5” 280 82

112 TE-H Washington, OK
Washington High School 6’4” 225 82

113 ATH San Antonio, TX
Alamo Heights High School 6’3” 215 82

114 RB Plantation, FL
American Heritage High School 5’11” 210 82

115 WR Ennis, TX
Ennis High School 5’10” 170 82

116 OLB Dallas, TX
Skyline High School 6’2” 220 82

117 CB Cedartown, GA
Cedartown High School 6’0” 180 82

118 DE Texarkana, TX
Pleasant Grove High School 6’5” 250 82

119 ATH Saint Louis, MO
Vashon High School 5’11” 190 82

120 OLB Jersey City, NJ
Snyder High School 6’1” 215 82

121 OG Fort Valley, GA
Peach County High School 6’4” 285 82

122 QB-DT Lawrence, MA
Central Catholic High School 6’3” 215 82

123 WR Lee’s Summit, MO
Lee’s Summit North High School 6’1” 190 82

124 OLB Philadelphia, PA
St. Joseph’s Prep School 6’4” 215 82

125 QB-PP Corona, CA
Centennial High School 6’1” 190 82

126 CB Kahuku, HI
Kahuku High School 6’0” 165 82

127 WR Allen, TX
Lovejoy High School 6’0” 175 82

128 DT Washington, DC
Friendship Collegiate Academy 6’5” 320 82

129 CB Hollywood, FL
Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School 6’0” 170 82

130 QB-PP Findlay, OH
Findlay High School 6’3” 210 82

131 OT Waukesha, WI
Catholic Memorial High School 6’6” 280 82

132 RB Philadelphia, PA
Imhotep Institute Charter High School 6’1” 210 82

133 DE HIghland Home, AL
Highland Home High School 6’4” 235 82

134 QB-PP Midwest City, OK
Carl Albert High School 6’1” 200 82

135 DT Lufkin, TX
Lufkin High School 6’3” 295 82

136 WR Oklahoma City, OK
Millwood High School 6’4” 190 82

137 CB Santa Ana, CA
Mater Dei High School 6’0” 185 82

138 S Jackson, TN
Jackson Christian School 6’1” 190 82

139 WR Scottsdale, AZ
Notre Dame Prepatory 6’1” 190 82

140 ILB Dallas, TX
South Oak Cliff High 6’0” 210 82

141 CB Los Alamitos, CA
Los Alamitos High School 6’2” 165 82

142 ATH Owings, MD
McDonogh School 6’2” 215 82

143 CB Chester, VA
Thomas Dale High School 6’2” 180 82

144 DT Madison, MS
Hartfield Academy 6’3” 265 82

145 CB Brownsboro, TX
Brownsboro High School 6’1” 180 82

146 RB Seminole, FL
Osceola High School 5’9” 185 82

147 CB Quartz Hill, CA
Quartz Hill High School 6’2” 170 81

148 DT Cypress, TX
Cy-Fair High School 6’2” 270 81

149 RB Humble, TX
Atascocita High School 5’11” 180 81

150 CB Pearland, TX
Shadow Creek High School 6’0” 170 81

151 OLB El Centro, CA
Central High School 6’2” 210 81

152 TE-Y West Chester, OH
Lakota West High School 6’8” 240 81

153 OLB Cincinnati, OH
Winton Woods High School 6’4” 215 81

154 CB Miami, FL
Booker T. Washington High School 6’1” 170 81

155 S Eastman, GA
Dodge High School 6’2” 205 81

156 OG Rabun Gap, GA
Rabun Gap Nacoochee School 6’5” 275 81

157 DT Port Charlotte, FL
Port Charlotte High School 6’5” 285 81

158 OLB Danville, CA
San Ramon Valley High School 6’4” 220 81

159 OT Toledo, OH
Whitmer High School 6’5” 290 81

160 S Las Vegas, NV
Faith Lutheran High School 6’3” 190 81

161 DT Philadelphia, PA
St. Joseph’s Prep School 6’4” 280 81

162 OG Fairburn, GA
Langston Hughes High School 6’3” 295 81

163 WR Sachse, TX
Sachse High School 6’2” 185 81

164 OLB Spanaway, WA
Bethel High School 6’3” 215 81

165 OT Buford, GA
Buford High School 6’8” 315 81

166 ATH Tampa, FL
Berkeley Prep 6’1” 175 81

167 DT Baltimore, MD
St. Frances Academy 6’3” 275 81

168 WR Geneva, IL
Geneva High School 6’1” 170 81

169 RB Gaithersburg, MD
Quince Orchard High School 5’11” 190 81

170 WR DeSoto, TX
