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Major League Baseball is moving away from the longtime practice of donating its wrong-winner merchandise to other countries.MLB spokesman Matt Bourne confirmed that all licensed items that call the Cleveland Indians the 2016 World Series champions must be handed over by retailers in order to destroy the products after the?Chicago Cubs victory in the seven-game series.The Huffington Post first reported the story.Since 2005, Major League Baseball has officially worked with World Vision, a charity that donates gear to needy countries. But Bourne said the league changed gears to protect the team from inaccurate merchandise being available in the general marketplace.Jim Fischerkeller, director of corporate engagement for World Vision, told ESPN that the organization was not notified by baseball of the decision but is fine with the call as long as it had nothing to do with leakage of product by our organization in the past.Fischerkeller said he did not know of any incidents in which MLB provided gear to World Vision and those items found their way into hands in North America.A relatively large number of Indians championship products are expected to be destroyed for a variety of reasons.So-called hot market gear is produced so retailers can immediately have items available when a team wins a championship. Fischerkeller said he believes more merchandise was made because the Indians had a 3-1 lead, prompting Cleveland retailers to put in more orders.Indians championship gear was shipped to retailers in Cleveland with the instruction that the boxes should only be opened if the Indians won. When the Indians lost 8-7 in Game 7, the retailers had to ship the boxes back to the licensee or to MLB.The nations largest online licensed sports retailer, Fanatics, has nothing to send because it only orders and makes the gear of the eventual champion.If the Cubs had lost, the number of items that would have been destroyed would have been immense because of Chicagos large market and the significance of the teams 108-year-old title drought. One of the largest sports donations to World Vision came when the Chicago Bears lost Super Bowl XLI in 2007. Cheap Shoes NZ . According to a report from the Winnipeg Free Press, the Bombers will name Acting GM Kyle Walters to the post full time. 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This process has only strengthened our collective resolve that we can compete with the best in class from academics to athletics. -- University of Cincinnati interim president Beverly J. Davenport and athletic director Mike Bohn, in a joint statement.---The Big 12s decision in no way changes the mission of the University of Houston that began long before there was talk of conference expansion. ... We remain committed to strengthening our nationally competitive programs in academics and athletics that allow our student athletes to compete on the national stage. We are confident that in this competitive collegiate athletics landscape an established program with a history of winning championships and a demonstrated commitment to talent and facilities in the nations fourth largest city will find its rightful place. Our destiny belongs to us. -- University of Houston President Renu Khator.---One of the telling things about this process is that the Big 12, in wanting to expand, look at who they were talking to. Most of the schools they were talking to were in our conference. I think that shows, without question, that our conference plays at their level and are athletically and academically appropriate to be a Power Five. -- UConn President Susan Herbst, who also serves as chairwoman of the board for the American Athletic Conference.---The Big 12 decision today will likely stabilize the FBS conference landscape in the short term. At Rice, we needd to continue to promote our brand and schedule well to deliver the best environment possible for our students and fans.dddddddddddd -- Rice AD Joe Karlgaard.---Over the last few months, BYU has learned a lot about its strengths as an institution and as an athletic department. Through our in-depth review we have reinforced valuable relationships and have been reminded how strong we are as a university. BYU strives to run its athletic program like a P5 institution. Our national fan base and broadcast ratings, along with the many historical and recent successes of our teams, attest we certainly belong. We believe BYU can significantly contribute to the athletic and academic excellence of a P5 conference. -- BYU official statement.---Our student-athletes, coaches, staff, donors, alumni, fans and community members have propelled our program to profound success in recent years in the American Athletic Conference and I am confident that they will continue to do so in the future. The USF family came together with many in the Tampa community to tell our remarkable story to the world, and we will continue to share it. -- USF athletic director Mark Harlan.---I think its easy to refocus on our vision to be the best program in the American Athletic Conference and if we do that then well compete on a national level across all 17 sports. Now we have everyone devoted to that vision. When we talked in the spring before the Big 12s announcement, we felt we were positioning ourselves to be another power conference. So in a lot of ways, this process validated that belief because ours was the league where they looked. -- SMU AD Rick Hart told the Dallas Morning News. ' ' '