The Game Is the Name

Title:
The Game Is the Name
Word Count:
1404

Summary:
Sports is best when it is viewed for what it is, which is sports. It’s not politics and it sho

Keywords:
sports mascot, mascot, NCAA mascot policy, NCAA mascot rules, politically correct, political c

Article Body:
Shakespeare could wax poetic about ’What’s in a Name?’ because he didn’t have to contend with

It’s the politically-correct issue in America that refuses to subside. I consider myself to be

A quick check of Webster’s Twentieth Century Unabridged Dictionary defines ’mascot’ as ’any pe

One of the earliest attempts at humor in mascot-anointing was made by the Brooklyn nine of bas

Ironically, that drift toward the whimsical --- probably intended to portray sports in its pro

The social upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s were certainly justified, in my view. Civil

Personally, I’ve always thought the issue had as much relevance to their legitimate concerns a

Think about it. Native Americans aren’t alone in being designated as mascots. In accordance wi

Don’t even try to broach the ’caricature’ argument as a reason why the Native American situati

Cleveland’s baseball team sorted through a number of mascots in their early days. ’Spiders’ ju
Yes, the team uses a caricature of a Native American as its logo now. In fact, Chief Wahoo is

There are many more examples. I simply don’t see Native Americans being unduly isolated in thi

The Washington Redskins originated in Boston, home of baseball’s Red Sox and Braves in the 193

The point here is that the Redskins name wasn’t derived as a slur, but as a facilitation to di

My impression, then, remains that the mascot controversy has its sole value in the publicity i
The matter isn’t going away anytime soon. Now the NCAA --- college sports’ governing body --Mascots, no matter how commercialized, are still nothing more than whimsical symbols. Society


Nowhere in the country do such topics remain in a lighthearted perspective more than in Orofin
No one protests, unless the teams don’t play hard.

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