In today’s Ticker: Kyrie Irving has a new (old) number, an incredible high school throwback game in Kentucky, and another F1 team unveils its livery for the upcoming season.
Uni Watch News Ticker for Feb. 7, 2023
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Baseball
MLB
- This post recaps all of the new number assignments for the Dodgers.
- Teams have formally unveiled this year’s spring training caps, several days after designs leaked.
- In a related item, the Astros are selling designs featuring both the Grapefruit and Cactus League patches. (From @rsjrDK)
- The video game MLB The Show 23 will feature the Negro Leagues in its storyline feature this year. (From Andrew Cosentino and our own Anthony Emerson)
- The Cubs’ 1971 road jerseys, which had the uni number centered instead of offset, were the subject of some broadcaster chatter in this 1971 video clip. (From Dave Ebert)
Minors
- A new Atlantic League club that will begin play in Frederick County, Md., this season, has unveiled five finalists for their team name. Since it will take time to get uniforms once they have a name, that linked story includes a photo of the team’s temporary unis.
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- Colombia and Cuba played a very bright and bold color-on-color matchup in the Caribbean Series yesterday. (From @viceforever88)
Football
NFL
- This story recaps the NFL’s decision to move away from unique Super Bowl logos and toward a templated design. (From Kary Klismet)
- Speaking of Super Bowl logos, here’s a best to worst ranking of all of them.
- The Texans are looking to hire a graphic designer. Interesting that they used their red alternate helmet for that post. (From Lee Wilds)
College
- The 1972 Rose Bowl was the 50th in the game’s history. To commemorate the anniversary, they painted a giant “50” birthday cake at midfield. Something satisfying about a big 50 to mark the 50-yard line, no? (From Daniel Gipson)
Hockey
NHL
- The Devils have come up with the best “player of the game” award. (From our own Jerry Wolper)
Minors/Juniors
- The Sarnia Sting of the OHL wore their fan-designed “Your Team Your Jersey” uniforms on Sunday. (From Wade Heidt)
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- Team Trans is a hockey team in Minnesota made up entirely of transgender and nonbinary players. Their uniforms include pink and blue striping and a logo that features a unicorn housed within the state of Minnesota. (From Steven Lobejko)
Basketball
NBA
- After wearing No. 11 with the Nets, Kyrie Irving will return to wearing No. 2 with his new team, the Mavs.
- Bulls C Andre Drummond was wearing a jeweled nose stud on the court during last night’s game. I can’t find any other instances in which he’s done that this season, though he does have a nose ring in his official team photo this year. (From Erik Spoonmore)
College
- Last night, the NC State women wore BFBS uniforms with pink numbers, lettering, and trim for their annual “Play4Kay Game,” in honor of former coach Kay Yow, who died of cancer in 2009. Wolfpack players also wore inspirational NOBs. Interestingly, their opponent, Virginia Tech, did not wear pink-trimmed uniforms and instead went with white on the road. Some players did wear pink accessories, however. (From Sam Mills)
- Arkansas men’s will wear new road uniforms featuring a throwback logo tonight at Kentucky. (From @HogFlashbacks)
- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley men will wear throwbacks on Thursday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their 1962-63 NAIA national championship. (From Evan Fleming)
G League
- The Iowa Wolves will wear uniforms that pay homage to the state’s “role in computing history” as part of their Education Day Game today.
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- Fantastic-looking boys’ high school throwback game in Kentucky on Saturday, as Floyd Central High School hosted Knott Central High School in historic Wayland Gymnasium. The gym is on the former campus of Wayland High School, which closed in 1972. Floyd Central wore Wayland uniforms, while Knott Central wore Hindman High uniforms to honor another since-closed school. (From Lucas Stoller)
- New uniforms for the And One youth basketball program in Livingston, N.J. (From Kary Klismet)
Soccer
International
- Argentina: New kits for top flight men’s club Newell’s Old Boys. (From Kary Klismet)
- Ecuador: New kits for CSD Independiente del Valle. (From Ed Zelaski)
- Indonesia: Wild new third uniforms for PSIS Semarang of Liga 1. (From Kary Klismet)
- Jamaica: The Jamaica Football Federation has unveiled the national teams’ new uniforms for 2023. (From Kary Klismet and Ed Żelaski)
- Serbia: Red Star Belgrade wore gold badges on their kits this past weekend to honor former star player Sinisa Mihajlovic, who died recently at the age of 53. (From Kary Klismet)
- South Korea: New uniforms for Daegu FC of K League 1. (From Kary Klismet)
Auto Racing
- F1 racing team Williams unveiled its 2023 livery yesterday. (From Russ Flynn)
- New F1 livery for Alfa Romeo. (From Russ Flynn or our own Anthony Emerson)
Grab Bag
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard will wear climate change-themed race suits at the Alpine World Championships.
