The NHL isn’t the only league that can stage an outdoor hockey game. This past Saturday, the Kontinental Hockey League, which is primarily Russian (further details here) staged its all-star …
Category: All-Star Unis
Uni Watch History Mystery: Who Was That All-Star?
Remember my recent ESPN column about unusual uni-related moments in MLB All-Star Games? We appear to have another one on our hands — or, at the very least, an interesting …
Death, Taxes, and Wagner Blowing the Save
So I’m watching the All-Star Game last night with my buddy Large from No Mas. We haven’t seen each other since February (he lives in California these days), so I’m …
Dwarf Stars
[Editor’s Note: Reader Mike Miller recently attended the the 2008 Carolina League/California League All-Star Game in Myrtle Beach and provided such a thorough report that I’ve decided to run it …
Which Is the Greater Exercise in Futility: the Pro Bowl, or the Pro Bowlers Tour?
It remains one of the sports world’s enduring mysteries: Every year the NFL selects the best players at each position, gathers them together for an all-star game in Honolulu, and …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
The NHL All-Star Game was last night, but I found the uniforms to be unremarkable at best (and besides, I was busy participating in Soup Night for most of the …
Family Jewels
A few Sundays ago, while the rest of you were watching football, Scott M.X. Turner and I went over to reader Steve Flack‘s house — or, rather, to the building …
Numerology
SI.com’s photo galleries are usually pretty good, but their current “Greatest College Football Players by Number” rundown offers a particularly rich lode of uni-related details. Here’s a rundown (several of …
CSI: Hofstra
We’ve all heard about the NFL’s “uniform police.” But when you see articles about them (like this one, which I linked to a few weeks back), they tend to give …
Consistently Inconsistent
A small trend has been brewing on the typography front. It began a few weeks ago, when I ran a Ticker item (contributed by William Yurasko) about Florida International’s use …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
Lots of ground to cover today, beginning with the excellent time I had last Friday at Giants Stadium, where I spent the afternoon interviewing equipment director Joe Skiba. This will …
Auction Action
As I’ve lamented several times, basketball is by far worst-documented of the major sports, at least from a uniform perspective. So the best way to catch up on hoops history …
It Balances on Your Head Just Like a Mattress Balances on a Bottle of Wine
Remember how several National League teams wore those striped pillbox caps during the 1976 season? In addition to the Cardinals (who even had striped helmets), other teams wearing this style …
Dash of Hell, Pinch of Handbasket, Mix Thoroughly
Man, I go away for a week and an entire league goes down the toilet. The trouble started just a few hours after I put up the “Gone Fishing” sign, …
On-Site All-Star Report from San Francisco
By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way to St. Louis. Hope to meet all you Gateway City readers tonight at McGurks. Meanwhile: The All-Star Game is …