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Washington Redskins win trademark fight over the team’s name

The fight began nearly 25 years ago, an epic legal tussle over a single word: Redskins. 

But on Thursday, after protests outside NFL stadiums, vows by sports journalists never to use the word and even former president Barack Obama urging team owner Daniel Snyder to change the name, the battle petered out. 

On Thursday, the five Native Americans fighting the NFL team over its trademark registrations called it quits in federal appeals court. So did the Justice Department, which on Wednesday declared the team the winner.

Read entire article at The Washington Post