…or: the one where the Pirates let us down while winning an exciting ballgame on a dazzling Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh ~~~~~ [Editor’s Note: Phil here, subbing for Paul on …
Category: Culinary Corner
Columbus Sailed All the Way Here for This?
The Brewers and Diamondbacks decided to play a spring training game in July yesterday. Or at least that’s how it looked at Miller Park, where it was Italian Heritage Day. …
III-peat?
The fallout from last week’s ESPN column about Robert Griffin III’s RNOB and a brief history of nickNOBs continued over the weekend. One thing at a time: • Reader James …
Auction Action
Click to enlarge The image shown above is from a 1918 circus poster, and it’s probably the most bizarre animals-playing-sports illustration I’ve ever seen. I especially love that the elephants …
My Team’s Tied for First, How About Yours?
Today is Opening Day — the real Opening Day, not that Japanese thing from last week or that post-sundown thing from last night. And in honor of this national holiday …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 39
Finally clearing out the last of my wire service backlog. Contributors for this batch include Mark Kluczynski, Mike Hersh, Jerry Wolper, Bill Henderson, Brendan Slattery, Bruce Menard, Warren Humphries, and …
Uni Watch DIY Project: Cave Painting
[Today we have an excellent DIY project by Ryan Connelly. Enjoy! ”” PL] By Ryan Connelly I had a fun project to work on over the holidays, as a friend …
Putting the Buckle on the Rust Belt
During my recent trip to Cleveland, I stopped in to see my friend Steven Tatar, the man behind the very wonderful Ohio Knitting Mills brand. He always has lots of …
And There Isn’t Even Any Blood on It
Click photos to enlarge Over the past few days I’ve made repeated mention of the three-part New York Times series on the life and death of NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard. …
New Threads for Miami
Click to enlarge Tyler Kepner is at the MLB winter meetings, where he spotted something very interesting: a Marlins batting helmet with a raised/embroidered logo, just like the one used …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
I was walking around my neighborhood yesterday when I passed a guy wearing a very nice burgundy cardigan with the Redskins’ script “R” logo on the chest. I’d never seen …
Auction Action
As you may have noticed from the ad in the left sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions have a bunch of new items up for bid. Here are the …
Didn’t Willie Stargell Already Think of This 30 Years Ago?
Those little gold All-Star stars began appearing on MLB jerseys on Monday, and last night we got our first look at the stars on the caps (they didn’t use the …
Uni Watch Profiles: Lynn Farrell
The increasingly indispensable Mike Hersh has found yet another way to be indispensable. Mike’s wife works with woman named Lynn Farrell, who has an unusual line on her résumé: Back …
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, Can’t We Equip a Sewing Machine with Spell-Check?
We all love jersey typos. But you don’t often see typos on retail replicas, in part because any store manager who spotted a misspelled jersey would most likely just send …