DeSoto High School 5’11” 170 81

171 RB Tampa Bay, FL
Plant Senior High School 6’1” 195 81

172 OT Houston, TX
Lamar High School 6’6” 305 81

173 CB Miami, FL
Booker T. Washington High School 6’2” 180 81

174 TE-Y Pittsburgh, PA
North Catholic High School 6’7” 240 81

175 OT Boerne, TX
Boerne High School 6’6” 320 81

176 CB Montvale, NJ
Saint Joseph Regional High School 6’1” 180 81

177 WR Pearland, TX
Shadow Creek High School 5’10” 180 81

178 TE-Y Green Bay, WI
Notre Dame De La Baie Academy 6’5” 225 81

179 OG San Jose, CA
Valley Christian High School 6’4” 325 81

180 DT Bellville, TX
Bellville High School 6’3” 285 81

181 CB Washington, DC
St. John’s College High School 6’0” 180 81

182 WR Pflugerville, TX
Weiss High School 6’1” 170 81

183 QB-PP Orange, CA
Orange Lutheran High School 6’2” 190 81

184 OLB Opelousas, LA
Opelousas High School 6’3” 210 81

185 TE-H Jasper, TX
Jasper High School 6’5” 245 81

186 RB Tyler, TX
Chapel Hill High School 5’10” 185 81

187 WR Red Oak, TX
Red Oak High School 5’11” 175 81

188 OT Overland Park, KS
Blue Valley Northwest High School 6’6” 270 80

189 RB Plantation, FL
American Heritage High School 5’10” 185 80

190 TE-H El Dorado Hills, CA
Oak Ridge High School 6’6” 220 80

191 S Miami, FL
Miami Central High School 5’11” 175 80

192 QB-PP Fort Myers, FL
Bishop Verot High School 6’3” 185 80

193 RB Houma, LA
Vandebilt Catholic School 5’8” 165 80

194 OLB Baton Rouge, LA
University Laboratory School 6’2” 220 80

195 DT Oak Park, IL
Fenwick High School 6’4” 270 80

196 OLB Baltimore, MD
St. Frances Academy 6’1” 205 80

197 DE Hyattsville, MD
DeMatha Catholic High School 6’3” 210 80

198 OLB Salem, NJ
Salem High School 6’1” 195 80

199 S Chattanooga, TN
Brainerd High School 6’1” 190 80

200 RB Fort Worth, TX
North Crowley High School 5’10” 175 80

201 DE Port Arthur, TX
Memorial High School 6’3” 240 80

202 ILB Las Vegas, NV
Arbor View High School 6’2” 200 80

203 RB Covington, GA
Newton High School 5’9” 180 80

204 DE Warner Robins, GA
Warner Robins High School 6’5” 250 80

205 QB-PP Harrisburg, PA
Bishop McDevitt High School 6’1” 205 80

206 OT Beverly Hills, MI
Groves High School 6’5” 280 80

207 RB DeSoto, TX
DeSoto High School 5’11” 200 80

208 WR West Bloomfield, MI
West Bloomfield High School 5’11” 175 80

209 OG Bradenton, FL
IMG Academy 6’3” 285 80

210 DE Quebec, CAN
Cegep Garneau 6’4” 260 80

211 S Norfolk, VA
Maury High School 6’3” 190 80

212 OLB Pittsburgh, PA
Imani Christian Academy 6’3” 220 80

213 QB-DT Murrieta, CA
Murrieta Valley High School 6’2” 215 80

214 TE-H Calhoun, GA
Calhoun High School 6’2” 230 80

215 RB Shreveport, LA
Calvary Baptist Academy 5’11” 200 80

216 QB-PP Chatsworth, CA
Sierra Canyon High School 6’2” 185 80

217 ILB Culpeper, VA
Eastern View High School 6’3” 235 80

218 CB Murfreesboro, TN
Siegel High School 6’3” 180 80

219 WR Hollywood, FL
Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School 6’2” 185 80

220 DT Saraland, AL
Saraland High School 6’2” 270 80

221 OG Nashville, TN
David Lipscomb High School 6’4” 320 80

222 ILB Seminole, FL
Osceola High School 6’2” 225 80

223 CB Baltimore, MD
St. Frances Academy 5’11” 185 80

224 QB-PP Miami, FL
Miami Central High School 6’6” 195 80

225 WR Gautier, MS
Gautier High School 5’11” 180 80

226 CB Indianapolis, IN
Ben Davis High School 6’0” 170 80

227 WR Wayne, NJ
DePaul Catholic High School 6’0” 185 80

228 OG Dyersburg, TN
