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Rob Manfred (right) speaks at a press conference after being elected by team owners to be the next commissioner of Major League Baseball in 2014. At left is then-MLB commissioner Bud Selig. USA Today Sports photo
In Georgia, Major League Baseball reacted to the passage of election reform laws with a boycott. The sports league has moved its all-star game from Atlanta to Colorado.
In North Dakota, a debate over legislation dealing with transgender athletes was dominated by rumors about what the NCAA might do to punish the state if it passed.
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With only nine picks in their past two entry drafts, the Dallas Stars had to get a little creative to fill up their prospect pool, especially after the recent graduations of Jake Oettinger, Jason Robertson, Ty Dellandrea and others to the big club.
They did exactly that last week, and did so in an interesting way, signing a pair of NCAA free agent teammates from the University of North Dakota: goaltender Adam Scheel and winger Jordan Kawaguchi. Both players signed shortly after their college seasons ended, which happened in a heartbreaking five-overtime elimination loss to Minnesota Duluth.
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Weeks after it was scrubbed from the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website, a disastrous podcast whose host, a white editor and physician, questioned whether racism even exists in medicine is surfacing complaints that JAMA and other elite medical journals have routinely excluded, minimized, and mishandled issues of race.
Recent examples include research blaming higher death rates from Covid-19 in African Americans on a single gene in their nasal passages; a letter claiming structural racism doesn’t play a role in pulse oximeters working less well on patients with dark skin because machines can’t exhibit bias; and an article claiming that students of programs designed to increase diversity in medicine won’t make good doctors.