The Cleveland Indians are dropping their name after 105 years. 

Amid a cultural reckoning with offensive uses of Native American imagery and names in sports, the team could stop using “Indians” as soon as the 2022 season. 

Native American groups and some fans have protested the team’s name for decades. “The name is no longer acceptable in our world,” owner Paul Dolan said.

Cleveland retired the use of its former cartoon mascot known as “Chief Wahoo” after the 2018 season. It now uses a block letter “C” in the logo’s place. 

It’s A Movement: The NFL franchise currently known as the Washington Football Team announced an immediate end to using its former name, a racist slur, in July. Cleveland announced it would conduct a “throughout review” of its name hours later. 

Unlike Washington, the baseball team will keep its current name while it determines a new one.

Other professional sports teams that co-opt Native American terms in their names and imagery — like the Atlanta Braves, Chicago Blackhawks and Kansas City Chiefs — have recently stated that they have no plans to change.

Electronic Arts is prioritizing their racing video game category with a $1.2 billion purchase of London-based developer Codemasters.

Codemasters, creator of some of the world’s most popular racing games, previously agreed to a $970 million deal with 2K and Rockstar’s parent company Take-Two Interactive before EA swooped in over the weekend. Take-Two’s market capitalization is roughly half that of EA’s $40 billion.

The Codemasters deal is the biggest acquisition in EA’s history. The broader video game industry has seen increased consolidation as consumer spending skyrockets.

• Microsoft announced a $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda Softworks parent company ZeniMax Media in September
• Zynga bought Turkish mobile game developer Peak Games for $1.8 billion in June
• Swedish company Modern Times Group paid $375 million for mobile game developer Hutch Games this month

EA will secure a massive share of the racing game segment by publishing Codemasters titles alongside the “Need for Speed” and “Burnout” franchises. The top competitors remaining are Sony’s “Gran Turismo” series and Microsoft’s “Forza.”

With NFL, FIFA and NHL titles, EA is one of the world’s foremost sports video game developers. Year-to-date spending on all video game hardware and content reached $44.5 billion through November.

DAZN is selling Sporting News — the U.S.’s oldest sports publication — to Pax Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment firm.

The company, primarily known for its sports streaming service, took over Sporting News in 2013. The publication went digital-only in 2012.

DAZN, hammered by the pandemic, shed multiple parts of its business in recent months. 

• First media group in the U.S. to tell sports leagues it would not pay rights fees for canceled or suspended games
• Canceled “ChangeUp,” an MLB whip-around show
• Divested Goal.com, a soccer news website
• Laid off about 2% of global staff, primarily in New York and Sao Paulo
• Split with boxer Canelo Alvarez, ending an 11-fight, $365 million deal

“These are strategic moves by DAZN to divest non-core assets as it tries to focus its efforts and resources around its streaming business,” a source told Front Office Sports.

In August, DAZN was reportedly looking to raise $1 billion and go public through an IPO or merging with a special purpose acquisition company.