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XFL kickoff and punt returns up, compared to NFL

Early returns on the XFL's slew of rule changes reveal at least one significant takeaway. The effort to increase the number of kickoff and punt returns, compared to recent NFL averages, has been largely successful. Through the first eight games of the XFL's 40-game season, 90.1% of kickoffs and 63.4% of punts have been returned. Last season in the NFL, 34.1% of kickoffs and 36.2% of punts were returned. So far, 25% of the XFL's punts have come from the "Go Zone." That compares to 35% during the 2019 NFL season. Overall, Luck said that he hopes the punt-return rate would hit 80% by the end of the season.

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XFL stats 2020: All the new league's passing, rushing, receiving, defensive leaders through Week 2

Passing Leaders:
NAMEPOSITIONTEAMCMP/ATTYARDSTDINTRATING
Cardale JonesQBDC39/63 (61.9%)51141102.0
P.J. WalkerQBHOU43/70 (61.4%)44971107.4
Jordan Ta'amuQBSTL50/64 (78/1%)49342106.6
Brandon SilversQBSEA28/58 (48.3%)3084365.8
Landry JonesQBDAL28/40 (70%)3051279.7


Rushing Leaders
PLAYERPOSITIONTEAMATTYARDSAVGTD
Matt JonesRBSTL371293.50
De'Veon SmithRBTB271254.60
Jordan Ta'amuQBSTL171096.40
Cameron Artis-PayneRBDAL161056.62
Jacques PatrickRBTB221054.70


Receiving leaders
PLAYERPOSITIONTEAMRECYARDSTD
Nelson SpruceWRLA171922
Rashad RossWRDC61471
Dan WilliamsWRTB91450
Cam PhillipsWRHOU121304
Eli RogersWRDC111220

Tackle leaders
PLAYERPOSITIONTEAMTACKLES
Steven JohnsonLBSEA18
Marcelis BranchSTB17
Bunmi RotimiDENY16
Darius HillaryCBSTL15
Beniquez BrownLBHOU15


Sack leaders
PLAYERPOSITIONTEAMSACKS
Wesley SuttonSNY2.0
LaTroy LewisLBHOU2.0
Anthony JohnsonDTDC1.5
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XFL 2020 standings: Week 2

East Division​
TEAMOVERALLPFPAVS. DIV.VS. WESTHOMEAWAY
D.C. Defenders2-058191-01-02-00-0
St. Louis BattleHawks1-139370-01-10-01-1
New York Guardians1-123301-10-01-00-1
Tampa Bay Vipers0-212400-10-10-00-2


West Division​
TEAMOVERALLPFPAVS. DIV.VS. EASTHOMEAWAY
Houston Roughnecks2-065411-01-02-00-0
Seattle Dragons1-136400-01-11-00-1
Dallas Renegades1-134331-00-10-11-0
Los Angeles Wildcats0-235620-20-00-10-1
 
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XFL stats 2020: All of the league's passing, rushing, receiving, defensive leaders through Week 3


Passing leaders
NAMEPOSITIONTEAMCMP/ATTYARDSTDINTRATING
P.J. WalkerQBHOU67/106 (63.2%)748101112.0
Jordan Ta'amuQBSTL62/82 (75.0%)61242102.3
Cardale JonesQBDC52/89 (58.4%)6024571.1
Landry JonesQBDAL58/81 (71.6%)5794487.4
Brandon SilversQBSEA49/92 (53.3%)5126473.3


Rushing leaders
Matt JonesRBSTL522244.31
Cameron Artis-PayneRBDAL291856.42
De'Veon SmithRBTB421744.10
James ButlerRBHOU231305.72
Jordan Ta'amuQBSTL201236.20


Receiving leaders
Cam PhillipsWRHOU203247
Nelson SpruceWRLA202562
Donald Parham Jr.TEDAL142173
Dan WilliamsWRTB111801
Rashad RossWRDC71641


Tackle leaders
Steven JohnsonLBSEA32
Bunmi RotimiDENY23
Marcelis BranchSTB21
Ahmad DixonSLA20
Beniquez BrownLBHOU20
Dexter McCoilSSTL20
DeMarquis GatesLBHOU20


