William Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” The King James Bible declares, “A good name is better than precious ointment.” W.C. Fields said, “It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” In the world of sports, names mean plenty. They conjure rivalries and the spirit of competition. Names serve to identify you,…
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“[The Redskins name] receives the most public attention due to the name itself being defined as derogatory or insulting in modern dictionaries,” says Wikipedia. Controversy over Washington, D.C.’s NFL team name has been building in recent years. The term hearkens not only to a noble people, but to a past where early American settlers took scalps and skins of indigenous…