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City of Brotherly Love: Flyers Fans Pelt Injured Caps Player

They booed Santa Claus, cheered Michael Irvin’s career-ending injury, and chucked batteries at J.D. Drew. So, Philadelphia fans tossing wristbands on the ice at the Wells Fargo Center Monday night fails to make the top-ten (bottom-ten?) list of bad behavior among sports spectators in the Quaker City.

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Pistons Coach: Move All-Star Game Because NC Transgender Bathroom Law

Detroit Pistons president and head coach Stan Van Gundy says the NBA should move next year’s All-Star Game from Charlotte because of a North Carolina law that prohibits people of the sex not corresponding to the designation on a multiperson public bathroom from using such a facility in a government building.

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Philadelphia Apologizes to Four-Decades Dead Jackie Robinson

The Philadelphia city council apologized to Jackie Robinson 69 years after the player who broke baseball’s color line endured vicious abuse in the city. Being dead for 43 years, five months, and a week, Robinson gave no indication whether he accepted the apology or not.

American baseball player Jackie Robinson (1919 - 1972) grounds a ball at first place while

Conor McGregor-Nate Diaz II to Headline UFC 200

Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz officially headline the UFC’s annual summer blockbuster in a rematch at welterweight. Diaz submitted the fan and betting favorite at in round two of the UFC 196 main event.

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Baseball Game Shows Obama, Castro Precisely What’s Missing in Cuba

The Tampa Bay Rays play the Cuban National Team on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in an exhibition game in Latinoamericano Stadium in Havana. Maybe next year the Cuban government permits their baseball team to travel to Tropicana Field in St. Pete to even this up as a home-and-home series. It would save fuel costs for a return trip, after all, and Cuba, like its army of prostitutes, really, really needs the money.

Fidel Castro Baseball

Chicago Bans Chewing Tobacco at MLB Parks

Just because they play a kids’ game doesn’t make it right to treat professional baseball players like children. That’s the take of several Chicago Cubs on the new ordinance banning the use of tobacco products at baseball parks in the Windy City.

Nelson Fox of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Don Zimmer of the Chicago White Sox chewing tobacco

NFL Embraces Junk Science in Linking CTE to Football in Absence of Single Study

A representative from the NFL told a congressional committee on Monday that a link “certainly” exists between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Scores of medical journal articles insist that science attempting to establish such a link through a study, let alone proving one, remains a project for the future to embark upon.

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