Dyersburg High School 6’4” 325 80

229 ILB Bradenton, FL
IMG Academy 6’0” 230 80

230 WR Lafayette, LA
Acadiana High School 5’8” 170 80

231 TE-Y Derby, KS
Derby Senior High School 6’5” 225 80

232 S Miami, FL
Belen Jesuit Prep 6’1” 180 80

233 OLB Princeton, NJ
The Hun School Of Princeton 6’1” 215 80

234 DE Shawnee, KS
Mill Valley High School 6’3” 220 80

235 ATH Saint Louis, MO
Cardinal Ritter College Prep 6’0” 185 80

236 QB-PP Severn, MD
Archbishop Spalding High School 6’4” 205 80

237 DE Red Oak, TX
Red Oak High School 6’4” 235 80

238 CB Midwest City, OK
Carl Albert High School 6’2” 170 80

239 DE Chicago, IL
Simeon Career Academy 6’5” 250 80

240 ILB Auburn, WA
Auburn-Riverside High School 6’0” 195 80

241 WR San Antonio, TX
Brandeis High School 6’1” 175 80

242 DE Wyncote, PA
Cheltenham High School 6’4” 230 80

243 RB The Woodlands, TX
The Woodlands High School 6’0” 185 80

244 QB-DT Little Rock, AR
Robinson High School 6’2” 190 80

245 OLB Jefferson, GA
Jefferson High School 6’3” 210 80

246 WR The Woodlands, TX
The Woodlands High School 6’0” 175 80

247 DT Overland Park, KS
Saint Thomas Aquinas High School 6’6” 270 80

248 S Wellington, FL
Palm Beach Central High School 6’1” 190 80

249 OT Phoenix, AZ
Brophy Prep 6’5” 255 79

250 WR Houston, TX
Andy Dekaney High School 6’0” 175 79

251 S Nashville, TN
David Lipscomb High School 6’3” 195 79

252 DT Palatine, IL
Palatine High School 6’6” 280 79

253 OT Honolulu, HI
Saint Louis School 6’3” 265 79

254 S Spring, TX
Legacy The School of Sport Sciences 6’0” 180 79

255 WR Checotah, OK
Checotah High School 6’1” 185 79

256 DE Concord, CA
De La Salle High School 6’6” 250 79

257 RB North Richland Hills, TX
Richland High School 6’0” 200 79

258 TE-H Orange, CA
Orange Lutheran High School 6’6” 215 79

259 WR Columbia, MS
Columbia High School 6’1” 200 79

260 RB Tampa, FL
Jesuit High School 6’0” 190 79

261 CB Rabun Gap, GA
Rabun Gap Nacoochee School 6’2” 175 79

262 S Winston-Salem, NC
Mount Tabor High School 6’4” 190 79

263 DE Indianapolis, IN
Warren Central High School 6’5” 235 79

264 TE-H Clear Lake, IA
Clear Lake High School 6’5” 210 79

265 WR Pembroke Pines, FL
West Broward High School 6’3” 210 79

266 DT Melbourne, FL
Eau Gallie High School 6’2” 275 79

267 CB Chatsworth, CA
Sierra Canyon High School 5’11” 165 79

268 ATH Winston-Salem, NC
Mount Tabor High School 6’2” 175 79

269 DE HIghland Home, AL
Highland Home High School 6’4” 230 79

270 RB Montvale, NJ
Saint Joseph Regional High School 6’0” 190 79

271 QB-DT Kernersville, NC
East Forsyth High School 6’3” 185 79

272 WR Pembroke Pines, FL
Somerset Academy 6’2” 190 79

273 ATH Hesperia, CA
Sultana High School 6’1” 180 79

274 DE Galveston, TX
Ball High School 6’4” 245 79

275 OT Riverview, FL
Jule F. Sumner High School 6’4” 260 79

276 DT Bogart, GA
Prince Avenue Christian School 6’4” 260 79

277 TE-Y Milton, GA
Milton High School 6’5” 220 79

278 OLB Sanford, FL
Seminole High School 6’2” 195 79

279 TE-H Leo, IN
Leo Junior Senior High School 6’3” 210 79

280 DT Chesterfield, VA
Matoaca High School 6’6” 260 79

281 DE Pittsburg, CA
Pittsburg High School 6’3” 235 79

282 ATH Lubbock, TX
Estacado High School 6’4” 210 79

283 DE Detroit, MI
Martin Luther King High School 6’5” 220 79

284 CB Atco, NJ
Winslow Township High School 5’11” 165 79

285 QB-PP San Juan Capistrano, CA
JSerra Catholic High School 6’1” 185 79

286 ATH Omaha, NE
