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By NFL standards, the town in which this team's stadium resides is pretty small at a puny 22,000 or so people. From 1997-1999, the area around its stadium went by Raljon, named for the longtime owner's two children, but its original name was then restored under his successor. Fittingly, the franchise's original nickname is no longer but it remains the name of a team in another major professional sport in the US. Name the current franchise nickname.

Commanders

Basketball

Since 1960, there have been five cases where the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament (Division 1) came from a team that failed to win the championship. Those years were: 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, and 1983. Three of the players went on to become NBA champions, one of whom is arguably more famous today for his post-basketball career. Name any two of the players.
 

For additional help, here are the championship teams from those years, which, again, did not include the MOP: Cincinnati ('61), Loyola-Chicago ('63), UCLA ('65), Texas Western ('66), N.C. State ('83).
 

(Note: The 1971 award originally went to Howard Porter of Villanova, which lost to UCLA, but was later vacated due to Porter's ineligibility; for the purposes of this question, that will not count as a correct answer.)

Jerry Lucas, Art Heyman, Bill Bradley, Jerry Chambers, Akeem Olajuwon

Soccer

Nicknamed “El Pibe” (the kid), which player is third among most-capped players for the Colombian national team? He scored exactly one goal in the World Cup, against the United Arab Emirates in 1990.

Carlos Valderrama