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			    <title>Washington Redskins | NFC East | NFL | Juiced Sports News</title> 
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			<title>Fans buy items on RG III&#039;s wedding registry</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/fans-buy-items-on-rg-iiis-wedding-registry</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Robert Griffin III&#039;s immense fan base is showing their appreciation for the Washington Redskins quarterback by purchasing many of the items he and his fiance have listed on their wedding registry.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>May 16, The Washington Redskins Reignite Their Name Controversy</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/may-16-the-washington-redskins-reignite-their-name-controversy</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Washington Redskins now have a reignited controversy over their team name with no solution in sight.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 02:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Snyder: Redskins will &#039;never&#039; change name</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/snyder-redskins-will-never-change-name</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder told USA Today the team&#039;s name will not change. &quot;We will never change the name of the team,&quot; Snyder told USA Today in an interview this week.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>What the Washington Redskins Could Learn from a Game Named Starcoon</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/what-the-washington-redskins-could-learn-from-a-game-named-starcoon</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If I learned anything this past week, it&#039;s that some people will find any context in which an ethnic slur is not an ethnic slur, or will find some justification for its use, from the name of a video game to that of a football team.
Really, the reactions were almost swappable. In Washington, rumblings that the Redskins might relocate to a stadium in the city limits sparked a city councilman&#039;s call for the team to reconsider its nickname of obviously racist origin—and the usual backlash against it. In video games, a student project out of the Netherlands billed itself as &quot;Starcoon,&quot; borne of an understandable language disconnect but one that still invoked a top-five racial slur in the company of &quot;spade,&quot; &quot;spook,&quot; and the big N.
&quot;Starcoon,&quot; however, changed its name, recognizing the embarrassment it would inevitably suffer if the game became a success in an English-speaking country. Yes, right, the protagonist of the platformer is a raccoon. Unless the truncated word is preceded by &quot;Maine&quot; or followed by &quot;hound&quot; you will have a problem on this side of the Atlantic, and in this case, it sounded like a ridiculous sci-fi blaxploitation film starring Bull Connor as the villain. Wisely, the creators bailed on the original name, rebranding it as Curio&#039;s Starquest.
The reaction was depressingly predictable. We&#039;re told all the time that the average age of gamers is getting older, but their emotional maturity and concept of life in a pluralist society seems to be stuck somewhere around the freshman year of high school. On average, it&#039;s a demographic no more sophisticated than meathead sports fans. &quot;Ever wonder why racial slurs for white people never caught on?&quot; said this commenter in one of our posts on &quot;Starcoon.&quot; 
No. Please, enlighten us.
&quot;Because white people have higher self esteem in regards to their racial identity.&quot; 
Yes, that&#039;s it. After everything they&#039;ve gone through, for all for which they have stood, and suffered, ethnic minorities are simply insecure. Once they get over that, hey, racial equality. 
No, racial slurs against white people never caught on here because white people, through the laws, textbooks and periodicals they largely control, have a demonstrable, centuries-long head start on deciding what words get used, and how.
One of those uses is in professional sports, where white people have such &quot;higher self esteem&quot; that thousands identify themselves, as fans of Washington&#039;s football team (or of other teams in high school), with a straight-up ethnic slur.
&quot;Redskin nation.&quot; &quot;Redskin pride.&quot; They smear on warpaint and wear headdresses and go to the games. Then, when someone points out how childish all this is, the official newspaper of white people writes a hoary defense of the right to use the word, a vortex of circular logic that reads like an email from your grandfather with FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD: in the subject header.
It doesn&#039;t matter if the entirety of an ethnic minority is or isn&#039;t offended by a word and it doesn&#039;t matter if you knew a black guy or a native american who has no problem with it. Good for him, though I doubt he actually exists.
It doesn&#039;t matter if a majority in a poll say they&#039;re fine with the name, and it doesn&#039;t matter that the word is inoffensive if it describes peanuts or potatoes. And &quot;political correctness,&quot; the &quot;liberal media,&quot; and every horseshit straw man you construct has nothing to say here.
What matters is that a billion-dollar business and its loyal consumers, in the year 2013, identify themselves with an insult. It matters that a term of derision, inferiority and hatred is being directed at the product on the field—by those who sell it and buy it. How is it different from &quot;Washington Shitheads?&quot; How is it even dignified?
That is why &quot;Starcoon&quot; changed its name. That is why the Washington Redskins should change theirs.
Stick Jockey is Kotaku&#039;s column on sports and video games. It appears Sundays.
To contact the author of this post, write to owen@kotaku.com or find him on Twitter @owengood.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 18:30:01 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>This Editorial Defending The Redskins Name Is Just So Goddamn Dumb</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/this-editorial-defending-the-redskins-name-is-just-so-goddamn-dumb</link>
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The Washington Times decided to publish an editorial titled &quot;Hail to the Redtails?&quot; in which some moron tries to argue that changing the name of the Washington Redskins is a bad idea. It contains two of the dumbest sentences in the history of written language.
The editorial was written in response to D.C. city councilman David Grosso&#039;s plan to introduce a resolution that would demand that the Redskins change their name to the Washington Redtails, in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen. It contains this sentence:

But if “Redskins” demeans Indians, why wouldn’t “Redtails” demean fighter pilots?

Buh? I don&#039;t...what? I don&#039;t even think Sarah Lee from Osceola, Ind., would be on board with that sentiment.
And then, we get hit with this:

Mr. Grosso might not know that Redskins, as they have been called for 80 years, was actually adopted to honor its second coach, Lone Star Dietz, who was descended from American Indians, before “Indians” became “Native Americans” (which is what most of us are).

God, that sentence is just deliciously stupid. It&#039;s really quite perfect, the way the stupidity slowly builds before crescendoing with that parenthetical that hits you like a sledgehammer of idiocy. It&#039;s the moron&#039;s answer to the final line of The Great Gatsby. 
h/t Steinberg]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 18:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>US poll finds widespread support for Redskins name (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/us-poll-finds-widespread-support-for-redskins-name-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) -- It&#039;s been a rough offseason for the Washington Redskins, and not just because of the knee injury to star quarterback Robert Griffin III.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>D.C. pol pitches name change to &#039;Redtails&#039;</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/dc-pol-pitches-name-change-to-redtails</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A member of the Washington D.C. Council said he plans to submit a resolution calling on the Washington Redskins to change their nickname because it is &quot;racist and derogatory&quot; and &quot;it&#039;s time to make a change.&quot;]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 10:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Redskins-Eagles to open MNF doubleheader</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/redskinseagles-to-open-mnf-doubleheader</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The new-look Philadelphia Eagles will travel to face the NFC East rival Washington Redskins in the first game of ESPN&#039;s season-opening &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; doubleheader on Sept. 9.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>RG III&#039;s jersey is top seller, sets NFL mark</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/rg-iiis-jersey-is-top-seller-sets-nfl-mark</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III not only ended the year with the best selling jersey in the league, more of his No. 10 jerseys were sold in the NFL this fiscal year than any jersey in league history.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:30:01 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Redskins bring back Rex Grossman, add Pat White (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/redskins-bring-back-rex-grossman-add-pat-white-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ASHBURN, Va. (AP) -- The Washington Redskins are bringing back Rex Grossman and giving Pat White another chance at the NFL.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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