On Sunday, The New York Times reported the MLB team will shed the monicker it adopted in 1915, becoming the latest professional to abandon Native American imagery, amid accusations its use is racist. Cleveland’s nickname has long been a thorny issue, with Native American and campaign groups regularly organizing protests outside Progressive Field to urge the franchise to change its name. In 2018, the team dropped Chief Wahoo from their uniforms, stating that the logo was no longer appropriate, and replaced it with a block C....

"One day, the Indians will say goodbye to Wahoo," The Cleveland Plain Dealer writes in an editorial. "It's inevitable. And it's a little unsettling that it hasn't happened by now. Why cling to Wahoo when it so clearly offends?" SPECTOR: The Indians eventually will change their name Like the Washington Redskins' name, the Chief Wahoo logo has been the source of controversy because it is, at best, racially insensitive. The Indians have used the logo in various capacities since 1947, but it really came into prominence when it was added to the team's hats in 1986....

But still, we can't help but read into Alexander's miles-wide smile from a ChicagoHoopsMedia video from over the weekend when asked about how his recruiting with the Jayhawks is going. Just go to the 2:10 mark for the question and answer. The 6-9, 240-pound prospect from Curie Metropolitan in Chicago is believed to be leaning toward Kansas, because his girlfriend, Caelynn Manning-Allen, will be a freshman on the Jayhawks' women's team this winter....

Even Gordon’s biggest rival paid tribute to the four-time champion Tuesday — sort of. MORE: Gibbs, Waltrip need to work together | Vickers ready to return after heart surgery | Busch ticked off at Olbermann Clint Bowyer, who has had a running feud with Gordon since their infamous run-in at Phoenix in 2012, acknowledges what Gordon has meant to the sport. But he also admits that he’s not totally over the 2012 incident, and probably won’t be for a while....

Late this afternoon Hillary Clinton’s staff sent out an ominously titled memo: “Watch What They Do, Not What They Say,” the subject line warned. The email blast was sent to scores of reporters in what can only be an attempt to move downward the double-digit victory margin the media narrative has set for Clinton, who finds herself in the odd position of being cast as a loser even if she technically wins Pennsylvania....

Never for a moment have I doubted that politics was as rough-and-tumble as anything I see on the sporting fields. Still, for all the name-calling and smear tactics of presidential campaigns present and past, never have I witnessed such a low blow as the one inflicted on Hillary Clinton last night. And this one apparently didn’t come from the Obama camp, but from anonymous Democrats, who compared the New York senator to Tonya Harding....

This is to edge ever closer to the substance of the Republican budget while also condemning it in ever-harsher language. The ultimate aim is to reach an agreement with Congress but to do so in such a way that Clinton can claim credit both for balancing the budget and for protecting programs that people don’t want cut (but which will have to be cut). Only someone with Clinton’s indifference toward the truth could even attempt this maneuver....

Clinton said he told Arafat that by turning down the best peace deal he was ever going to get-the one proffered by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and brokered by Clinton last July-the Palestinian leader was only guaranteeing the election of the hawkish Ariel Sharon, the current Israeli leader. But Arafat didn’t listen. Sharon was elected in a landslide Feb. 6 and has gradually escalated his crackdown on the Palestinians despite a shaky ceasefire negotiated two weeks ago by CIA chief George Tenet....

Would the team boycott the game? What type of statement would players make? Would they make a statement at all? The team had a meeting on Saturday morning to discuss options, and while a boycott was briefly considered it was never a real possibility. So how would the team respond as a collective whole? By wearing its warmups inside-out before Sunday's afternoon game in Oakland, Calif. Pictures tell a lot, including the one of the warmup jerseys together at midcourt and the black armbands worn during the game....

It started with Clippers coach Doc Rivers' decision to place banners of his players over reminders of the Lakers' championships. Now, we have Clippers balloons attached to the Magic Johnson statue. No, this is not a joke. Look below. While I'm sure most Laker diehards will view this as blasphemous defacing of Johnson's statues, there are a couple ways to look at the Clippers' decision to place balloons along his outstretched arm....

