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The Right and Wrong Ways to Wear Green on March 17

Click to enlarge There are two primary ways for MLB teams to mark St. Paddy’s Day. The first, as exemplified by both teams in yesterday’s Tigers/Phillies game (see above), is …

Auction Catalog Reveals Rare MLB Uni Gems

For all photos, click to enlarge The photo shown above is of Yankees shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh. We can tell it’s from 1918 because he’s wearing the red, white, and blue …

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 …

A Uni Watch Look at Marvelous Marvin Hagler

Embed from Getty Images Good morning, and happy Ides of March from Uni Watch HQ, where all three inhabitants continue to be safe and well. Hope everything is also good …

Z89Design’s ‘ColorTown’ NHL Redesigns, Volume I

By Phil Hecken, with Quinn Zielonko Follow @PhilHecken Good Sunday morning, Uni Watchers. Hope everyone is still doing well and you remembered to push your manual clocks ahead an hour …

What’s Your Sign(ature): Cincinnati Bengals

By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken Greetings everyone! Hope you and yours are staying safe. For those who have been reading Uni Watch for some time, you are aware I’ve run …

Thomas Davis ‘Suits Up’ as a Panther One Last Time

Click to enlarge Longtime NFL linebacker Thomas Davis, who spent the first 13 of his 15 pro seasons with the Panthers, returned to Carolina yesterday to sign one of those …

NBA Unveils Latest Set of Merch-Dump Uniforms

The NBA finally went ahead yesterday and unveiled this season’s Participation Trophy uniforms. These are the designs that 16 teams get to wear for making the playoffs last season, wheeee! …

What It’s Like to Be a Colorblind Sports Fan

In the last week’s episode of Unified, Chris and I briefly mentioned the famous 2015 Jets/Bills game in which the teams went mono-green vs. mono-red, thus creating serious visual problems …

Brinke Guthrie’s Spectacular Big Red Machine Artwork

Click to enlarge In 1973, the Cincinnati Reds — the Big Red Machine — won the National League’s Western Division title for third time in four years. They soon unveiled …

Uni-verse Rocked by Wave of New NFL Leaks

For all photos in this section, click to enlarge Good morning! Greetings from Uni Watch HQ, where all three inhabitants continue to be safe and well (and where one inhabitant …

Kickin’ It in 2021: Your NBA ASG Sneaker Guide

By Phil Hecken, with Matthew Weidner Follow @PhilHecken Good Sunday morning, Uni Watch readers. Hope all is well with one and all. Well, it’s that time of year again: time …

A Color Consistency Test for the Power 5

By Phil Hecken, with Ian Lee Follow @PhilHecken Greetings and good Saturday Morning, Uni Watchers. I hope all of you and yours are doing well. I myself have been a …

Tales from the Dream Shop: Restoring a Buried Treasure

For all photos, click to enlarge It’s been much too long since we’ve had a guest entry from baseball jersey restorer extraordinaire Bill Henderson, whose business, the Dream Shop, has …

It’s Not Orcket Science: A Jersey Typo for the Ages

OH COME ON https://t.co/dfoZ04pOc8 pic.twitter.com/CkVOzuV7bE — Taylor Pate (@taylorlpate) March 3, 2021 About skatey-eight jillion people yesterday sent me the tweet shown above — clearly a classic of its type. …