Sack leaders
Wesley SuttonSNY2.0
LaTroy LewisLBHOU2.0
Andrew AnkrahDESTL2.0
Carl BradfordLBHOU2.0
Anthony JohnsonDTDC1.5
Cavon WalkerDTNY1.5
Antwione WilliamsLBDC1.5


Interception leaders
Mike StevensCBLA2
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East Division​
TEAMOVERALLPFPAVS. DIV.VS. WESTHOMEAWAY
St. Louis BattleHawks2-168461-01-11-01-1
D.C. Defenders2-167581-01-12-00-1
New York Guardians1-232591-20-01-00-2
Tampa Bay Vipers0-339740-10-20-10-2


West Division​
TEAMOVERALLPFPAVS. DIV.VS. EASTHOMEAWAY
Houston Roughnecks3-099681-02-02-01-0
Dallas Renegades2-158452-00-10-12-0
Seattle Dragons1-248640-11-11-10-1
Los Angeles Wildcats1-274710-21-01-10-1
 
2020 XFL Schedule
Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders...Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats...New York Guardians...Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.

WEEK 1:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9

WEEK 2:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9

WEEK 3:
Roughnecks 34, Vipers 27
Renegades 24, Dragons 12
BattleHawks 29, Guardians 9
Wildcats 39, Defenders 9

WEEK 4:
Wildcats (1-2) at Guardians (1-2) - Saturday, Feb. 29 (2 p.m. ET)
Dragons (1-2) at BattleHawks (2-1) - Saturday, Feb. 29 (5 p.m. ET)
Roughnecks (3-0) at Renegades (2-1) - Sunday, March 1 (4 p.m. ET)
Defenders (2-1) at Vipers (0-3) - Sunday, March 1 (7 p.m. ET)

Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders... Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats... New York Guardians... Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.
 
Use of nigger in proper names


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The racial slur nigger has historically been used in names of products, colors, plants, as place names, and as people's nicknames, amongst others.
Contents
Commercial products


Poster for "Nigger Hair" tobacco, later known as "Bigger Hair"

In the US, the word nigger featured in branding and packaging consumer products, e.g., "Nigger Hair Tobacco" and "Niggerhead Oysters". As the term became less acceptable in mainstream culture, the tobacco brand became "Bigger Hair" and the canned goods brand became "Negro Head".[1][2] An Australian company produced various sorts of licorice candy under the "Nigger Boy" label. These included candy cigarettes and one box with an image of an Indian snake charmer.[3][4][5] Compare these with the various national varieties and names for chocolate-coated marshmallow treats, and with Darlie, formerly Darkie, toothpaste.
Plant and animal names


Orsotriaena medus, once known as the nigger butterfly

Some colloquial or local names for plants and animals used to include the word "nigger" or "niggerhead".
The colloquial names for echinacea (coneflower) are "Kansas niggerhead" and "Wild niggerhead". The cotton-top cactus (Echinocactus polycephalus) is a round, cabbage-sized plant covered with large, crooked thorns, and used to be known in Arizona as the "niggerhead cactus". In the early 20th century, double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) were known in some areas of Florida as "nigger geese".[6] In some parts of the U.S., Brazil nuts were known as "nigger toes".[7]
The "niggerhead termite" (Nasutitermes graveolus) is a native of Australia.[8]
Colors
A shade of dark brown used to be known as "nigger brown" or simply "nigger";[9] other colors were also prefixed with the word. Usage as a color word continued for some time after it was no longer acceptable about people.[10] Nigger brown commonly identified a colour in the clothing industry and advertising of the early 20th century.[11]
Nicknames of people