Toy Fair brimmed with techno-toys, ranging from tiny PDA’s for five-year-olds to baby dolls with enough onboard smarts to mug, cry and whine almost like the real thing. Fueled by “smart-toy” research at places like Intel, Microsoft and MIT, chips and software have crept into everything from toy trains to dollhouses. The result is a new era of toys that are increasingly intelligent–and a new generation of parents who are concerned that these interactive toys rob kids of more traditional fun....

In its report, for example, IBM says that the Internet’s first major commercial use will be business-to-business purchasing; IBM reckons this market to be 10 times larger than the consumer market. From Colgate-Palmolive we learn that in India annual use of toothpaste is only 67 grams per person, compared with a global average of 362 grams; as nations grow richer, their citizens brush more. Johnson & Johnson, the health-products company, reminds us of the rapidity of economic change; last year 35 percent of the company’s sales came from new products of the past five years....

MORE FANTASY BASEBALL: Trade targets: Hitters | Pitchers | Sell-high guys This time, he may have also lost his closer’s job for good. Frieri gave up a walk-off grand slam to Nick Swisher on Thursday to blow the Angels’ 3-1 lead in the 10th inning. To be fair, Frieri was called upon to clean up Cam Bedrosian’s bases-loaded mess. But we can’t overlook the fact that Mike Scioscia turned to Bedrosian, a rookie with a 10....

Members of the Sanders campaign and his supporters demanded an apology from CNN and Smerconish after a segment used the chyron, “Can Either Coronavirus or Bernie Sanders Be Stopped?” Smerconish was also criticized by Sanders backers for not pushing back after Pressley Stutts, Chairman of the Greenville, South Carolina Tea Party, described the 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner as a “communist.” Sanders campaign national co-chairman Nina Turner later confronted CNN on-the-air during host Ana Cabrera’s program, ridiculing both the chyron and the classification of Sanders as a communist....

Video posted on Twitter by fellow CNN reporter Will Ripley shows freelance worker Chermaine Lee receiving treatment while wearing a CNN branded helmet. Images show police appearing to hit other journalists covering the protests with pepper spray. “Hong Kong police have just fired pepper spray into a crowd that is assembled in Causeway Bay,” Ripley tweeted. “Journalist @chermainelee22 who is on our @CNN team, was hit. I know from experience, it feels absolutely dreadful....

Limbaugh, the longtime conservative and controversial talk radio host, told his audience last Monday about his diagnosis. President Donald Trump awarded Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at his State of the Union address Tuesday, prompting angry rebuke from critics saying Limbaugh’s past is littered with sexist and racist right-wing remarks. Stelter’s Reliable Sources panel on Sunday addressed the cynical and often pernicious opinions espoused on social media platforms like Twitter in a country that is so widely divided along partisan lines....

Once reserved for J.K. Rowling’s characters on flying broomsticks, college students are able to join quidditch teams on campuses nationwide. A combination of rugby, dodgeball and tag, quidditch is an immensely physical sport involving seven players per team, each attempting to score more points than their opponents. The inherent characteristic of teams being mixed-gender is one that some consider instrumental in players being valued for their skill, regardless of body type....

Less than 24 hours after Kansas beat North Carolina to win the national championship on Monday, former Duke star Jay Williams suggested legendary Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski – who coached his final game in the Final Four on Saturday in a loss to North Carolina – may want to come back to coach again in 2022. The speculation isn’t based on anything concrete, but Williams believes Duke losing assistant coach Nolan Smith to Louisville after Coach K’s departure may galvanize him to return for another year....

It has been a nearly week since McMurphy expanded on the story by sharing text messages that had been passed onto him by Smith’s ex-wife, Courtney Smith — messages that suggested Ohio State coach Urban Meyer was aware of Courtney’s allegations. It took Meyer 10 days from the initial report to publicly declare he did know there were issues — though he insists he followed “proper reporting protocols and procedures” in making Ohio State officials aware....