Cleveland baseball team owner: Name won’t change in 2021
The Cleveland Indians are changing their name — they just don’t know to what or when.
Expressing that “it’s time,” owner Paul Dolan said that after months of internal discussions and meetings with groups, including Native Americans who have sought to have the team stop using a moniker many deem racist, the American League franchise is dropping the name it has been known by since 1915.
In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Dolan said: “The name is no longer acceptable in our world.”
College football
WASHINGTON PULLS OUT OF PAC-12 TITLE GAME, REPLACED BY DUCKS » Washington has pulled out of the Pac-12 football championship game due to COVID-19 issues in the Huskies program, and Oregon will now play No. 13 USC for the conference title on Friday instead.
Washington (3-1) announced it is withdrawing from the championship game after determining the Huskies did not have at least 53 scholarship players available and did not meet the minimum number of scholarship athletes at specific positions.
Women’s college basketball S TA N F OR D COACH VANDERVEER TIES SUMMITT’S RECORD FOR WINS »
Tara VanDerveer told Francesca Belibi she will remember this moment forever.
For Belibi’s first career dunk, not the latest milestone on a long list of them for VanDerveer.
The longtime Stanford coach tied the late Pat Summitt as winningest women’s coach in NCAA Division I basketball history with 1,098 on Sunday night as the top-ranked Cardinal beat rival California 83-38. TOURNAMENT TO PLAYED AT ONE SITE, EYES ON TEXAS » The NCAA announced Monday that San Antonio is the likely host site for the 64-team women’s NCAA tournament next March. The move was made to help mitigate the risks of COVID-19 and matches that of the men’s tournament, which the NCAA said last month will also be played in a single area — most likely Indianapolis.
San Antonio was already the site of the 2021 Final Four. The NCAA has now begun talks with the city on hosting the whole thing and the organization hopes to have plans finalized by the end of January at the latest. It is likely that the NCAA could play games as far away as Austin because of the need for hotels as well as practice and game venues for 64 teams.
The first two rounds of the women’s tournament have been played on campus sites the past few seasons with the top four seeds in each region hosting. The regionals were slated to be played this season in Albany, New York, Austin, Texas, Cincinnati and Spokane, Washington. STANFORD STAYS NO. 1 IN AP POLL » Stanford remained atop The Associated Press women’s basketball poll released Monday and picked up first-place votes, too.
It was the second consecutive week that the Cardinal were the top team in the poll. Stanford received 26 of the 30 first- place votes from a national media panel.