The Boston Bombers women's semi-pro basketball team decided to change it's name due to the Boston Marathon tragedy that left three people dead and 264 people injured.

The women's team is one of more than 40 teams part of the Women's Blue Chip League, a non-salaried league that helped players get more exposure for opportunites at an advanced level.

The team's Facebook page and website was removed due to the horrific attack that occurred on April 15. The players wear shirts that featured their black and white theme logo of a detonating bomb surrounding a basketball. They revealed their new name, Boston Bulldogs, on Tuesday.

"We was planning on changing it once the Boston incident happened," a spokesperson for the team said. "Our fans were not happy with the name."

Nike was also forced to cancel T0shirts designed with "Boston Massacre" after the bombings. Reports indicated that the shirts, worn by Yankees fans, displayed blood-splattered lettering - a reference to when the Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox and won the World Series in 1978.

Meanwhile, surviving suspect in the bombings Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged at his hospital bed on Monday with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. Tsarnaev was discovered by police hiding in a boat in Watertown, Mass., on April 19, the day after his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was murdered in a shootout with police.

U.S. attorneys said that Dzhokhar's condition is much better as he is currently getting treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dzhokhar manged to only say one word when a judge asked him if he had money to afford a lawyer, in which he said "no."

ABC News reported that the 19-year-old, who is facing the possibility of the death penalty, will be represented by one of the most experienced and respected public defenders, Miriam Conrad.

"She is excellent, tough, tenacious and wise," said Tamar R. Birckhead, a University of North Carolina law professor said.

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