The league’s annual showcase featured a uni-driven tribute to Brittney Griner, who’s still being held in Russia.
Category: WNBA
The WNBA Expansion Project
For all images, click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have a rare weekday appearance by weekend editor Phil Hecken, who has a great project that just couldn’t wait until …
WNBA Marks Milestone Season With Very Odd Logo
The WNBA yesterday announced a series of measures to celebrate the league’s upcoming 25th season, which will begin later this year (the schedule hasn’t yet been released). The program’s primary …
Uni Design of the Year Consists of Seven Red Dots
Click to enlarge Paul here, making a rare August appearance. I had planned to run something else at the top of today’s post, but the real world had other ideas. …
Naming Right or Wrong? Seattle Arena Gets New Moniker
Seattle’s new NHL franchise is set to hit the ice at the start of the 2021-22 season. We still don’t know what the team’s name will be (the latest word …
WNBA Takes Radical Step of Putting Team Logos on Unis
Click to enlarge For years now it’s been impossible to take the WNBA seriously from a uniform standpoint because most of the teams didn’t even have their team names, team …
Future of Unis? When Every Game is Color vs. Color?
By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken To almost no fanfare (at least not to my knowledge), last Monday the WNBA (now entering its 20th Season) announced that it was introducing new …
Uni Watch Exclusive — New NBA and WNBA Leaks
About a month ago someone sent me some graphics that he claimed to be from the Clippers’ upcoming redesign. I wrote back to this person — let’s call him Source …
Do You Know There’s a Championship Round Currently Underway?
Back in early July, I ran a Ticker item about the top-selling WNBA jerseys and then sarcastically added, “Yeah, except that the top ‘top-selling’ WNBA jersey only moved about 17 …
Lime-Hued Blast from Recent Past
Remember that April Fool’s joke I pulled exactly two months ago? Maybe it wasn’t a joke after all. Or maybe it gave somebody some ideas. That’s the question floating around …
Game of Shadows
So I was looking through the membership card gallery the other day, and I was suddenly struck by something I’d never noticed before: Most of the drop shadows and block …
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 …
Gateway City Report
Tuesday was a very good day. I arrived in St. Louis at about 9:40 a.m. and headed straight for Liebe Athletic Lettering. This was just a “getting acquainted” visit, so …
Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
The WNBA preseason begins today, and the league kicked things off yesterday by unveiling a new set of uniforms for all the teams. The truth: I don’t really give a …
‘So once you do know what the question actually is, you’ll know what the answer means’
I’ve got a short ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile, here’s a quick quiz: When Jackie Robinson’s No. 42 was retired on an MLB-wide basis 10 years ago, …