Millard North High School 6’0” 190 79

287 WR Richmond, VA
Trinity Episcopal School 6’2” 185 79

288 OG Sanford, FL
Seminole High School 6’5” 285 79

289 RB Wynnewood, OK
Wynnewood High School 5’11” 190 79

290 DT Buford, GA
Buford High School 6’2” 280 79

291 QB-PP Downey, CA
Warren High School 6’3” 185 79

292 RB Greer, SC
Greer Senior High School 5’10” 180 78

293 ATH Germantown, TN
Germantown High School 5’10” 190 78

294 S East Saint Louis, IL
East St. Louis High School 6’2” 190 78

295 RB Southlake, TX
Carroll High School 5’10” 180 78

296 OT Slinger, WI
Slinger High School 6’5” 305 78

297 RB Philadelphia, PA
St. Joseph’s Prep School 6’0” 210 78

298 WR Drexel Hill, PA
Monsignor Bonner High School 6’5” 195 78

299 OLB Belleville, MI
Belleville High School 6’0” 205 78

300 ATH College Park, GA
Woodward Academy 5’11” 180 78

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A weird, wonderful night with Ryans, the Rockies and an unlikely world-record attempt

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A weird, wonderful night with Ryans, the Rockies and an unlikely world-record attempt

Editor’s note: All writing, editing and photography for this story was done by Ryans

It is 4:30 p.m. on a Friday. Beer o’clock. The shout goes up in a Denver bar as a man indeed named Ryan strides through the door. Suddenly, everyone in that bar, roughly 250 people, all begin hollering a rolling chorus of “Hey, Ryan!” Then the entire no-way-the-fire-marshal-would-allow-this crowd breaks into a unified chant. “RY-AN! RY-AN! RY-AN!” You see, they are all named Ryan, too.

New Ryan is steered toward a check-in table, where two men named Ryan ask to see Ryan’s ID to officially prove his Ryan-ness. He does. Thus, he is worthy of entrance. Even if he hadn’t been named Ryan there is a clipboard of forms stacked under a cover sheet that reads “Legally Change Your Name to Ryan,” — legit legal forms drafted by a lawyer Ryan. New Ryan doesn’t need to file a document. Instead, he is allowed admittance once he agrees to wear one of the hundreds of identical “Hello my name is Ryan” name tag stickers, to be affixed to the T-shirt he is handed that announces where all these Ryans will be later that evening: COLORADO RYAN MEETUP 2025.

It is June 20 and Ryans hailing from 31 states and Canadian provinces have assembled in the Mile High City seeking to achieve previously unreached heights for a gathering of humans sharing an identical handle. Their goal: to set a record for the most people of the same first name to attend a sporting event. That event: Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.

“You see, Ryan…” explained Ryan the college student from Seattle, surrounded by Ryan of Nashville and Ryan of Amarillo, Texas. “I think that what myself, Ryan, Ryan, and all of the other Ryans are here to do is set the bar. Place that bar where no one of any other name would dare to match it. And setting that bar starts here in this bar.”

The streetside banner that hangs by the front door of that bar reads “Is your name RYAN? Join the Ryan Meetup. No Bryans allowed.” Soon, the Ryan Triumvirate climbs atop the bar inside that bar to welcome their fellow Ryans and instruct them on the proper execution of the Ryan cheers they will use once they have made the 105-degree, sun-baked, three-block walk to Coors Field.

“Let’s go, Ryan!” Clap clap clap-clap-clap

“Give me an ‘R’!”

