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"textContent": "The Cleveland Spiders haven’t been a baseball team since 1899, but a longstanding trademark dispute involving that team name and the University of Richmond—whose mascot is the Spiders—is now before a federal court in Ohio. Last week, the owner of clevelandspiders.com, which sells streetwear and markets itself as an “ode to the past,” sued the […]",
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