M.L.B. Commissioner Can’t Hear Native Voices Over Atlanta’s Chop

By BY KURT STREETER from NYT Sports Asked about the Atlanta team’s longstanding use of a faux war chant, Rob Manfred claimed Native Americans in the area are “wholly supportive” of it. That’s not what our columnist found.https://nyti.ms/3GAtwpt

Still Chiefs, Kansas City Team Will Retire Its Mascot ‘Warpaint’

By BY EDUARDO MEDINA from NYT Sports The announcement came three days after Cleveland’s baseball team changed its name from Indians to Guardians.https://nyti.ms/2UR8tfs

It’s 2020. Indigenous Team Names in Sports Have to Go.

By BY KURT STREETER from NYT Sports The Chiefs, Braves, Blackhawks and Seminoles need to follow the Cleveland baseball team in dropping their offensive names.https://nyti.ms/3avq95R

For Opponents of Native American Nicknames, 2020 Has Brought Hope

By BY DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports Leaders in the movement to rid sports of such nicknames and the logos that accompany them saw a domino effect building in public schools after two major professional teams made changes. But there are staunch holdouts.https://nyti.ms/3r8w1Yp

For Opponents of Native American Nicknames, 2020 Brought Hope

By BY DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports Leaders in the movement to rid sports of such nicknames and the logos that accompany them saw a domino effect building in public schools after two major professional teams made changes. But there are staunch holdouts.https://nyti.ms/3gZbSzj

The 100-Year Dispute for Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Golds

By BY VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports Thorpe was stripped of his medals in 1912, and named co-champion in 1982. Now, a movement has been renewed to award Thorpe his titles as his own.https://nyti.ms/340Wld7

Kansas City Chiefs Ban Headdresses and Native American-Themed Face Paint at Stadium

By BY MICHAEL LEVENSON from NYT Sports The announcement came just over a month after Washington’s football team announced, under pressure from corporate sponsors, that it would drop its logo and the Redskins name.https://nyti.ms/3l7exZp

In Campaign Against Racism, Team Names Get New Scrutiny

By BY GILLIAN R. BRASSIL, GIULIA MCDONNELL NIETO DEL RIO, BILLY WITZ AND DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports It is not just the N.F.L.’s Washington team that could get a name change. A number of schools are also reconsidering nicknames, though some are resisting any switch.https://nyti.ms/2OffHmE

Amid Pressure, Chicago N.H.L. Team Says It Won’t Change Its Name

By BY DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports After teams in other leagues said they would reconsider their names, the club defended its name by saying it was meant to honor a historic figure.https://nyti.ms/2Cd8S23

Celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chop Divides

By BY JOHN ELIGON from NYT Sports Chiefs fans have relished doing the tomahawk chop since the early 1990s. But to many Native Americans and others, the gesture is an offensive mockery of the nation’s first people.https://nyti.ms/2RB3CKZ

As Cleveland Indians Prepare to Part With Chief Wahoo, Tensions Reignite

By MATT STEVENS and DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports This is the last season the Indians will use the controversial logo on their uniforms, heightening tensions at a protest before the team’s home opener.https://nyti.ms/2H7CkHt

‘Decolonizing’ Roller Derby? Team Indigenous Takes Up the Challenge

By HARRIET CONSTABLE and RACHEL CLARA REED from NYT Sports Meet the roller derby athletes who are “reclaiming” their space, promoting female empowerment and standing up for indigenous people.http://nyti.ms/2tjYalt