TEWKSBURY — When it comes to playoff hockey, success is built on strong defense, solid goaltending and exceptional teams play. On Monday night, before a crowd of around 1,000, the Tewksbury High boys ...

The Killingly Board of Education has voted to reinstate the controversial Redmen mascot for the high school. The issue has divided the community for months. Wednesday’s meeting grew heated as board ...

I write and blog exclusively about team nickname and mascot histories (https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/9003004-table-of-contents), so I carefully follow ...

Tomas Jirousek is a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy, a group of Indigenous tribes in western Canada. About 25 percent of his hometown of Whitehorse, Yukon is Indigenous. But when Jirousek first ...

After Natick football's crushing loss to Wellesley in 1985, the Redmen faced undefeated Walpole. 'It felt good to be an ...

There has been a disagreement for years among people in Killingly about whether the school’s former mascot, a depiction of a Plains Indian and the name Redmen, amounts to a racial slur. It was hard to ...

(CNN) — Less than a year after voting to remove the name of a school mascot that some found racist, the school board of a small Connecticut town has voted to reinstate it. The Redmen, who became the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Killingly — Killingly High School will unveil its next mascot by the end of the school year, district leaders said Thursday.

Connecticut school board members decided to reinstate the original name of a local high school's mascot despite complaints from the community and a tribal government office that it is offensive to ...