Today in the Ticker: A mid-match outfit change, a classic flip book promotion and new hand-painted helmets for Utah.
Uni Watch News Ticker for August 30, 2022
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Baseball
MLB
- Cubs P Marcus Stroman took a photo with a fan while wearing a red-billed cap — a cap the Cubbies haven’t worn on the field since 2009. (From John Stark)
- Does anyone else remember these double-sided flip books that Topps sold back in the day? This one celebrates Nolan Ryan’s 5,000th strikeout. “I remember being obsessed with it.” (From Rodney Flores).
Minors
- Those in support of forming a minor league player’s union have created T-shirts that employ recognizable MLB team fonts. (From Jimmy Lonetti)
Football
NFL
- A man received three years in the pen for fraudulently obtaining and selling Supe rings with “Brady” engraved on them. (From Max Weintraub)
College
- BYU will wear white helmets, jerseys and pants with navy accents this weekend against South Florida.
- Indiana State will wear white helmets, jerseys and pants in their home opener on Thursday. They’re also encouraging fans to wear white. (From Phil).
- Utah will memorialize former players Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe on hand-painted helmets, which they’ll wear on Oct. 15. Jordan and Lowe, both of whom wore No. 22, died in separate shootings in 2020 and 2021. (From Trent Lowe)
CFL
- The Calgary Stampeders have new black alternate uniforms, and held their unveiling yesterday out on the prairie.
More
- Eisenhower High School in Oklahoma’s helmet design incorporates Oregon-style wings — but some players wear white wings, while others wear red. (From Glen Brockenbush)
- NOF? A five-on-five team in California has a jersey design that incorporates the player’s name on the front of the jersey. (From @viceforever88)
Basketball
NBA
- Rapper Big Sean, the Pistons’ creative director of innovation, says he has designed one of the uniforms that the team will wear on the court this season. That design will be released sometime this fall.
Hockey
NHL
- New mask for the Red Wings’ Ville Husso. (From Brandon Weir)
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- Photographers need protection too! This 1960s photo shows a cameraman wearing a goalie-style mask while shooting a hockey game. (From Brandon Weir)
Soccer
International
- Adidas has released all of the jersey designs it’s producing for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar. In addition, the company also released new designs for the Japanese and German women’s teams. (From our own Jamie Rathjen)
- Puma has also released several away jersey designs that will be worn on the field in Qatar this winter. (From Trevor Williams)
- Speaking of the World Cup, NBC Sports has already ranked their favorite kit designs.
Grab Bag
- With a 1952 Mickey Mantle card selling at auction for a record $12.6 million recently, here are some other pieces of memorabilia that have broken the bank.
- Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano once posed in a Confederate uniform for a photograph at the Army War College, according to reports. Mastriano had not yet retired from the Army at the time the photo was taken.
- A Congressional commission has recommended that West Point and the Naval Academy rename buildings that honor Confederate officers. (From Timmy Donahue)
- Speaking of Pennsylvania politics, those opposing Dr. Oz’s Senatorial campaign have found a creative way to use Oz’s campaign signs. (From our own Anthony Emerson).
- Because tennis players from Russia and Belarus are required to play under a neutral flag at the U.S. Open amid the war in Ukraine, ESPN is not putting the Russian flag/initials next to Daniil Medvedev’s name on the scorebug. (From Lenny Vangilder)
- More from the U.S. Open: Canadian Bianca Andreescu changed midway through her match yesterday and was critical of the design of Nike’s dress to the chair umpire. (From Brinke)
- This video provides a look at one of the largest rare Jordan sneaker collections in the world. (From @RobEdigital)
- America has spoken, and named the Kentucky State Police’s cruiser as the “Best Looking” in America. (From @Wilds_Lee).
Comments (13)
Credit is cut off on the Pistons item.
Husso’s mask is clearly a tribute to Mike Vernon c.1996-97 with the twin wheels on the chin.
And the single wheel with two wings on the forehead.
If you’re going to fraudulently sell Super Bowl rings, you have to go with someone lower in fame than Brady. Everyone knows he’s not selling his rings — he takes a selfie with them like every five days!
are those Puma World Cup jerseys real? they have to be fake, right? that’s sooooo bad.
Those Utah helmets are almost too nice to wear in a game, where they’re just going to get scuffed up.
The Puma and Adidas design teams have dropped down a peg to match FIFA’s selection committee for having the World Cup in Qatar.
Is the green Unionize the Minors shirt based on the Oakland Athletics’ or a Uni Watch design? ;)
In the year of 2022, it’s beyond time the sport of tennis stops forcing its women’s players to wear skirts. Let them play in what they find most supportive and comfortable.
I love the site but lets not get political. If you’re going to post about Mastriano wearing a confederate uniform, explain why. This was at the War College in Carlisle PA. The Senator is an expert in the history of Gettysburg and was instructing a class. It was a photograph of the teaching staff in various historic garb representing the subject they were teaching. Nothing more.
Can you name another country in which military instructors wear the uniforms of traitors for a faculty photo shoot?
I assumed it’s included here, not for its politics, but because it is extraordinarily unusual and he was the only one in an actual uniform.
You think that has absolutely no relationship with Mastriano supporting the Jan. 6 insurrection?
“Mastriano was subpoenaed by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack in February 2022; he stopped cooperating with the select committee in August.”
“At a 2022 campaign event, Mastriano suggested that he might only certify Pennsylvania’s election results if the Republican candidate for president wins.”
From Slate: “in 2020, Mastriano live-streamed himself going to the site of the Gettysburg battle and saluting a group of Confederate flag-waving armed members of the public, who were ostensibly there to prevent an Antifa flag burning. (This was, according to the Washington Post, a social media hoax.)”
The uniform and flag of those who believed that only one tribe should have a vote.
Will there be a 5&1 on Sunday?
Nope. I have Labor Day weekend off. But there will be a 5 & 1 for Week Zerone (zero/one) the following Saturday, and then for Week 2 on Sunday, when SMUW returns!