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FedEx Corporation, a delivery service that holds the naming rights to the stadium in which the Washington Redskins play, made a request on Thursday evening asking the team to change its nickname. “We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name,” FedEx said
The Erie SeaWolves, Double-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, will play a game in 2021 as the Wonders, an homage to the 25th anniversary of the movie That Thing You Do! The nickname comes from the name of a fictitious rock band from Erie, Pennsylvania, featured in the movie, initially
When COVID-19 restrictions gave them lemons, the Lansing Lugnuts made the Lemonade League. In the absence of affiliated Minor League Baseball in 2020, the Single-A Lugnuts will host a self-contained wood bat league in July and August at their ballpark, Cooley Law School Stadium. The league, which will feature seven-inning
The University of Memphis football team will wear helmet stickers this fall in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, head coach Ryan Silverfield announced on Tuesday evening. “The use of the ‘BLM’ logo on a helmet decal was an idea from our student-athletes,” Silverfield told The Commercial Appeal. “It doesn’t
What’s the Summer equivalent of baseball’s Spring Training? A question we never thought we’d need an answer to until we entered the Upside Down. The official name has been announced as 2020 MLB Summer Camp presented by Camping World. Based on the feedback my Tweet announcing this news garnered, many
Citing a lack of marketing benefits and financial difficulties associated with coronavirus outbreak, Under Armour recently announced plans to terminate lucrative apparel contracts with the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles. “We have been paying for marketing benefits that we have not received for an
If/when the National Hockey League returns next month, 16 of the 24 remaining teams will be thrown into the Stanley Cup Qualifiers, a playoff round invented due to the sudden end of the 2019-20 regular season. The Stanley Cup Qualifiers are basically meant to simulate the remainder of the season.
The U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg comprises more than 250 square miles in central North Carolina and is one of the largest military installations in the world. The fifth largest city in the state of North Carolina, Fayetteville, sits adjacent to the fort and reflects a culture that is heavily influenced
When the 2019-20 National Basketball Association season resumes next month, players will have the option to include a statement about social justice on their jerseys. This according to a Tweet made by The Athletic’s Shams Charania late Saturday night. It’s a fairly similar idea to what Conrad Burry had shared
The National Women’s Soccer League will begin to play this weekend in the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup. The 23-game tournament will see eight of the nine clubs compete in and conclude with the championship game at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah. The beginning of the season will also feature multiple
The longstanding rivalry between the Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers will no longer be referred to as the Civil War, the universities announced in a joint statement on Friday afternoon. “Changing this name is overdue as it represents a connection to a war fought to perpetuate slavery,” Oregon State
The Oak View Group, NHL Seattle, and Amazon today announced that the home arena of the expansion Seattle hockey team will be known as Climate Pledge Arena when they take the ice in the fall of 2021. The arena is named after Amazon’s commitment to meet the Paris Agreement by
