In case you missed it in yesterday’s comments, the big hockey news is that Nike is getting out of the sport. This isn’t quite as good as, say, curing world …
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Monday Morning Uni Watch
The big uni-related news in the NFL yesterday had nothing to do with the players. It was the pink ribbons being worn by most coaches, owners, and other sideline personnel …
Court Reporter
We’ve been so busy with team sports over the past month or so (stretch-run baseball, the start of the NFL and college football seasons, the relentless flood of new NHL …
Score One for Big Ben
Sometimes the world just feels a little bit ”¦ off. You can’t put your finger on what it is, but you know something is wrong. It’s not something big — …
Back to the Future
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: We all know about the futuristic uniforms that most MLB teams wore in 1999. You may also recall that about six …
Uni Watch Profiles: Conor Clougherty
Conor Clougherty works for Honig’s, a company that specializes in uniforms for umps, refs, and other sports officials. He’s also a big Uni Watch fan, so we recently spent some …
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Uniforms
For years — long before I came up with the idea for Uni Watch — my favorite spot at the Baseball Hall of Fame was the third floor, where they …
Stuck on the Stick
The Craig Biggio situation has reopened the topic of stick pins. I thought we had pretty much covered everyone who’d pinned something to his cap or uniform (Billy Martin, Bucky …
Gimme Fives
We all know about the Negro Leagues. But what you might not know about — or at least I didn’t until reader Jordan Woodson recently brought it to my attention, …
PING… Ping… ping… [THUD]
[Editor’s Note: Just learned that this week’s ESPN column, which was originally slated to run on Thursday, is instead running today — here’s the link. Meanwhile, today’s blog entry is …
Uni Watch Cold Case Files: The Scarlet Letter
If you read the February 26th issue of Sports Illustrated, you may have seen the photo displayed at right. Taken in 1965, it shows several Dodgers taking part in spring …
Patchwork
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: Got an interesting note the other day from reader Steve Shanabruch: “Check out these football and baseball patches that my digital …
‘How Are They Gonna Know I’m a Hurricane?!’
As many of you have heard by now, Miami will have new football uniforms next season. Naturally, it’s premature to judge a set simply on the basis of an illustration …
Don’t Eat Any Yellow Snow Green Ice
Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, which means MLB teams will be wearing green uniforms. Some minor league hockey and basketball teams will probably get into the act too, along with …
Patch Job
As most of you know, I don’t collect jerseys, caps, or anything like that. If I were going to go down that road, I’d probably focus on jersey patches — …