Snatching Little League team’s title is a lousy move
To paraphrase the ESPN “30 for 30” sports documentary opening: “What if I told you that a sport based on lying, cheating and rule bending worked perfectly fine as long…
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Deposed Little League team gears up for ‘one more battle’
Little League International announced Wednesday that it was vacating all of the Jackie Robinson West squad’s wins from last year’s tournament, including from the Great Lakes regionals and U.S. championship,…
America Mourns For The Players Of Jackie Robinson West And Their Lost Little League Championship
People across the U.S. were mourning for the the children of the Jackie Robinson West Little League team, who were stripped of their hard-fought 2014 U.S. championship title because of…
U.S. Little League champs lose title for using ineligible players
Little League International announced Wednesday that it is vacating all of the Jackie Robinson West squad’s wins from last year’s tournament, including from the Great Lakes regionals and U.S. championship,…
Jackie Robinson West Stripped Of 2014 Little League Championship Title For Using Ineligible Players
The Jackie Robinson West Little League baseball team’s 2014 wins have been vacated, according to an ESPN tweet published Wednesday morning. Little League Baseball had been investigating whether the Chicago-based…
Charlie Sifford, First Black Player on PGA Tour, Dies at 92
Charlie Sifford, who broke pro golf’s racial barrier as the first black player in a PGA Tour event and became the first black in the World Golf Hall of Fame,…
2 holdout UVA fraternities sign on to new party rules, but blame ‘coercion’
In the article, a then-first-year named Jackie described a brutal gang rape by seven members of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at UVA in September 2012, but the Charlottesville police have…
UVA reinstates fraternity after police can’t find evidence of Rolling Stone rape claims
The decision came after Charlottesville police told UVA “that their investigation has not revealed any substantive basis to confirm that the allegations raised in the Rolling Stone article occurred at…