Nig Perrine

During the Spanish–American War US Army General John J. Pershing's original nickname, Nigger Jack, given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with "Buffalo Soldier" units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters.[12][13]
In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexioned players were nicknamed Nig;[14][15] examples are: Johnny Beazley (1941–49), Joe Berry (1921–22), Bobby Bragan (1940–48), Nig Clarke (1905–20), Nig Cuppy (1892–1901), Nig Fuller (1902), Johnny Grabowski (1923–31), Nig Lipscomb (1937), Charlie Niebergall (1921–24), Nig Perrine (1907), and Frank Smith (1904–15). The 1930s movie The Bowery with George Raft and Wallace Beery includes a sports-bar in New York City named "Nigger Joe's".
In 1960, a stand at the stadium in Toowoomba, Australia, was named the "E. S. 'Nigger' Brown Stand" honoring 1920s rugby league player Edwin Brown, so ironically nicknamed since early life because of his pale white skin; his tombstone is engraved Nigger. Stephen Hagan, a lecturer at the Kumbari/Ngurpai Lag Higher Education Center of the University of Southern Queensland, sued the Toowoomba council over the use of nigger in the stand's name; the district and state courts dismissed his lawsuit. He appealed to the High Court of Australia, who ruled the naming matter beyond federal jurisdiction. At first some local Aborigines did not share Mr Hagan's opposition to nigger.[16] Hagan appealed to the United Nations, winning a committee recommendation to the Australian federal government, that it force the Queensland state government to remove the word nigger from the "E. S. 'Nigger' Brown Stand" name. The Australian federal government followed the High Court's jurisdiction ruling. In September 2008, the stand was demolished. The Queensland Sports Minister, Judy Spence, said that using nigger would be unacceptable, for the stand or on any commemorative plaque. The 2005 book The N Word: One Man's Stand by Hagan includes this episode.[16][17]
Place names
Many places in the United States, and some in Canada, were given names that included the word "nigger", usually named after a person, or for a perceived resemblance of a geographic feature to a human being (see Niggerhead). Most of these place names have long been changed. In 1967, the United States Board on Geographic Names changed the word nigger to Negro in 143 place names.[citation needed]
In West Texas, "Dead Nigger Creek" was renamed "Dead Negro Draw";[18] both names probably commemorate the Buffalo Soldier tragedy of 1877.[19] Curtis Island in Maine used to be known as either Negro[20] or Nigger Island.[21] The island was renamed in 1934 after Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, who lived locally.[22] It had a baseball team who wore uniforms emblazoned with "Nigger Island" (or in one case, "Nigger Ilsand").[23] Negro Head Road, or Nigger Head Road, referred to many places in the Old South where black body parts were displayed in warning (see Lynching in the United States).
Some renamings honor a real person. As early as 1936, "Nigger Hollow" in Pennsylvania, named after Daniel Hughes, a free black man who saved others on the Underground Railroad,[24] was renamed Freedom Road.[25] "Nigger Nate Grade Road", near Temecula, California, named for Nate Harrison, an ex-slave and settler, was renamed "Nathan Harrison Grade Road" in 1955, at the request of the NAACP.[26]
Sometimes other substitutes for "nigger" were used. "Nigger Head Mountain", at Burnet, Texas, was named because the forest atop it resembled a black man's hair. In 1966, the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and the U.S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming "Colored Mountain" in 1968.[citation needed] Other renamings were more creative. "Nigger Head Rock", protruding from a cliff above Highway 421, north of Pennington Gap, Virginia, was renamed "Great Stone Face" in the 1970s.[citation needed]
Some names have been metaphorically or literally wiped off the map. In the 1990s, the public authorities stripped the names of "Niggertown Marsh" and the neighbouring Niggertown Knoll in Florida from public record and maps, which was the site of an early settlement of freed black people.[27] A watercourse in the Sacramento Valley was known as Big Nigger Sam's Slough.[28]



Sign replaced in September 2016

Sometimes a name changes more than once: a peak above Santa Monica, California was first renamed "Negrohead Mountain", and in February 2010 was renamed again to Ballard Mountain, in honor of John Ballard, a black pioneer who settled the area in the nineteenth century. A point on the Lower Mississippi River, in West Baton Rouge Parish, that was named "Free Nigger Point" until the late twentieth century, first was renamed "Free Negro Point", but currently is named "Wilkinson Point".[29] "Nigger Bill Canyon" in southeast Utah was named after William Grandstaff, a mixed-race cowboy who lived there in the late 1870s.[30] In the 1960s, it was renamed Negro Bill Canyon. Within the past few years, there has been a campaign to rename it again, as Grandstaff Canyon, but this is opposed by the local NAACP chapter, whose president said "Negro is an acceptable word".[31] However the trailhead for the hiking trail up the canyon was renamed in September 2016 to "Grandstaff Trailhead"[32] The new sign for the trailhead was stolen within five days of installation.[33]
A few places in Canada also used the word. At Penticton, British Columbia, "Niggertoe Mountain" was renamed Mount Nkwala. The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.[34] John Ware, an influential cowboy in early Alberta, has several features named after him, including "Nigger John Ridge", which is now John Ware Ridge.[35]
 
