One of Ohio’s most vocal protesters against the Cleveland Indians Chief Wahoo mascot has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $77,000 in federal funds meant to benefit Native Americans, a report says.
The Major League Baseball Hall of Fame will no longer allow Chief Wahoo, the longtime logo of the Cleveland Indians, to be displayed on Hall of Fame plaques.
Cleveland Indians Pitcher and noted Trump supporter Trevor Bauer, recently took to Twitter to accuse Major League Baseball of hypocrisy for encouraging players to speak out politically, while also trying to specifically censor him from sharing his views.
It took a few decades, but Major League Baseball eventually succeeded in forcing the Cleveland Indians to retire their “Chief Wahoo” logo.
During a Tuesday ESPN “First Take” debate about the Cleveland Indians removing their mascot, Chief Wahoo, from their uniforms, co-host Max Kellerman called on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to follow suit with their “pernicious” mascot because a minority in the group
A columnist for Sporting News is running a victory lap over the decision by the Cleveland Indians to put an end to its use of the decades-old Chief Wahoo mascot saying that only white racists will miss the satiric Indian figure.
Monday was a big day for activist groups working to end the practice of using Native American nicknames for sports teams.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Divisive and hotly debated, the Chief Wahoo logo is being removed from the Cleveland Indians’ uniform next year.
Liberals thought Indians Pitcher Trevor Bauer’s support for President Donald Trump was a root cause for his bad performance during Monday’s American League Championship Series game between Cleveland and the New York Yankees.
The chance of a baseball team winning four straight games by at least 9 runs stands at one in 1.9 million (or 0.00005%), but the Houston Astros did it this final week of September. The chance of a team winning 22 straight games is one in 4.2 million (0.00002%) but the Indians concluded that streak in September.
CLEVELAND (AP) — The pregame ceremony was brief, appropriate for the occasion. The Cleveland Indians are planning much bigger parties. On Sunday, the team that couldn’t lose for a few weeks raised a red flag to commemorate winning their second straight AL Central title, one of their goals at the start of 2016.
CLEVELAND (AP) – For more than 100 years, American League teams have gone on winning streaks of varying lengths – short ones, long ones, double-digit ones.
The Cleveland Indians have been having quite a season. Yet, despite winning an amazing 19 games in a row, the sports media cannot help themselves, from ruining all the fun by bringing Chief Wahoo, the team’s 70-year-old “racist” logo.
Last year, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that he intended to speak with Cleveland Indians ownership about their use of the Chief Wahoo logo. Manfred then said that he had spoken to the Indians brass, and he called those meetings “productive.”
It hasn’t been a great year for the San Francisco Giants. After winning the World Series every even year since 2010. The baseball Giants find themselves 22 games under .500 and 29.5 games out of first.
In a temporary win for political correctness the Cleveland Indians and parent company, Rogers Communications lost an interim decision to throw out a discrimination claim alleging that the team’s mascot “Chief Wahoo” and their logo are offensive and discriminatory.
Chief Wahoo’s days appear to be numbered.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has spoken for quite some time of his desire to talk with the Cleveland Indians about their controversial Chief Wahoo logo. He has never drawn a real line in the sand, revealing his personal position on the matter, until now.
Friday, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that the league is looking into the controversial Cleveland Indians Chief Wahoo logo, adding they will be “responsive” to concerns. Host Ryan Smith asked Manfred if the MLB would consider
With one tweet, Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Trevor Bauer stirred up Twitter users Thursday.
Baseball’s commissioner has hinted that he may be preparing to try and force the owner of the Cleveland Indians to eliminate the team’s decades old Chief Wahoo logo.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 22 (UPI) — The World Series runner-up Cleveland Indians aren’t waiting until October to throw its best pitch.
The Cleveland Indians continue their collective bow to political correctness, launching a new phase in their quest to phase out their Chief Wahoo logo.
Whenever the unstoppable force and the immovable object collide, drama ensues. Wednesday night, that clash happens in Game Seven of the World Series.
“Buy the ticket, take the ride,” Hunter S. Thompson tells us in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. That ticket might cost you more than tuition at an Ivy League school if you plan on watching Wednesday’s seventh game of the World Series between the Cubs and the Indians at Progressive Field in Cleveland.
Appearing on the Mike & Mike sports radio program, MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred said that he plans on meeting with Cleveland Indians ownership to discuss the team’s use of Chief Wahoo as their logo.
A Mission Viejo High School grad predicted in 1993 that the Chicago Cubs would win to the World Series in 2016.
Last night Indians starter Corey Kluber devastated the Cubs lineup, mowing down batters with reckless abandon and setting a World Series strikeout record for the first three innings. Kluber, along with the rest of the Indians staff, treated runners in scoring position with a particular ferocity.
Every now and again, life must imitate art. Such as the case with this year’s storybook World Series contest, featuring two teams with the longest championship droughts in sports, which could soon take a very Hollywood turn.
Just when you thought 2016 couldn’t get any weirder, the Cleveland Indians won the ALCS on their way to the World Series. Also true to format for both 2016 and the Indians, it came complete with major oddities.
Ronnie Lott, the former NFL safety who once had a portion of his left pinkie finger removed to avoid an extended rehab, might have some company at the top of the list for all-time warrior moves in the history of sports.
The Indians won in court. Then they won on the ball field.
Even as the American League Championship Series is being played in Toronto, Canada, Indian activist Douglas Cardinal filed suit in a Canadian court to force a country-wide ban on the Cleveland Indians name and their decades-old Chief Wahoo logo.
As the Toronto Blue Jays head to Cleveland for Games 1 and 2 of the American League Championship Series (ALCS), one announcer is refusing to say the team’s name on air.
Pedro Martinez congratulated the Cleveland Indians for sweeping his former club in the ALDS on Monday night. The fun police quickly went on the war path.
Cleveland Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis did not want the same fate as Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista when dealing with Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor. On Thursday, Odor slid into Kipnis while cleanly trying to break up
Cleveland Indians rookie center fielder Tyler Naquin accomplished something rarely seen in a big league game Friday. Just after teammate Jose Ramirez tied up the game 2-2 on a solo shot, Naquin sent a deep fly ball to right field
ESPN “Highly Questionable” co-host Bomani Jones wore a shirt guest co-hosting ESPN Radio’s “Mike & Mike” Thursday that he said he hopes may spark some “introspection.” The shirt features the Cleveland Indians Chief Wahoo logo, but instead of saying “Indians,” it says “Caucasians.” “To have
The tribe has spoken. So has its chief.
Cleveland Indians players and coaches shaved their heads in a show of support for teammate Mike Aviles’ daughter, who suffers from leukemia and prepares to undergo chemotherapy.
