By now most of you know that Florida State will be wearing a special solid-black uniform against Boston College on October 21st. The new design, supposedly a tribute to the …
Category: Sleeves
That Was the Year That Was
With MLB’s regular season now over, I think we can say with some degree of certainty that this has been the best year in baseball history — at least from …
Wrestlemania
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 …
Who Wears Short Shorts?
Everyone knows about the White Sox’s one-game experiment wearing shorts in 1976. But you might not know that the Chisox weren’t the only professional baseball team to wear shorts, nor …
Think Pink
Everyone’s youth features some sort of traumatic memory that causes lasting damage for years to come, whether it’s witnessing a horrific car crash or walking in on your parents at …
Dear Pedro: The Check Is in the Mail
With the Mets finally back home, it’s time to revisit our Pedro Martinez Relief Fund project. As you’ll recall, Pedro was recently fined $5000 for stretching his pant cuffs down …
And They Lost Their Seeing Eye Dogs, Too
Football games take place once a week; hockey and basketball games, once every few days. Only baseball games take place every single day, which means there’s no time to find …
From a Sleeve to a Slip (or: Nike Must Die, Part 318)
I hadn’t planned on posting anything during the holiday weekend, but here’s a bit of breaking news that just can’t wait: The ongoing scandal of Nike’s accursed dot-matrix undersleeves (which …
Turn That Frown Upside-Down
When it comes to ineptitude, you might say the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are experts. But they really outdid themselves last night. The unlucky victim was Jae Seo, who was …
Something Up His Sleeve
Uni-driven pandemonium at Shea Stadium yesterday, as Baltimore outfielder Ed Rogers’s jersey figured prominently in a key play. The follies began when David Wright hit a line drive to left, …
And They’d Have Added a “No Moustaches” Rule If Morrison Hadn’t Declared for the Draft
Like Moses coming down from the mountaintop with the Ten Commandments, the NCAA periodically issues new rules and regulations, and they just came out with the latest set of pronouncements …
All-Maddon Team
Not since the glory days of Harry Caray (right) has baseball had such an amusingly bespectacled character as Devil Rays skipper Joe Maddon. A nice-seeming man who’s somehow impossible to …
Royals Pitcher Can’t Take Any More, Sends Out Desperate Uni-Borne Distress Signal
Carl Keenan posted a comment yesterday about the American flag patches worn on MLB caps for Memorial Day. In case you missed it, he wrote: “During the 9th inning of …