Category: College Football

In the spring of 1998, when I was the marketing/branding columnist for Fortune magazine (yes, really), I attended the American Marketing Association’s annual New Products Conference. Three then-new brands were …

Our lead item today is short but packs a big punch, because reader Drew Samuelson has noticed something that the rest of us all missed: Looks like Dodgers pitcher Takashi …

You may have noticed that last Thursday’s ESPN column included a brief mention of John Maxymuk’s Uniform Numbers of the NFL: All-Time Rosters, Facts and Figures (which came out about …

We have a lot to cover this week, boys and girls, so let’s get started, beginning with some observations from Week 1 in the NFL: • Ronnie Brown and Chris …

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: I love historical uni oddities that we all missed the first time around but are now rediscovering, and reader Chris Ford …

A really good book has just been published: Matthew Algeo’s Last Team Standing, which chronicles an odd chapter in NFL history: the temporary merger of the Steelers and Eagles (thereby …

In case you didn’t know — and let’s face it, you probably didn’t — the International Softball Federation‘s 11th annual Women’s World Championship tournament is currently taking place in Beijing. …

Lots of random weekend musings today, beginning with the news that Kyle Snyder has now been officially certified as MLB’s undisputed king of the wayward shirt tag. Back in July, …

Everyone knows about the White Sox’s one-game experiment wearing shorts in 1976. But you might not know that the Chisox weren’t the only professional baseball team to wear shorts, nor …

Quick, which guy in this photo looks like a football player, and which one looks like he got lost on his way to clown school? How about in this photo? …

With our first full weekend of NFL preseason action now in the books, a few quick observations are in order. To wit: • Several dozen readers wrote in to express …

This year’s Society for American Baseball Research annual convention took place in Seattle. I didn’t attend, but as a SABR member I received a copy of the publication that was …

Last night I saw the film 13 Tzameti, a French thriller, or psychodrama, or something along those lines. The movie’s key sequence involves an unusual sporting event with 13 participants, …

As briefly noted in yesterday’s Uni Watch News Ticker, the NFL Network’s NFL Total Access show ran a Wednesday-night segment about the league’s officials getting new uniforms this season. Although …

While the rest of us fixate on the baseball diamond and the NFL practice field, James Huening has come up with the best uni-related observation of the year so far: …