A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is “disparaging of Native Americans” and that the team’s trademark protections should be canceled.
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We are staying in a quaint pousada 25 miles north of Natal, right on the beach. We took in a good Brazilian breakfast with juices, fruits, fresh breads, eggs and cheeses, and then hopped a rickety local bus with guys from Reno and San Francisco we’d met at check-in. We took it too deep into the city, not knowing exactly where we should’ve gotten off it as we sought the official U.S. soccer pre-party. A long cab ride later, we arrived and there were black suits and ties to greet us and allow us entry upon finding my reservation on an iPad. They chose not to advertise it as a U.S. party, instead marking the building with a red, white, and blue banner scribed with “Uma Nacao, Uma Equipe” (One Nation, One Team).
Mayor Eric Garcetti used the F-bomb in declaring it a big day for LA, bringing 19,000 hockey fans to their feet, lighting up the Twitterverse in delight and, oh yeah, leaving some folks scratching their heads, wondering just what the heck the normally soft-spoken elected official was thinking.
A father attending the Rockies-Giants game on Father’s Day pulled off an incredible one-handed home run catch, but it wasn’t just any one-handed home run catch — he did it all while holding his 1-year-old son in his other arm.
Tony Gwynn, the Hall of Famer with a sweet left-handed swing who spent his entire 20-year career with the Padres and was one of San Diego’s most beloved athletes, died of cancer Monday. He was 54.
Death by giant snakes, malarial mosquitoes or drug-addled, knife-wielding thieves: If the barrage of blood-soaked headlines in the British tabloids is to be believed, that’s what awaits soccer fans travelling to the most exotic of Brazil’s World Cup host cities, the Amazonian metropolis of Manaus.