“The Rockies have four Ryans on their roster and the Diamondbacks have one,” Ryan explains to the room of Ryans, speaking of Colorado third baseman and cleanup hitter Ryan McMahon, rookie shortstop Ryan Ritter, as well as pitchers Ryan Rolison and Ryan Feltner (though Feltner is on the injured list) and Arizona reliever Ryan Thompson.

D-backs righty Ryne Nelson does not count. Ryne is not Ryan. There are rules.

From atop the bar, one of the Ryan Trio has been DM’ing with one of the Rockies Ryans but won’t reveal which one. Not yet. “We cheer for all Ryans. They are our priority!”

The Ryan rah-rah routines are explained by one of three New York Ryans standing above the others. In 2022, Ryan Rose, aka Ryan of New York No. 1, says she had moved to New York and was looking to make new friends. After a couple of failed attempts to create other groups, she decided to lean into her name and printed 10 flyers she posted around her neighborhood. It was a deliberately simple sheet of white paper with the question “Are you a Ryan? No Bryans allowed” and a QR code that led to further information. Ryan Cousins, aka Ryan of New York No. 2, says one day he was leaving his apartment and only a few steps from his front door saw people gathered around a telephone pole. They were reading Ryan Rose’s flyer and one of them turned to him and asked, “Isn’t your name Ryan? You should do this.” When Ryan Cousins showed up, only two other Ryans were there, Ryan Rose and Ryan Le, aka Ryan of New York No. 3, who had been sent a tweet of the flyer from a non-Ryan friend.

From there, the three OG Ryans began posting more Ryan invites around the city and wherever their work travels took them, from Texas to Philly. Then one of Ryan Le’s Manhattan flyers caught the eye of a popular New York social feed, which created buzz within a Ryan Reddit group.

Ryan began a’flyin’.

“All of the sudden,” Ryan Cousins recalls, “We went from Ryan Meetups that had maybe 20 people to having 100, like overnight. And it’s kept growing from there.”

There was a Ryan Rodeo in Austin. A St. Ryan’s Day in Boston. An All-Ryans Game Show in San Diego. They raised enough money in one hour to help a family afford their baby Ryan’s hydrocephalus surgery. And one year ago, they rented out a Manhattan movie theater for a screening of “Deadpool & Wolverine,” attended by 150 Ryans and one Hugh.

“We were hoping Ryan Reynolds might show up,” Cousins confesses. “We did bring in the one Hugh. But we also knew that Hugh Jackman lives in New York and if he had shown up, we would have totally replaced the other Hugh with the movie star Hugh.”

It is now 5:30 p.m. and the Ryans are on the move. A couple dozen Ryans are in a pack, marching toward the entrance of Coors Field. There’s a Denver Ryan, accompanied by another local Ryan, whom he’d just met. It was his Uber driver. “When I got in and realized his name was Ryan, I said I didn’t care if he was at the end of his shift or not, he was parking his car and coming with me.”

There’s a kid in a Rockies jersey with purple “Ryan” lettering across his shoulders, holding hands with a woman whose shirt reads “Ryan’s Mom.” There’s a Ryan in a Kris Bryant Rockies jersey with the “B” and “T” covered with tape so it just reads RYAN. There is a wobbly-walking gentleman in a bowling shirt with a script embroidered “Ryan.” Other shirts say, “Ryan’s Wife,” “Ryan’s Sister,” “I’m With Ryan” and, yes, “F*ck Bryan.” Multiple foursomes of Ryans have no shirts at all, having grabbed the cans of black body paint that were at the bar and slathered R, Y, A or N across their chests. When a “SportsCenter” live report from the pregame festivities attempted to include them, they accidentally but enthusiastically spelled NAYR.

However, on this day the most memorable Ryan was a pregnant woman with a name tag affixed to her belly that informs us she has a Ryan on the way.

It is a reminder of why there are so many Rockies-bound Ryans here in her age group. Millennial and Gen Z Ryans, with some Gen X Ryans, dominate the crowd. According to the Social Security Administration’s database, there isn’t even a blip on their Ryan radar until the 1940s, when the name first cracked their list of the annual top 1,000 baby names. Ryan remained ranked in the triple digits for decades until Ryans ran rampant in the mid-1970s. Ryan peaked in 1991 as the 11th-most-popular name for boys, when 27,534 Ryans were born in the United States. From 1976 through 2009, Ryans rooted themselves in the top 20. Then the Ryan rung of the registry rusted over. In 2024, only 3,892 boy Ryans were birthed, ranking 87th in popularity. They were joined by 399 girl Ryans, rated only 702nd on the female moniker mountain.

