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Category: Team Logos/Insignia

Land of 1000 Laeks

Looks like we’re gonna have to give an honorary Uni Watch membership to former MLB player Denny Hocking. While watching Friday night’s Twins/Angels game, he noticed something that almost everyone …

My Only Gripe: Zero Sightings of Tonya Harding

Hello there. One week, one wedding, two days of record-breaking Portland heat (one of them spent in a jacket and tie — ugh), one Uni Watch party, one astonishingly large …

Death, Taxes, and Wagner Blowing the Save

So I’m watching the All-Star Game last night with my buddy Large from No Mas. We haven’t seen each other since February (he lives in California these days), so I’m …

The ® Chronicles, Continued

As many of you know, we’re lucky to have a trademark attorney in the Uni Watch readership. That would be Anthony Verna (who, in addition to his legal practice, has …

Chicago Cubs: Lovable … Innovators?

By Bryan Redemske As a Cubs fan, I often find myself on the wrong of end futility-related jokes, where losses are explained as, “Hey, it’s the Cubs. Of course they’re …

Because Some Exhibition Games Are More Exhibitionistic Than Others

The Yankees played an exhibition game up at Virginia Tech yesterday, and there were lots of uni-related oddities. Dig: • Both teams wore their home pinstripes. This reminds me of …

Which Is the Greater Exercise in Futility: the Pro Bowl, or the Pro Bowlers Tour?

It remains one of the sports world’s enduring mysteries: Every year the NFL selects the best players at each position, gathers them together for an all-star game in Honolulu, and …

Prototypes Revisited

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: I’ve written several times about uniform prototypes that were produced but never used on the field of play (if you missed …

Mo day Mor i g U i Watch

Anyone got a spare n? That was the question yesterday in Buffalo, where Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw spent most of the game with only a partial logo on the …

Coming Soon: Oscar Gamble Wig Night

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: As we all know by now, baseball has fallen out of favor with black Americans, at least as a participatory sport. …

CSI: Hofstra

We’ve all heard about the NFL’s “uniform police.” But when you see articles about them (like this one, which I linked to a few weeks back), they tend to give …

And Look, There’s a Young Marge Schott in the Front Row

A couple of Sunday nights ago at about 10 p.m., someone posted a comment that read, “Women’s Nazi Hockey Team.” It linked to the photo shown at right (here’s a …

FNOB Revisited

A few weeks ago I ran an entry about players who’ve worn their full names on their jerseys (or FNOB, short for “full name on back”). That post prompted so …

In the Red

[Editor’s Note: I was out of town with no internet access for the past three days and am still catching up on stuff, so Vince is gonna pinch-hit for today’s …

Or as Chad Johnson Would Put It, León Negro

Aside from conference logos and the like, it’s not often that you see two players on different teams wearing the same jersey patch. But that’s the case with Kansas State’s …