CBBear, man you are a scholar. I know you all are gonna hate me when I point it out, but I've since checked it out over many sports, and it works.
CB, your thinking is deep, and analytical.
Remember, I'm a long Connecticut Yankee in a Kalifornia court (Carmel). From a family of research engineers. I am the only one who escaped to Kalifornia. My Dad, also a UCONN Alum (Got his Masters in Mech Engineering back in ??? and for baby-sitting purposes I often made the drive with him from Bristol at night while he went to class and waited in the car.) He became Head of Bearing Research at Torrington Co (later Ingersoll Rand).
Very strong thinkers, but not so the Kalifornia way.
And this riddle came out of nowhere and then I started running it down for a few years. It is real, and can be checked in a minute for any player in any sport. But it struck me that Mallory was so much like Crystal and then I checked them out, and Viola!
True there and so I made it a passion to see how far it went.
But it truly takes Kalifornia thinking to get there. And that is a compliment to Connecticut thinking, not the other way around.
As I have related on the Boneyard before, when in California, any time I find someone in business or elsewhere who is efficient and thorough, I never hesitate to ask them what part of the East Coast they were from.
Only one time, they were from California.
I often quote what Mark Twain said when asked how California got populated: "God took the USA and tilted it toward California. And what wasn't screwed down rolled down into California."
Being Native CT, I can report that there are a LOT of loose screws in California. As we speak!
So CB, think like a loose screw and please do NOT hang me after this easy way to tell a tiger on the field might be there, after all.