XFL standings 2020:

East Division
St. Louis BattleHawks - 3-1
DC Defenders - 2-2
New York Guardians - 2-2
Tampa Bay Vipers - 1-3

West Division
Houston Roughnecks - 4-0
Dallas Renegades - 2-2
Seattle Dragons - 1-3
Los Angeles Wildcats -1-3
 
2020 XFL Schedule

Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders...Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats...New York Guardians...Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.

WEEK 1:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9

WEEK 2:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9

WEEK 3:
Roughnecks 34, Vipers 27
Renegades 24, Dragons 12
BattleHawks 29, Guardians 9
Wildcats 39, Defenders 9

WEEK 4:
Guardians 17, Wildcats 14
BattleHawks 23, Dragons 16
Roughnecks 27, Renegades 20
Vipers 25, Defenders 0

WEEK-5:
Dragons at Roughnecks - Saturday, March 7 (2 p.m. ET)
Guardians at Renegades - Saturday, March 7 (5 p.m. ET)
BattleHawks at Defenders - Sunday, March 8 (3 p.m. ET)
Vipers at Wildcats - Sunday, March 8 (9 p.m. ET)


Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders... Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats... New York Guardians... Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.
 
Passing leaders
P.J. WalkerQBHOU92/147 (62.6%)987122104.0
Jordan Ta'amuQBSTL82/109 (75.2%)87652105.9
Josh JohnsonQBLA61/99 (61.6%)78871106.6
Landry JonesQBDAL83/119 (69.7%)7845777.2
Cardale JonesQBDC61/111 (55.0%)6744663.1

Rushing leaders
De'Veon SmithRBTB662964.50
Matt JonesRBSTL672443.61
Jacques PatrickRBTB532314.41
Cameron Artis-PayneRBDAL412165.32
Jordan Ta'amuQBSTL361865.20

Receiving leaders
Cam PhillipsWRHOU213337
Donald ParhamTEDAL202734
Nelson SpruceWRLA202562
Dan WilliamsWRTB182521
Tre McBrideWRLA132363

Tackle leaders
Steven JohnsonLBSEA40
Ahmad DixonSLA34
Dexter McCoilSSTL30
Beniquez BrownLBHOU29
DeMarquis GatesLBHOU28

Sack leaders
Cavon WalkerDTNY2.5
Wesley SuttonSNY2.0
LaTroy LewisLBHOU2.0
Jarrell OwensDENY2.0
Andrew AnkrahDESTL2.0
Carl BradfordLBHOU2.0

Interception leaders
Deatrick NicholsCBHOU3
Mike StevensCBLA2
Tarvarus McFaddenCBTB2
Rahim MooreSDC2
Will HillSSTL2
Cody BrownSHOU2
 
The XFL is a professional American football league owned by Vince McMahon's Alpha Entertainment, and is headquartered in Stanford, Connecticut. It is the successor to the original XFL, which was controlled by McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and NBC, and ran for a single season in 2001. The league follows a similar structure as the original XFL did in 2001, with eight teams, centrally owned and operated by the league (as opposed to the franchise model, with each team having different ownership groups) and spread across the United States in markets currently or recently represented by a National Football League (NFL) franchise, competing in a season and a two-week postseason in the winter and spring months, after the Super Bowl. In announcing the reformed XFL, McMahon stated that while it would share its name and trademark with the previous incarnation, it would not rely on professional wrestling-inspired features and entertainment elements as its predecessor did, instead aiming to create a league with fewer off-field controversies and faster, simpler play compared to the NFL.
 
