Sports
Marlins’ outbreak of COVID-19 blamed on ‘false sense of security’
Infected were 21 members of the traveling party, including at least 18 players. None is seriously ill, Jeter said, and he expects all to return this season.
August 4, 2020
The Scorecard: Introducing the Cleveland Guardians baseball team
July 23, 2021The day many Native American and Indigenous baseball fans have been waiting for—fighting for—finally arrived.
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Olympic sized Covid problems for Japan ahead of the Summer Games
May 24, 2021Over 80 percent of the Japanese population wants the games cancelled.
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Black coordinators establish Super Bowl history in Tampa Bay
February 2, 2021Diversity matters to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the first team to reach the Super Bowl with a trio of Black assistant coaches serving as coordinators.
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Major league baseball integrated in 1947, now it’ll integrate its record book
December 18, 2020This newspaper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, and the Black press led the campaign for integrating white major and minor league baseball.
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Baseball rewrites history, says Negro Leagues now a major league
December 17, 2020“It is MLB’s view that the Committee’s 1969 omission of the Negro Leagues from consideration was clearly an error that demands today’s designation,” the league said in a statement.
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