So the baseball team formerly known as the Cleveland Indians has changed its name.
Meet the Cleveland Guardians. Whatever.
Makes you wonder how long until the Atlanta Braves follow suit, considering Cleveland's decision followed the National Football League organization that is now just called the Washington Football Team.
So is "Major League" now the sports movie version of "Gone With the Wind?"
Changing of the guard
There was a time when celebrities who tripped over their tongues or put their careers in jeopardy with a public mistake would run to Barbara Walters to shed a few tears and offer a few mea culpas on national TV.
Oprah Winfrey inherited that role, and now it appears Michael Strahan on "Good Morning America" has taken the mantle.
Morgan Wallen, the disgraced country music star who was caught saying the worst of racial slurs, joined Strahan on Friday in his first interview since the Feb. 2 incident.
"I was around some of my friends, and you know, we say dumb stuff together," he said. "In our minds, it's playful that sounds ignorant, but that's really where it came from. And it's wrong."
He added that he spent 30 days in rehab afterward, which occurred after what he called a weekend of hard drinking. He also donated $500,000 to Black charities.
Some will forgive him; some, of course, won't. For what it's worth, WUSY FM 100.7 has recently returned Wallen to its airwaves.
Obit observations
If there's been a silver lining to the extreme pain caused by the pandemic over the past year and a half, it's been our renewed appreciation, admiration and respect for the health care workers who do so much. For example, look at the life and actions of Dr. Charles Graves, who died Tuesday at age 96.
Yes, he was married for 66 years and led a loving family, but his world - and the world of who knows how many lives in the Sequatchie Valley - were changed when he became a medic in the Army in World War II.
That led Dr. Graves to medical school, and after a short detour in California, he landed in Dunlap where, well, the obit says it perfectly: "Dr. Graves practiced medicine for 50 years, treating outpatients, admitting in-patients, dealing with emergency room crises, delivering babies and performing countless surgeries. Charles and Mary Lou teamed together to expand the Sequatchie General Hospital to a 49-bed facility serving Dunlap and nearby communities. They also helped build the Dunlap Seventh-day Adventist Church and later a church school. Dr. Graves always said, 'You can never out-give the Lord!'"
Goodness knows he tried.
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