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The scandal surrounding the Jackie Robinson West little league baseball team has given way to threats of legal action from the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Yahoo! Sports reports that Jackson is calling for Little League International to return the U.S. World Series championship to the 12-year-old members of the team after the team was stripped of […]

Little League has stripped the U.S. title from Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Team for allegedly allowing players who didn’t live in the proposed city limits to play for the team. ESPN Chicago reports: The Jackie Robinson West team, the first all-African-American team to win the championship, must vacate wins from the 2014 Little League Baseball International Tournament […]

A championship team was paid tribute to at the White House this week. But no, they weren’t college or pro champs. The White House honored the aptly named Jackie Robinson West All-Stars from the South Side of Chicago with a special ceremony at the White House. President Obama and top advisor Valerie Jarrett honored the […]