Use of nigger in proper names


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




Jump to navigation Jump to search
The racial slur nigger has historically been used in names of products, colors, plants, as place names, and as people's nicknames, amongst others.
Contents
Commercial products


Poster for "Nigger Hair" tobacco, later known as "Bigger Hair"

In the US, the word nigger featured in branding and packaging consumer products, e.g., "Nigger Hair Tobacco" and "Niggerhead Oysters". As the term became less acceptable in mainstream culture, the tobacco brand became "Bigger Hair" and the canned goods brand became "Negro Head".[1][2] An Australian company produced various sorts of licorice candy under the "Nigger Boy" label. These included candy cigarettes and one box with an image of an Indian snake charmer.[3][4][5] Compare these with the various national varieties and names for chocolate-coated marshmallow treats, and with Darlie, formerly Darkie, toothpaste.
Plant and animal names


Orsotriaena medus, once known as the nigger butterfly

Some colloquial or local names for plants and animals used to include the word "nigger" or "niggerhead".
The colloquial names for echinacea (coneflower) are "Kansas niggerhead" and "Wild niggerhead". The cotton-top cactus (Echinocactus polycephalus) is a round, cabbage-sized plant covered with large, crooked thorns, and used to be known in Arizona as the "niggerhead cactus". In the early 20th century, double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) were known in some areas of Florida as "nigger geese".[6] In some parts of the U.S., Brazil nuts were known as "nigger toes".[7]
The "niggerhead termite" (Nasutitermes graveolus) is a native of Australia.[8]
Colors
A shade of dark brown used to be known as "nigger brown" or simply "nigger";[9] other colors were also prefixed with the word. Usage as a color word continued for some time after it was no longer acceptable about people.[10] Nigger brown commonly identified a colour in the clothing industry and advertising of the early 20th century.[11]
Nicknames of people


Nig Perrine

During the Spanish–American War US Army General John J. Pershing's original nickname, Nigger Jack, given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with "Buffalo Soldier" units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters.[12][13]
In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexioned players were nicknamed Nig;[14][15] examples are: Johnny Beazley (1941–49), Joe Berry (1921–22), Bobby Bragan (1940–48), Nig Clarke (1905–20), Nig Cuppy (1892–1901), Nig Fuller (1902), Johnny Grabowski (1923–31), Nig Lipscomb (1937), Charlie Niebergall (1921–24), Nig Perrine (1907), and Frank Smith (1904–15). The 1930s movie The Bowery with George Raft and Wallace Beery includes a sports-bar in New York City named "Nigger Joe's".
In 1960, a stand at the stadium in Toowoomba, Australia, was named the "E. S. 'Nigger' Brown Stand" honoring 1920s rugby league player Edwin Brown, so ironically nicknamed since early life because of his pale white skin; his tombstone is engraved Nigger. Stephen Hagan, a lecturer at the Kumbari/Ngurpai Lag Higher Education Center of the University of Southern Queensland, sued the Toowoomba council over the use of nigger in the stand's name; the district and state courts dismissed his lawsuit. He appealed to the High Court of Australia, who ruled the naming matter beyond federal jurisdiction. At first some local Aborigines did not share Mr Hagan's opposition to nigger.[16] Hagan appealed to the United Nations, winning a committee recommendation to the Australian federal government, that it force the Queensland state government to remove the word nigger from the "E. S. 'Nigger' Brown Stand" name. The Australian federal government followed the High Court's jurisdiction ruling. In September 2008, the stand was demolished. The Queensland Sports Minister, Judy Spence, said that using nigger would be unacceptable, for the stand or on any commemorative plaque. The 2005 book The N Word: One Man's Stand by Hagan includes this episode.[16][17]
Place names
Many places in the United States, and some in Canada, were given names that included the word "nigger", usually named after a person, or for a perceived resemblance of a geographic feature to a human being (see Niggerhead). Most of these place names have long been changed. In 1967, the United States Board on Geographic Names changed the word nigger to Negro in 143 place names.[citation needed]
In West Texas, "Dead Nigger Creek" was renamed "Dead Negro Draw";[18] both names probably commemorate the Buffalo Soldier tragedy of 1877.[19] Curtis Island in Maine used to be known as either Negro[20] or Nigger Island.[21] The island was renamed in 1934 after Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, who lived locally.[22] It had a baseball team who wore uniforms emblazoned with "Nigger Island" (or in one case, "Nigger Ilsand").[23] Negro Head Road, or Nigger Head Road, referred to many places in the Old South where black body parts were displayed in warning (see Lynching in the United States).
Some renamings honor a real person. As early as 1936, "Nigger Hollow" in Pennsylvania, named after Daniel Hughes, a free black man who saved others on the Underground Railroad,[24] was renamed Freedom Road.[25] "Nigger Nate Grade Road", near Temecula, California, named for Nate Harrison, an ex-slave and settler, was renamed "Nathan Harrison Grade Road" in 1955, at the request of the NAACP.[26]
Sometimes other substitutes for "nigger" were used. "Nigger Head Mountain", at Burnet, Texas, was named because the forest atop it resembled a black man's hair. In 1966, the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and the U.S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming "Colored Mountain" in 1968.[citation needed] Other renamings were more creative. "Nigger Head Rock", protruding from a cliff above Highway 421, north of Pennington Gap, Virginia, was renamed "Great Stone Face" in the 1970s.[citation needed]
Some names have been metaphorically or literally wiped off the map. In the 1990s, the public authorities stripped the names of "Niggertown Marsh" and the neighbouring Niggertown Knoll in Florida from public record and maps, which was the site of an early settlement of freed black people.[27] A watercourse in the Sacramento Valley was known as Big Nigger Sam's Slough.[28]