“Maybe that’s why we are all so eager to find each other and stick together,” surmised one of the 477 girl Ryans born in 1998, having arrived at the Ryan Meetup from Colorado Springs. “They might call Ryan a dying breed, but clearly, we are very much alive. And maybe we will inspire people to do the right thing and bring more Ryans into this world. By pregnancy or paperwork.”

Ah yes, that paperwork. She and the other Ryans are all buzzing about the one guy who accepted the Ryan Meetup offer to convert him into one of them. To another round of “Ry-an! Ry-an!” encouragement, he held up the name change form he had just filled out, ready to be taken to a local judge. His given name was Payton Thatcher. But here, only 2½ miles from where Peyton Manning once led the Broncos to a Super Bowl championship season, this Denver-living Payton has started the process of changing his name to Ryan. Why? On the line of the form that says: “I am requesting a name change for the following reason(s)” the newest Ryan simply wrote “Because Ryans are awesome.”

As the Ryan Revue marches its way to the front steps of Coors Field, they are greeted by one of the six Ryans who work in the Rockies’ front office. He is there to escort a group of them to the field for the ceremonial first pitch, where they will be joined by Ryan Harris, one of the offensive linemen who blocked for Manning during that Super Bowl run.

It was those Ryans on the Rockies staff who reached out to the Ryan Meetup after spotting their efforts on social media. Said Cousins: “We had done a Ryan Meetup at a Boston Red Sox game and had a decent number, but it’s hard to get a lot of Red Sox tickets. The Rockies don’t have that problem, currently.”

That’s what happens when it’s late June and you are a franchise that is losing ball games at a historically terrible rate. The kind of season where a big league club is looking for any sort of spark to get its ballpark cranking and save its sinking ship before it hits the bottom of the South Platte River.

Rockies Ryan watches the Ryans take a photo in front of the ballpark and then announces, “Ryan, come with me!” And they do.

It is now 6:30 p.m. and the five sections located in the lower-level center-field section of Coors Field are reverberating with the roar of Ryans. Two of those sections are almost exclusively Ryan’d. The Ryans get revved up when the Diamondbacks relievers walk across the outfield to the bullpen and Ryan Thompson gives them a point. They are whipped into a full Ryan ruckus when on the 8,369-square-foot Rockies Vision scoreboard, the massive face of former Colorado outfielder Ryan Spilborghs appears like the Wizard of Oz, points down into the Ryan sections and leads them in a “Ry-an! Ry-an!” cheer. There are so many Ryan Meetup white T-shirts in center field that one Ryan wonders aloud if it might keep the hitters standing 415 feet way from being able to clearly see pitches. Then he adds, “But I don’t really care as long as the two Ryans who will be hitting can see. I’m not sure how I will react when they are at bat.”

Ryan’s and the Ryans’ reaction comes precisely 30 minutes later, when Ryan McMahon’s name is announced and the 6-foot-2 third baseman, whose 11 homers have been one of the lone bright spots during this dismal season, approaches the plate. The Ryans lose their collective “Ry-an! Ry-an! Ry-an!” mind. When he starts with a 1-0 count but then strikes out on three straight pitches, they give a polite “You’ll get ’em next time” clap. Then, as they sit down, a Ryan among them shouts, “That umpire must be a Bryan!” They are cheering again.

(Side note: Unless you are a Ryan, you can’t possibly understand the animosity toward Bryan. Why? Imagine being called the wrong name on a weekly, if not daily, basis. For Ryans, the Bryan confusion makes for so many long first days of school, so many misspelled coffee shop cups, even diplomas and driver licenses that have to be sent back. Is it a bit much to serve a F*ck Brian Belgian White Ale as they did at the brewery on this day? Probably. But now maybe you understand where it comes from.)

One inning later, Ryan Ritter’s name booms from the same scoreboard that has spent every between-inning break showing the in-stadium contests, every participant being a Ryan plucked from the meetup. The rookie is barely two weeks removed from making his big league debut. He has yet to record an extra-base hit.

Until now.

