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The Indianapolis Indians are a minor league baseball team, a farm team of the Pittsburgh Pirates. So with all the talk about team mascots with American Indian names, this of course becomes an issue. The Indians of Indianapolis have decided, for now anyway, to retain the name, and they’ve made a deal with an Indiana […]
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The 2022 Olympic Winter Games were just held from February 4-20, in and around Beijing, China. Norway was the winner, garnering more medals overall (37) and more gold medals (16) than any other national team. In second place was Germany with 12 gold medals and 27 medals in total. Third place was host China, with […]
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Puerto Rico is an autonomous U.S. territory and it has its own Olympic team. At the so-called 2020 Olympics (actually held in 2021) in Japan, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won the gold medal in the 100 meter hurdles. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published August 11th, 2021, on VDARE.COM.
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Oklahoma University is the biggest university in Oklahoma (with the state’s most famous football team). But what’s the state of freedom of speech at Oklahoma University? To read the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published July 13th, 2021, on VDARE.COM.
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The NFL wants you to know that it’s totally woke now. Colin Kaepernick started this kneeling thing four years ago and now it’s taken over the league, although Kaepernick himself is out. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published September 21st, 2020 on US Incorporated.
Activists who oppose American Indian sports mascots and team names have their work cut out for them, because they are also being used across the pond in Britain and Europe. The New York Times had an article about it. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published September 17, 2018, […]
The World Cup is the world’s biggest sports competition, watched by more viewers than the Olympics. Like the Olympics, the World Cup is held every four years (but not the same year). The latest Olympic Games were held in 2016. This year,2018. the World Cup was held in Russia. The World Cup is a big […]
Mexico had a team at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. There were four skiers on the Mexican team. In many ways though, the Mexican team was not really very Mexican. Only two were born in Mexico, only two speak Spanish, only one currently resides in Mexico. And yet, they were very proud to compete for Mexico. […]
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The 2018 Winter Olympics was held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Mexico has participated in a number of Winter Olympics through the years, and this time had four skiers competing. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published March 12th, 2018, on Mexidata.info.