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Romanian Soccer Team Provides Math Lesson

Click to enlarge Interesting move yesterday by the Romanian soccer team, as players warmed up for the friendly against Spain while wearing jerseys and jackets with various mathematical sequences in …

LeBron James Channels NBA Fans’ Collective Rage, Rips Open Sleeves on His Jersey

Sleeved NBA jerseys: You’re sick of them, I’m sick of them, and now the greatest player on the planet is officially sick of them. That’s the obvious conclusion to draw …

A Unique Uniform Modification

Click to enlarge I always loved watching George Brett hit. The sweet swing, the big chaw of tobacco, the sense that he could wake up at 3am and knock a …

If You Can’t Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve, Wear It on Your Pad

[Editor’s Note: Charles Noerenberg recently submitted a Ticker entry that was so interesting and so well-developed that I’ve decided to turn it into a guest entry. Enjoy. ”” PL] By …

A Small Solution for a Big (East) Problem

Odd scene yesterday in Morgantown, as West Virginia hoops tweeted that they’d be wearing the gold jersey shown above for their afternoon game against Virginia Tech. But as many Uni …

Just When You Thought You’d Seen Everything…

Last week I mentioned how several college hoops players, especially on Under Armour-outfitted teams, were rolling up the waistbands on their shorts, maybe to make their shorts shorter or maybe …

The Fine Line Between Public and Private

Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura was friends with Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras, so Ventura was understandably devastated when he heard about Taveras’s death in a car accident on Sunday. I’m sorry …

How Low Can You Go?

Masahiro Tanaka, the Yanks’ new Japanese import, made his MLB debut on Friday. And as you can see in the two shots above, he was pulling the old Barry Bonds …

De-Chiefers-in-Chief

From top: By Aleks Brown, by Sarah Good, and courtesy of Michael Kaus From top to bottom: Dennis Brown, Keith Good, and Michael Kaus, three Cleveland fans who’ve been “de-Chiefing” …

The Return of the Stargell Stars

Click to enlarge I was all set to say, “You have one of the most beautiful home unis in the sport, you wait over two decades to get into a …

This is Not the Hockey Jersey Advertising You Are Looking For

By Morris Levin Corporate advertising on game jerseys is an active discussion on this site. Paul and others explored rationales against advertising in April 2012. Paul covered the July 2012 …

A Different Kind of Blackout Game

. An interesting college baseball story unfolded over the weekend. I first became aware of it on Friday afternoon, when reader Jonathon Binet pointed me toward this tweet from Baltimore …

John Rocker and Todd Jones Were Unavailable for Comment

A bizarre story began unfolding yesterday afternoon, as a Blue Jays fan who goes by the name James G. posted a Flickr photo he’d taken on Saturday of Jays shortstop …

What’s a Ute?

By Phil Hecken I get a pretty decent amount of uniform concepts (logo concepts, cap concepts, helmet concepts, etc.) sent my way (THANK YOU and keep ’em coming!), and occasionally …

Congratulations, Mr. Delap: It’s a Ball

. Is Rory Delap of Stoke City giving birth to a bouncing baby soccer ball? Nope. Reader Andy Dunbar explains: Stoke City has players who specialize in throw-ins, and they …