Hello there. Welcome to the 2016 edition of Uni Watch’s Purple Amnesty Day — or as I now like to call it, the Purp Walk. Today is the site’s anniversary, …
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And So It Begins: Sixers Announce First NBA Jersey Ad
Big development this morning, as my ESPN colleague Darren Rovell has broken the news that the 76ers are the first NBA team to have inked a deal with a jersey …
Utah Jazz Unveil New Uniforms
Click to enlarge As expected, the Utah Jazz unveiled new logos yesterday, and they matched the designs that I had already reported after obtaining them from an industry source. But …
Let’s Get a Count of MLB High-Cuffers
Got a tweet the other night from reader Ross Wallace, who asked me — and also Phil — for an estimate of how many MLB players go high-cuffed. As you …
Question Time, Vol. 7
Welcome to another installment of Question Time, where you ask me stuff and I do my best to answer. Here we go: When you watch TV, do you adjust the …
A Look at Jersey Designs That Lean to One Side
We all know that one of the problems with button-front jerseys is that sometimes a letter ends up being cut in half as it sits astride the placket, and sometimes …
You Must Wear the Ribbon (and the wristband, and the undershirt, and the batting gloves, and the compression sleeve, and the shoes, and the socks…)
For many of today’s photos, you can click to enlarge We knew MLB players would be wearing a lot of pink yesterday, including pink-lettered and -numbered jerseys (first time those …
How Uniform Should a Uniform Be?
It’s a common complaint: Can’t everyone on the team wear their uniforms more uniformly? A Pirates fan recently expressed that sentiment in the weekly mailbag column written by one of …
Auction Action
As you may have noticed in the left-hand sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions are running another catalog auction. Here are some of the listings that caught my eye: …
Uni(tard) Watch: Pirate Edition
Last week I wrote about how Iowa’s basketball team had worn unitards (well, at least in practice, although not in a game) back around 1989 or ’90. Today we can …
Not the End of the World After All
Ageless Mets pitcher Bartolo Colón tossed eight scoreless frames last night. Toward the end of the game, Phil emailed me the photo shown above, with the subject line, “Now THAT …
A New Solution to an Old Problem
Click to enlarge When the Red Wings recently announced that their new arena would be named after a “pizza” chain, lots of people asked me if I’d be coming out …
Is This the Future of Catcher’s Equipment?
Photo by Skye Design Studios; click to enlarge The catchers shown above play for the independent Atlantic League. As you can see, their masks, chest protectors, and shin guards feature …
Hope I Die Before I Get Old (oops, too late)
As we recently discussed, uniform rankings rarely bring out the best in anyone. So when my Sweet 16 uni rankings appeared on ESPN last month, I got lots outraged reactions …
What Do We Think of the Kings’ New Identity?
Click to enlarge The Sacramento Kings unveiled a new logo set yesterday (see above). I was given early access to this one and have all the particulars in this ESPN …