– Major League Soccer Baseball Amsterdam Pirates – Honkbal Hoofdklasse (Dutch Baseball League) Pittsburgh Pirates – Major League Baseball Piratas de Campeche – Liga Mexicana de Béisbol (Mexican League) Piratas de Isla de la Juventud – Cuban National Series Basketball Piratas de La Guaira – Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto, Venezuela Piratas de Quebradillas – Baloncesto Superior Nacional, Puerto Rico Wörthersee Piraten – Österreichische Basketball Bundesliga, Austria Ice hockey Portland Pirates – American Hockey League Rugby league Canberra Raiders – National Rugby League, Australia Collegiate Barry University Buccaneers – Sunshine State Conference East Carolina Pirates – American Athletic Conference East Tennessee State Buccaneers – Southern Conference Mass Maritime Buccaneers – Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders – Conference USA Mount Union Purple Raiders – Ohio Athletic Conference Seton Hall Pirates – Big East Conference Southwestern Pirates – NCAA Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference UMass Dartmouth Corsairs – Little East Conference New Orleans Privateers – Southland Conference Minor Hockey Nepean Raiders – Central Junior Hockey League Prince Albert Raiders – Western Hockey League Richmond Renegades – ECHL Rochester Raiders – Great Lakes Indoor Football League Tottenville Pirates Rugby Union Cornish Pirates Pro wrestler Paul Burchill from WWE Friday Night SmackDown dressed like a pirate and claimed that Blackbeard is his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Previously, Carl Ouellet wrestled as Jean-Pierre Lafitte (supposedly a descendant of pirate Jean Lafitte). Kung Fu The music group Ye Banished Privateers recently introduced the sports genre "pirate kung fu" for fans and musicians alike. See also List of space pirates Lego Pirates References External links Arrrr! Pirates invading pop culture, NBC News, May 18, 2007 Mark G. Hanna, A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known., HUMANITIES, Winter 2017, Volume 38, Number 1 Richard R. E. Kania, Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture, Romanian Journal of English Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1 Ben Brotemarkle, Florida Frontiers “Pirates in Florida, Real and Imagined”, Florida Historical Society, 2015 Louis Kemner, Magic: The Gathering - A Whole FLEET of New Pirates Just Arrived, Comic Book Resources, November 8, 2020 Crime in popular culture Maritime folklore Historical fiction Cultural depictions of pirates