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By Phil Hecken Following the failure of the first women’s professional soccer league (WUSA, or “Women’s United Soccer Association”) in 2003, the future of women’s pro soccer in the United States looked bleak. After all, if a league featuring most of the ladies who catapulted USA women’s soccer to the forefront of our . . . → Read More: Kicks For Chicks It all started yesterday afternoon. I was just sitting down to a spot of tea when reader Josh Miller, who makes the announcements on the loudspeaker system at the Giants’ spring training facility in Arizona, sent me this phone-camera shot from the Giants/A’s game he was working. Even from a distance, the focal . . . → Read More: In Which a New Champion Rises to Favour Our Cause If there’s one thing I learned about Pittsburgh during my recent visit, it’s this: The city is nuts about fish. There are fish mosaics in the sidewalk, giant fish sculptures in the Children’s Museum parking lot, and just about all the restaurants in town were touting their fish sandwiches — including burger joints, . . . → Read More: Uni Watch Road Trip Report: Pittsburgh Okay, so the Pittsburgh party report will have to wait, because something really interesting happened late on Monday night (too late for me to write about it in time for yesterday). I promise we’ll get to all the Pittsburgh stuff tomorrow, but today I want to deal with this scene that went down . . . → Read More: Clean ’Plate Club  148 comments - (Comments are closed)  College Hoops, Customization/Modification, General, Jerseys, Player Names/Nameplates And I’m back, just in time to get snowed in. First and foremost: Major, major props to Phil for keeping everything running without a hitch during my absence. You da man, buddy. Pittsburgh was a hoot. I’ll have more to say about that tomorrow, but today I want to showcase the work of . . . → Read More: In Like a Lion, and So On 140 comments - (Comments are closed) Eyewear, Fields, Courts, Etc., History, Jerseys, Player Names/Nameplates By Phil Hecken (back with battery-mate Paul Soto) You may recall a short while ago, I was joined by Paul Soto, UW Graphics Guru, who created some amazing “Fauxback” baseball uniforms. With several teams wearing no city identifier on them, either home or away (like St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Milwaukee, the Angels), and . . . → Read More: The Old Switcheroo By Phil Hecken While we enjoy the breath of fresh air that is spring training in the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues, let us take a trek down memory lane to the spring training days of yore. Some great information exists out there on the history and origins of spring training, and it’s fascinating. . . . → Read More: The Springs of Our Past |
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