Category: Purple = Death

By Phil Hecken The next in line for the Nike Amateur Pacifist costume is LSU, who are playing SEC rival Auburn today, down in the Bayou. And they’ll be wearing …

By Phil Hecken While soliciting column ideas from readers, one of the first to approach me was Jeremy Brahm, who is probably familiar to all of you as our “Pacific …

By Phil Hecken With good reason, Paul pretty much ignores all those “Worst Uniform” lists we see on other websites, and to my knowledge, he’s never compiled such a list …

Ladies and gentlemen, our long national nightmare is over. Confession: I’ve known about this change since early December, when a little birdie told me about it but swore me to …

By Phil Hecken with James Huening Just two short weeks ago, I and UW Pollster James Huening presented our latest poll: Worst Uniform Combination Ever. The results are in. You …

By Vince Grzegorek As a fan, you might wear a ballcap when you go out to watch your favorite team. But for reasons of logic and convenience, you only bring …

Now that the first slate of NFL preseason games has been played, a few new developments have come to light (aside from those green dots on QBs’ helmets, which we’ve …

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 …

Among the many annoying things in American politics these days, one of the most irksome is the lazy shorthand of “red states” vs. “blue states.” It’s a false dichotomy, since …

It was a small item — just one sentence, in fact — buried in the middle of an article about the Devil Rays in Sunday’s St. Petersburg Times. But it …

It was no surprise that those Bills throwbacks looked awesome yesterday (you can bask a bit more in their magnificence here, here, here, and here). But it was surprising, at …

I’ve never given much thought to sumo “uniforms,” because the combatants basically just wear diapers. Okay, so there are different colors (including you know what), along with the occasional bit …

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: Ladies and gentlemen, there’s a new hosiery hero in our midst. That would be Brian Tallet of the Blue Jays, who …

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 …

Last month we discussed several ballplayers whose caps have had a tendency to fall off, including Mike MacDougal, Jim Bouton, and John Pacella. (For those who missed it, the full …