The NFL regular season kicks off on Thursday night, and that means it’s time for the annual Uni Watch NFL season preview, which breaks down all the uniform changes for …
Category: Memorials
A Look at Yesterday’s Cubs/Sox Throwback Game
The Cubs and White Sox held the first of their two late-1950s throwback games yesterday. As I explained last week (and as you can see above), all the Cubs wore …
Can’t Tell the Players, Even With a Scorecard
Very interesting storyline yesterday out of the Chicago, where the Cubs and White Sox announced that they’ll be honoring Ernie Banks and Minnie Minoso by wearing late-1950s throwbacks for their …
Well, That Didn’t Take Long
The news of former college basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian’s death had barely hit the wires yesterday when the schools where he coached released the memorial patches that they’ll be wearing …
In the Clover: The Mighty Quinn
Click to enlarge Pat Quinn, who passed away on Sunday, had the distinction of being a coach/GM for two different teams, both of which announced yesterday that they’ll be memorializing …
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 …
A Black Cross for the Vols
Courtesy of the Tennessee Athletics Dept.; click to enlarge When I wrote last week about Arknsas State modifying a cross-shaped memorial decal due to Constitutional issues, several readers noted that …
Do Not Cross: Arkansas State Memorial to Be Modified
If you read the Ticker closely and have a good memory, you may recall that about two weeks ago Arkansas State added a new memorial helmet decal for player Markel …
Adios, Mr. Padre
Tony Gwynn, who passed away yesterday at the absurdly young age of 54, was the greatest pure hitter I ever saw. Watching him play, it always seemed like he could …
A Patch for Dr. Jack
Sometimes you see a memorial patch and think, “Yup, they nailed that one.” That was my initial thought with the Trail Blazers’ patch for Dr. Jack Ramsay, which was released …
Malware? No — Mal-wear!
My annual college football season-preview column for ESPN, this year’s edition of which will run today, is always my biggest column of the year. It’s also the most frantic and …
A Closer Look at MLB Patch Sharing
First and foremost: If you’ve been having any technical trouble with the site, please try clearing your browser’s cache. Should solve it. Sorry for the hassle. Now then: As daily …
What’s the Proper Response, If Any, to a Non-Sports Tragedy?
Over the past couple of days, there have been at least three teams that have acknowledged real-world tragedies on their uniforms, or at least announced plans to do so: • …
Patchwork
There were lots of patch- and logo-related developments around the sports word yesterday, with several of them coming from the NHL draft. One at a time: • The Ducks unveiled …
Would the Modern Version Have a Cell Phone?
Reader Dennis Hasty sent me something completely awesome the other day: an old photo of a Cuban baseball player who played for a team owned by the local phone company …