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Fridays With Morris

[Editor’s Note: Morris Levin will be contributing an article each Friday while Paul takes his break. Enjoy! ”” Phil Hecken] “No, I just meant Miami….. what did you just say?” …

Who ARE These Guys?

By Phil Hecken, with Rick Pearson As we wrap up 2010, I’m joined by Ricko, as he and I join forces for our year-end quiz. It’s been a while since …

I Don’t Think Don Draper Worked on Any of These

I recently came across a bunch of old uniform ads from assorted sporting goods brands. I started to add them to the Ticker and thought to myself, “Terry Proctor’s gonna …

Because Nothing Says Cool Like a Middlebrow White Guy

Got a DVD in the mail the other day from reader Kevin Gallo. It contained several uni-related baseball video clips from 1983, including one that by all rights should be …

“The Rose Goes In The Front, Big Guy”

By Phil Hecken & Rick Pearson Classic line, classic movie. Said by Crash Davis to Nuke Laloosh in “Bull Durham.” Great baseball movie, nice unis. Some sports movies just strike …

Final Score: Cowboys 24, Giants 14

New York football Giants equipment director Joe Skiba recently sent me a serious blast from the past: a 1976 Giants program. Naturally, it’s full of interesting tidbits, so let’s take …

Flood City Film Festival

[Ed. Note: Tonight is the annual Academy Awards presentation. In celebration of this, Doug Keklak approached me about authoring a piece detailing two movies near and dear to him, one …

Game Theory

Still don’t fully understand yesterday’s tech hiccup, but let’s hope it’s behind us. Sorry for any hassle. Now then: I’m several weeks late with this, but Will Radie checked in …

Monday Morning Uni Watch: Super Bowl Edition

Okay, so maybe the red-trimmed uniforms aren’t so bad after all. Pretty good game, right? After it was over, I went out and did what any Giants fan would do: …

Kicking It Around

By Vince Grzegorek About a week ago, I wrote a blog for my humble little alternative weekly in Cleveland about why no reasonable fan should care that LeBron’s new Nike …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

For most of my life, I feel like color schemes have pretty much made sense. There are color combos I really like, like green/gold/maroon, and ones that I don’t like, …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

Big uni-related story in the NFL yesterday was the range of Sean Taylor memorials. Here’s a quick rundown: • The Redskins wore a “21” jersey patch. The Redskins’ coaching staff …

None of the Above

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: The people were encouraged to vote, they let their voices be heard, and then a bunch of higher-ups decided to hijack …

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 …

Green-360, on One

I can’t imagine why anyone would want to watch something as completely irrelevant as the Hall of Fame game, which is pointless even by NFL exhibition standards. But it’s a …