Shooter nixed

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. Mass shootings across the U.S. have prompted Marist College in New York to drop Shooter as the nickname for its sports mascot.

The Poughkeepsie Journal reports that Marist College has decided on Frankie as the new name for the costumed mascot for its Red Foxes men’s and women’s basketball teams after last month’s mass shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas.

Frankie, a nod to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was born in nearby Hyde Park.