NEW YORK TIMES: An Emotional Response to Charlotte Hornets' Name Change

Many residents of Charlotte, N.C., have answered their doorbells in recent days to find a giant hornet standing before them, holding a purple basketball net. It was not, it turns out, a fever dream; rather, it was Hugo, the teal-and-purple mascot for the Charlotte Hornets, and he was handing out the nets to help create, as hornets are apt to, buzz…