Sign replaced in September 2016

Sometimes a name changes more than once: a peak above Santa Monica, California was first renamed "Negrohead Mountain", and in February 2010 was renamed again to Ballard Mountain, in honor of John Ballard, a black pioneer who settled the area in the nineteenth century. A point on the Lower Mississippi River, in West Baton Rouge Parish, that was named "Free Nigger Point" until the late twentieth century, first was renamed "Free Negro Point", but currently is named "Wilkinson Point".[29] "Nigger Bill Canyon" in southeast Utah was named after William Grandstaff, a mixed-race cowboy who lived there in the late 1870s.[30] In the 1960s, it was renamed Negro Bill Canyon. Within the past few years, there has been a campaign to rename it again, as Grandstaff Canyon, but this is opposed by the local NAACP chapter, whose president said "Negro is an acceptable word".[31] However the trailhead for the hiking trail up the canyon was renamed in September 2016 to "Grandstaff Trailhead"[32] The new sign for the trailhead was stolen within five days of installation.[33]
A few places in Canada also used the word. At Penticton, British Columbia, "Niggertoe Mountain" was renamed Mount Nkwala. The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.[34] John Ware, an influential cowboy in early Alberta, has several features named after him, including "Nigger John Ridge", which is now John Ware Ridge.[35]






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XFL cancels regular-season games, 'committed' to playing in 2021​

The XFL canceled its regular season Thursday amid the spread of the coronavirus.
The move followed similar cancellations and postponements by the NBA, NHL, NCAA, MLS and Major League Baseball, among others. In its first season since its aborted debut in 2001, the XFL completed half of its scheduled 10-week season. It had been slated to conclude April 12 before two weeks of postseason play. There was no immediate word Thursday about a potential attempt to conduct playoffs. The XFL has given its players approval to sign with NFL teams any time after they pass exit physicals Friday, sources told ESPN's Kevin Seifert. Originally, XFL contacts said players could not sign with NFL until after the XFL playoffs. Despite the cancellation, the league said all players will be paid their base pay and benefits for the regular season, while ticket holders will receive refunds or credit toward future games.

Games drew an average attendance of 18,614 fans, garnering the largest crowds in St. Louis (28,541) and Seattle (25,616), while New York (14,875) and Los Angeles (13,124) found more difficulty attracting fans. Overall, ABC and ESPN networks averaged 2,084,000 viewers per game in Weeks 1-4. Fox networks have averaged 2,019,000 per game. According to the league, all 10 of its broadcast games during that period ranked among television's top 10 shows that week, as did four of the six on cable. The XFL is owned by Vince McMahon, who also runs the WWE. The wrestling company announced earlier Thursday that it would "remain committed" to holding WrestleMania 36 on April 5 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.

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XFL standings 2020:

East Division
St. Louis BattleHawks - 3-2
New York Guardians - 3-2
DC Defenders - 33-2
Tampa Bay Vipers - 1-4

West Division
Houston Roughnecks - 5-0
Dallas Renegades - 2-3
Seattle Dragons - 2-3
Los Angeles Wildcats -1-4
 
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