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Arsenal Player Offers To Pay For Gunnersaurus' Salary After Mascot Was Laid Off

3:39pm October 07, 2020

by Reese Oxner

"I'm offering to reimburse @Arsenal with the full salary of our big green guy as long as I will be an Arsenal player," Mesut Özil said. It's not clear if his offer has been accepted.

Sam Deronsle drives to the basket during a basketball game at Killingly High School on Jan. 14. Deronsle is wearing a Redmen jersey after school board members voted to reinstate the mascot.

National

Connecticut School Board Reinstates Mascot Native Americans Called Demeaning

10:09am February 10, 2020

by Frankie Graziano

The Killingly, Conn., school district changed a mascot from the Redmen to the Red Hawks last year at the recommendation of local Native Americans. This year, new board members reversed that decision.

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Even rappelling from the rafters of the Philadelphia Flyers' arena, swinging to the tender tuneful power of Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball," Gritty can see you. He can see your soul.

Gritty, Stuff Of Nightmares, Has Been Officially Welcomed To Philadelphia

3:31pm October 26, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The Philadelphia Flyers' mascot looks like something that would hide under your bed as a child. "Gritty may be a hideous monster," says the city's official resolution, "but he is our hideous monster."

Roughly the size of a shoebox, the Mascot lander safely settled onto the surface of the Ryugu asteroid. It's seen here in an artist's rendering of the craft released by Germany's DLR aerospace agency.

Probe Lands On Ryugu Asteroid In Latest Success For International Group

3:34pm October 03, 2018

by Bill Chappell

On Twitter, the craft echoed Alice in Wonderland, declaring: "And then I found myself in a place like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery and danger!"