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The Triple Option: Team Names Are Silly. Mascots Are Sillier. So Why Fret?

It’s Thursday! I took a day off work to celebrate my youngest son’s sixth birthday and I’m getting some SERIOUS MONDAY VIBES now.

Here are four stories you should definitely read today:

THE MERCIFUL END OF THE MASCOT WARS?

I’m not sure who introduced me to Michael Weinreb’s newsletter, but I gravitate toward sports stories that offer a historical perspective that can’t be found with a simple Google search. Weinreb’s piece today is about our attachment to team names and, by extension, mascots and I caught myself nodding along while reading it today.