When Ryan Ritter slides into second with a double, he turns and points toward the Ryans in center field. As the Ryans dance and scream and hug, Ryan Cousins finally reveals to the Ryans around him that the Rockies Ryan he had been DM’ing with all day was the one now standing on second. Five pitches later, Ritter is crossing home plate for Colorado’s first run of the night.

It is now 7:30 p.m. and Ryan McMahon is back at the plate. It is the bottom of the fourth and the Rockies are trailing 6-1. What happens next is difficult to fully describe. McMahon shows patience as he takes a first-strike fastball and then lays off an 85 mph changeup out of the zone from Diamondbacks pitcher Zac Gallen. Then, another changeup. It is also 85 mph but most definitely in the strike zone. At least it was. Moments later it lands in the right-field stands, 467 feet away, Ryan McMahon’s 12th home run of the season.

A Ryan and his Ryan-loving wife, dressed in Denver Nuggets and Rockies jerseys with “Realtor Ryan” sewn onto the shoulders, kiss. A Ryan in a 1986 Nolan Ryan jersey high-fives a woman holding a sign that says “Ryan, Call Me” complete with her phone number. A kid Ryan in a Ryan Meetup T-shirt is crying. Pretty sure the grown-up Ryan next to him accidentally stepped on his toes. He is also crying.

“It was so cool, man,” McMahon would say later. “They were loud. They were rowdy. It was good energy. So, it was cool.” And are the Ryans the reason you went yard, Ryan? “It sure didn’t hurt. Whenever the Ryans want to come back, let them know that this Ryan is all for it.”

So is Ritter, who wound up 2-4 and accounted for three of the Rockies’ runs, with two of his own and an RBI.

“Yeah, it was me they were DM’ing on Instagram,” the Ryan wearing No. 8 confessed later that night. “They were acknowledging me, McMahon, Rolison, it was fun.”

It is 9:30 p.m. and perhaps there has been a little too much fun. The last Ryans standing have found their way to Section 160. Few are actually standing. The usher has given up trying to check and see if everyone is in their correct seats, having picked up a “Hello my name is … Ryan” name tag and stuck it just above his official stadium name tag that reads Deandre. The R-Y-A-N boys are once again standing in NAYR formation, the black body paint now sweat-smeared into more of a M-A-V-P. At least three Ryans are asleep. An award has been given to a South Florida Ryan, determined to be the Ryan who traveled the farthest to be with other Ryans. A baseball is being passed from Ryan to Ryan, who handle it with reverence as if it were fine gemstone delivered by Ryan Diamonds (that’s a real place in Los Angeles). It is the ball Ryan McMahon deposited in the stands, retrieved by a Ryan Meetup member who offered the person who caught it $40 and a free beer.

The last burst of Ryan rowdiness rolled through Coors Field a half-hour earlier. That’s when a Ryan ran down to the front row of the meetup sections and announced, “Hey Ryan, it’s time for a Congo line!” Ryan, of course, meant a conga line. And after that line of Ryans had completed a “Let’s go Ry-an!” lap of the stadium, many Ryans went not so quietly into the good Colorado night.

By the time the game ended with, fittingly but cruelly, a Ryan McMahon strikeout, the final official tally of the Ryan Meetup had been rounded up and rounded off. The official Ryan count per Ryan Cousins was 481, based on tickets sold to Ryans. But Rockies estimates were higher, in the 700 range. It wasn’t enough to break the record for same-name gatherings. That still apparently belongs to a group of 2,325 Ivans who amassed in 2017. But until someone of a non-Ryan name can prove otherwise, the Ryan Meetup is claiming the mark for its original goal, the most to pack a singular sporting event. Until they do it again.

It is 10:30 p.m. and the Ryan Meetup core planning group is back at the bar where it started eight hours earlier … plus one. Ryan Ritter is now among them and the shortstop has traded in his Rockies jersey for a white Ryan Meetup T-shirt. The next evening, Ryan McMahon will take pregame warmups while wearing his.

There are laughs. There are smiles. There are a few more “Ry-an! Ry-an!” chants and a few more F*ck Brian beers consumed. Because another goal has also been reached. It’s the problem that Ryan Rose went searching to solve three years ago. She wanted to find some friends. Now Ryan — and all these other Ryans — have more friends than they can accurately count.

