Category: Uni Numbers

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 …

For the most part I don’t get too bent out of shape about Adidas’s three stripes. I mean, I like stripes. But last night’s NBA All-Star game was too much. …

Almost every day I get e-mails from readers, telling me about this or that uni development that they’ve noticed. But Zach Smith, who wrote to me yesterday, went a step …

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: One of the highlights of my recent trip to San Francisco was seeing my good friends and Uni Watch ukulele masters …

I don’t mean to get all “I told you so,” but I mentioned that weather forecast back on Friday, did I not? Then again, my uniform-based prediction of the game’s …

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: It’s rare that any genuine football news surfaces in the days before the Super Bowl, but Travis Garnes appears to have …

New ESPN column today tomorrow (my bad, I thought it was gonna run today). Meanwhile: With all the recent fuss about the new NHL uniforms, several readers have mentioned a …

I’ve got a small piece about Media Day on Page 2 today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: What is it about the NFL postseason that causes some cities to completely …

There was big news at last night’s NHL All-Star Game, but it had nothing to do with Reebok’s much-vaunted new uniform system. The real story, flying beneath everyone’s radar, was …

So I’m watching football and looking at old magazines the other day with Uni Watch design director Scott M.X. Turner, and I tell him how reader Byron Wages recently sent …

During Sunday’s Bears/Seahawks game, I got about half a dozen e-mails asking about the “extra nipple” on Lovie Smith’s jacket. Nobody could figure out what it was (neither could I), …

Yesterday’s ESPN column generated so much response that I’ve created an FAQ page for it. To see it, scroll down to the entry immediately after this one. One comment that …

[Editor’s Note: I’ll be off the grid for most of today. Fortunately, intern Vince Grzegorek has cooked up a doozy of an entry. It’s lengthy, but stick with it — …

Consider the humble shoelace. Or better yet, let reader John Muir consider it for you: Look at this picture of Marc Savard in Boston’s home uniform, complete with yellow laces. …

Arthur Farrell’s Hockey: Canada’s Royal Winter Game, published in 1899, is thought to be the first book ever written about hockey. Only four copies are known to exist, none of …