Month: January 2008

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: Everyone loves to hear about unusual NOBs, like Andy Messersmith’s “Channel” or Elvin Hayes’s “E” (complete with history’s biggest quote marks). …

Ah, Super Bowl Media Day — otherwise known as “the price we pay for having a free press.” I’m sure there are sillier rituals out there, but thinking of them …

I like curling. The rocks (striped!), the brooms, the target (very mod, don’tcha know). Too bad the uniforms are so lame-o. Ah, but it didn’t used to be that way. …

The NHL All-Star Game was last night, but I found the uniforms to be unremarkable at best (and besides, I was busy participating in Soup Night for most of the …

I know what you’re thinking, Antonio Pierce. You want to wear that visor in the Super Bowl. “It’s just for practice,” you say. Sure it is. Indoor practice, where added …

Perhaps it’s because I’m old(ish), never really played basketball, and lack enthusiasm in general, but I’ve never figured out the jersey-popping thing. Yes, we know you play for the Celtics. …

Three readers have gotten in touch over the past few days to tell me that they attended the U.S. Pond Hockey Championships, which took place last weekend in Minneapolis. If …

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 …

On the “Dressed to the Nines” page devoted to patches, there’s a small paragraph that reads as follows: In 1945, former servicemen Peanuts Lowrey, Paul Gillespie and Mickey Livingston of …

It’s not often that I run a lead item with no photo links. But reader Mark Snider sent me a really interesting communiqué the other day, and it deserves showcase …

[Editor’s Note: As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of the writings of Dave “Large” Larzelere, which appear daily on the No Mas blog. He e-mailed me during …

They should probably rethink this whole college basketball thing. Texas A&M in black, Kansas State in … white, I guess. Bad doesn’t do it justice. On an otherwise delightful day …

The man in this tableau is James Goodloe, which matters more for identification purposes than for storytelling. Anyway, he’s shown readying his electric football squad before a game in December. …

By Bryan Redemske There’s a guy in my office who rattles off lineups and stats when you start talking about baseball teams from the 1950s and ’60s. There’s another guy …

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: I’ve written several times about uniform prototypes that were produced but never used on the field of play (if you missed …