- Coal City Middle School in Illinois has changed its team name from the Warriors to the Coalers. (From Kary Klismet)
- New logo for the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association National Championship.
- Here’s an interesting look at teams and brands that have similar logos. (Thanks to all who shared)
Comments (30)
That Uber logo article is from 2016…
Thanks. Removed.
“…and a logo that features a uniform housed within the state of Minnesota.” Should read unicorn.
Fixed.
I actually don’t mind most of the Spring Training caps this year. I just wish they weren’t mesh back.
MLB/New Era are diabolical with these mesh caps. Cheaper materials but sold at full price. And as we saw last year, the caps don’t even protect your head from the sun.
Full price? More like a premium! You could feed a family with what you pay for a simple ballcap.
Four candles on that 50th anniversary cake is eating at me.
The Beanpot semifinal between Northeastern and Boston University featured alternate throwback sweaters for both schools, the 80’s look for the Huskies and the 70’s look for the Terriers. Outstanding visuals.
Love that logo at the Rose Bowl for the 50th. Remember how the Rose Bowl, alone among the bowl games, used to use a different midfield rose logo every year? One year they even used yellow roses instead of red. They also had roses in the end zones along with the team name. Then they went the stylized corporate route, and it’s been dull as dishwater since.
That’s as may be, but it seems that the colors are still richer, and the graphics sharper, than any other bowl game’s
Re: Drummond.
Since NFL, NHL, and MLB players wear necklaces and earrings during the game, I’ve wondered why NBA players don’t. Well, it’s in the rulebook — Rule 2, Section II (b), under the duties of the officials: “The officials shall not permit players to play with any type of jewelry.”
I can’t believe NFL players in particular are allowed to wear necklaces. That sounds like a terrible accident waiting to happen.
I posted the 2nd half pic in another Tweet that showed him without it in. I wonder if he just forgot to take it out, but nobody noticed?
All of the naming options for the Frederick minor league club are decent to fantastic… except for the Screaming Alpacas, which is the name they will almost certainly choose.
What was wrong with the Keys?
“Here’s an interesting look at teams and brands that have similar logos.”
When the Vancouver Canucks unveiled the Johnny Canuck shoulder patch logo for the alternates introduced in 2008, we could not help but notice the logo reminding us of Vachon Bakery. A snackmaker in Canada.
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OMG that new Jamaica kit is INCREDIBLE
I need both pair of socks.
The Cubs had centered numbers on the front of their jerseys in 1972, not ’71. It was their first double-knit set. It made sense to take advantage of a pullover with no buttons to interfere, but the next season they anachronistically put the numbers off to the side again.
I’d heard the numbers were originally meant to be flushed right, but when they realized the manufacturer’s mistake, they said, “Ah, screw it, these are good enough.”
The 50th Rose Bowl was in 1964. So the photo is either from ’64 edition or it’s from another game.
As I recall from watching the game at the time, I think it was the 50th Rose Bowl to be played in the stadium itself, since the first Rose Bowl played there was January 1, 1923
I stand corrected. Now looking back, 2022 was the 100th anniversary of the Rose Bowl Stadium, so 1972 Rose Bowl game was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stadium itself
I’m just happy that the NFL has “seen the light” so to speak and have returned some color and creativity to the Super Bowl logos again. I do understand the thinking and trying to keep the Lombardi trophy the main focus of the game but, it just came off so bland and boring. (and even worse looking when painted on the field).
Don’t mess it up Las Vegas!
The MLB website is also showing two different caps for the Minnesota Twins…the old M and the new M.
Clearly Screaming Alpacas is the best name for that Atlantic League club!
“People” have said that the Brewers have a tendency to crib logo looks:
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I think their marks were distinct enough…never thought they were copy cats.
Hey Paul,
Did I miss a little blurb about the Royals going full powder blue this year?
Just checking.
I covered that on Saturday. First sublede: link