Have there ever been a worse helmet design match-up than last night’s Fiesta Bowl? Woof. Fortunately, the game featured a few uni-notable aspects: • Boise State wore orange pants for …
Category: Undershirts
Somewhere, Patrick Ewing Is Smiling (or maybe just taking a nap, whatever)
Here’s something I forgot to mention in last Friday’s NBA entry: Players in Saturday’s Suns/Warriors preseason game, which was played outdoors, had official permission to wear long undersleeves — an …
See Spot Run
Something weird is going on with the Tigers (besides the fact that they’re flushing their postseason hopes down the crapper). It involves that little orange dot on the crown of …
Anyone Who Posts an ‘Agony of da Feet’ Comment Today Gets Permanently Tossed from the Site
Look closely at the photo shown above and you’ll notice something odd: The player (who happens to be Titans linebacker Ryan Fowler) has cut holes in the tips of his …
Preseason Ponderings
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 …
Switching to a Completely Predictable Color Scheme Is the New Black
Jerry Glanville has always been such a blowhard. The whole “Man in Black” thing, leaving a ticket for Elvis, driving a replica of James Dean’s car — a shtick as …
Quick Change Artist
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Plus I also have a review of last night’s No Mas event on today’s Page 2 index page. Meanwhile: Great little uniform-related …
They Play Like a Mickey Mouse Team, So….
You probably know that the Devil Rays played a few “home” games in Orlando last week at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex, which, despite having only 9000 seats, …
Alas, my love you do me wrong / To cast me off discourteously
So here’s a little something: In last Friday’s ticker, I mentioned that Arizona State shortstop Andrew Romine had been wearing green sleeves (as shown at right) a few days earlier, …
Uni Watch Profile: Stefan Fatsis
(Photo: Andrew Mason/Denverbroncos.com) In 1963, the writer George Plimpton (known to the younger ones among you as “that guy who keeps saying, ‘And a hot plate!’ during the spelling bee …
Don’t Eat Any Yellow Snow Green Ice
Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, which means MLB teams will be wearing green uniforms. Some minor league hockey and basketball teams will probably get into the act too, along with …
Upstairs, Downstairs
Okay, I give in. I had hoped to stay above the whole “System of Dress” fray, but it now seems unavoidable, especially with Syracuse’s new duds having made their on-court …
I’m So Happy About the Site Being Back to Normal, I’m Even Saying Good Things About Nike
After all the hassles caused by the Nike-pox sleeves last season, I’ve been wondering if they’d be back this year. I hadn’t seen any sign of them in spring training …
If Ron Hodges Could Do It, How Hard Could It Be?
The term we all hear tossed around this time of year is “pitchers and catchers,” but let’s be honest: The catchers are mostly incidental. The only reason they’re there is …
So Much for that ‘Sun Devils’ Moniker
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: As I was working on some other stuff late last night, I got an e-mail from reader Mark Surra, who had …