“Here we are, in this time where everyone and everything seems to be working to divide us,” a local Denver Ryan said during the game, identifying himself as a psychologist. Dr. Ryan, like dozens of other Ryans, had come from his seats elsewhere in Coors Field to see if as a Ryan he might get in on this Ryan-ing. “Here’s a bunch of people from all over, probably from very different backgrounds and political views, and they have found the simplest common ground to make them forget all of the things that might normally prevent them from being together like this.”

“I mean it when I say the Ryan Meetup has changed my life,” explains Ryan Fisher of South Florida, a member of the committee. “A year or so ago, I was struggling to find my identity. As we get older, it’s hard to meet new people and make new friends and make new friend groups … and this is the most random thing that just has been the coolest thing. When I talk to people about it, they often tell me how they can hear the joy in my voice. And that means a lot to me.”

Thank you, Ryan.

“No, thank you, Ryan.”

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Mets’ Canning has ruptured Achilles, on 60-day IL

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Jun 27, 2025, 04:30 PM ET

The New York Mets announced that starting pitcher Griffin Canning suffered a ruptured Achilles on Thursday night.

Canning was placed on the 60-day injured list on Friday and faces a lengthy recovery. It is the same injury that affected NBA stars Damian Lillard, Jayson Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton during the playoffs.

On Thursday, Canning threw a pitch to Atlanta’s Nick Allen, who grounded out to shortstop Francisco Lindor. Planting his leg to run to back up third base, Canning crumpled to the ground and held his left leg in the air. Mets catcher Luis Torrens waved for the training staff and manager Carlos Mendoza to attend to him, and they had to help Canning off the field.

The right-hander pitched 2⅔ scoreless innings, allowing just one hit and fanning three with no walks. In his first season with the Mets following five with the Los Angeles Angels, Canning was 7-3 with a 3.77 ERA in 16 starts.

New York made a number of other transactions along with Canning’s move to the IL.

The Mets recalled right-hander Blade Tidwell and selected left-hander Colin Poche from Triple-A Syracuse. They optioned right-hander Austin Warren and infielder Jared Young to Syracuse, and left-hander Dicky Lovelady elected free agency after declining an outright assignment to Triple-A.

The Mets also reinstated infielder Mark Vientos from the 10-day IL. Vientos last played June 2 before going on the injured list with a hamstring strain. He is in the Mets’ lineup for Friday’s game at the Pittsburgh Pirates, batting sixth as the designated hitter.

Finally, the Mets signed outfielder Jose Azocar to a minor league deal and sent him to Syracuse. Azocar began the season with New York, playing 12 games for the major league club; after being granted free agency, he saw action in two games for the Atlanta Braves, then was granted free agency again June 18.

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Mariners’ Raleigh joins Derby, plans family event

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Jun 27, 2025, 02:58 PM ET

Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, who leads the majors in homers with 32, said Friday that he will participate in next month’s Home Run Derby.

The Derby will be held July 14, the night before the All-Star Game, at Truist Park in Atlanta.

It’s the first derby appearance for the 28-year-old known as Big Dumper. This season, Raleigh became the first catcher and first switch-hitter to reach 30 homers before the All-Star break.

“I’m excited to represent the Mariners and our fanbase,” Raleigh said in a statement. “It will be extra special for me getting to do it in Atlanta, where I spent a lot of time playing baseball as a kid.”

Raleigh said he is considering hitting from both sides of the plate, which would make him the second player to do so after Adley Rutschman in 2023.

“That’d be kind of cool, but you’ve also got to plan it out right with the timeout,” Raleigh said, according to MLB.com. “… I feel like it’d be cool to do both.”

His father, Todd Raleigh, will pitch to the Mariners star in the Home Run Derby. Cal Raleigh also expressed a hope that his brother, 15-year-old Todd Jr., could serve as the catcher.

No catcher has ever won the Derby, which began in 1985.

Raleigh is one of the finalists for the American League starting catcher spot in the All-Star Game, along with the Toronto Blue Jays‘ Alejandro Kirk.

He will be the eighth Seattle player to compete in the Derby, joining Hall of Famers Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez, along with Jay Buhner, Alex Rodriguez, Bret Boone, Robinson Cano and current teammate Julio Rodriguez. Griffey won the event in 1994, 1998 and 1999, and in 1993, he became the only player to hit the B&O Warehouse at Camden Yards on the fly.

Entering Friday, Raleigh was batting .275 with 69 RBIs, 15 doubles and 47 walks in 79 games.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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