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Category: Undershirts

Coming Soon: The Bronze Jockstrap

Bonus ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: There are lots of trophies with equipment-based imagery (like the Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards), and several more featuring balls …

Collar My World

Uni Watch readers continue to impress, as Chad Morris has come through with screen shots of the collared undershirt worn last Sunday by Will Smith (not by Charles Grant, as …

Popeye by Numbers

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 …

History Lesson

A few weeks ago, reader Thomas Harding referred me to a photo on a web site I’d never encountered before. Frankly, I no longer recall which photo it was, because …

Of Bears and Hounds

Yesterday I interviewed Under Armour founder/prexy Kevin Plank for a business article I’m working on. He had a lot of interesting things to say, none of which I can divulge …

Muy Loco

In case you somehow missed it on E!, the big uni-related news yesterday was that Chad Johnson wore an “ocho cinco” nameplate during pregame warm-ups (that’s “eight five,” in case …

Future Schlock

Okay, so I didn’t expect the NHL to come up with an All-Star Game jersey design as cool as the one shown at right, which was used 1950 (here’s a …

Ralph Waldo Emerson: MLB Logo Designer?

Yesterday’s ESPN column about the different versions of the Tigers’ old English D logo (which, incidentally, should have included a shout-out to Jeffrey Sak, who first brought this issue to …

Sleeves of Shame

Special World Series Uni Watch column on ESPN today, addressing two issues that have been discussed at great length around here lately. Here’s the link. Meanwhile: Back when I was …

Tuck Rule, NBA Version

Those purple unis aren’t the only thing the Bucks will be leaving behind this season. That news comes courtesy of Trail Blazers play-by-play man Mike Barrett, who has a blog …

Nike to ‘Honor’ Seminole Tribe (Sort of Like Andrew Jackson ‘Honored’ the Cherokees)

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 …

What’s Printed on a Fancy-Shmancy Four-Color Press and Read All Over?

New ESPN column today (a day earlier than usual, to coincide with the start of the NHL season) — here’s the link. Meanwhile: I have only two phobias. One of …

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 …

Tag Play

If you go to Old Navy, or to J. Crew, or virtually anyplace that sells T-shirts, you’ll find that shirt manufacturers are switching to screened-on tags, instead of sewn-on. Hanes …

He Missed the Tag, He Missed the Tag!!

They say almost every baseball game features something you’ve never seen before. That was certainly true yesterday in Boston, where Red Sox starter Kyle Snyder spent the entire first inning …