{"id":552,"date":"2013-03-13T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=552"},"modified":"2013-03-13T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:09:41","slug":"towson-drops-baseball-program-players-cover-up-schools-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/03\/13\/towson-drops-baseball-program-players-cover-up-schools-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Towson drops baseball program, players cover up schools name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-553\" alt=\"towsonuni\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/03\/towsonuni.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/03\/towsonuni.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/03\/towsonuni-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Towson University announced that it was cutting the baseball program so the players decided to do the same to the school&#8217;s name on their jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>Players on the Towson baseball team covered up the school&#8217;s name with black duct tape. The players are planning to play out the remainder of the season with duct tape covering the school&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball is not the only sport being cut at the school as men&#8217;s soccer is also on the way out. Towson says cutting the sports will save the school $800,000. They will still honor current scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/mlb-big-league-stew\/towson-drops-baseball-players-drop-school-name-jerseys-163707292--mlb.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big League Stew<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towson University announced that it was cutting the baseball program so the players decided to do the same to the school&#8217;s name on their jerseys. Players on the Towson baseball team covered up the school&#8217;s name with black duct tape. The players are planning to play out the remainder of the season with duct tape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}