Category: College Hoops

We have a lot of ground to cover today, boys and girls, so let’s get crackin’… I’ve written several times in the past about sports historian Dave Eskenazi and his …

Another university is doing a public service by putting its visual history on the web. Reader Dan Hardin has the details: Texas A&M has an ongoing project to digitize historic …

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: As I was working on some other stuff late last night, I got an e-mail from reader Mark Surra, who had …

Arthur Farrell’s Hockey: Canada’s Royal Winter Game, published in 1899, is thought to be the first book ever written about hockey. Only four copies are known to exist, none of …

Two weeks ago, while writing about the amazing Vintage Card Traders site, I mentioned the old flocked helmets that the Pirates used to wear. That prompted a note from reader …

You know about Jackie Robinson. You know about Satchel Paige. And after the last two weeks, you sure as hell know about Michael Richards. (In case you’ve been under a …

Remember that old “This is the NFL” marketing slogan? Yesterday it was officially changed to “This is the NFL?” The league was barely recognizable yesterday, especially in Buffalo and Denver, …

New ESPN column today. I’ll add the link when it goes live. [Update: Oops, no ESPN column today after all — it’s been bumped to next week.] Meanwhile, check out …

Whatever else you may think of football, it’s got one major advantage over every other American sport: No matter what the weather is, the game goes on. That point was …

Uni Watch readers continue to impress, as Chad Morris has come through with screen shots of the collared undershirt worn last Sunday by Will Smith (not by Charles Grant, as …

Road-tripping was on the agenda last weekend, as Uni Watch hedge fund analyst Jenny Strasburg and I spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday tooling around the Jersey Shore. We hit the …

As you may recall, the Knicks wore special green uniforms for St. Patrick’s Day last season, and I think the plan is for them to do it again this time …

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: Tomorrow is November 11th, which is an important day in many countries, because it’s the day World War I ended, as …

The Diamondbacks unveiled their new uniforms last night. I’ll have a full review in my next ESPN column, which will run tomorrow. But for now I want to talk about …

Yesterday I noted that Paul Pierce had worn a “2” on his headband on Wednesday night, because that’s the number the Celtics have retired for Red Auerbach. (I mistakenly thought …