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Month: October 2009

Design-A-Uniform Contest

By Phil Hecken You guys will recall several weeks ago I ran a “Design-A-Cap” contest, for Coach Jerome Nemanich and his Sartell Sabres, and the results were outstanding. Reader Marc …

The Sweet Science Never Looked Sweeter

Today is the 35th anniversary of a seminal sports event: the Rumble in the Jungle, which pitted George Foreman against Muhummad Ali in Kinshasa, Zaire. And No Mas honcho Chris …

The Shirt Off His Back

[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from Thomas weeks, who had a remarkable uni-related encounter on the streets of New York last week. — PL] By Thomas Weeks …

‘Are you running for something, Mr. Caple?’ ‘No, CC — are you?’

Tremendous moment at Yankee Stadium yesterday, as my ESPN colleague Jim Caple and CC Sabathia had the following exchange during an afternoon press conference (you can watch the exchange by …

No Shots of Jane Goodall Playing Tennis with a Chimp, But Still…

Brothers and sisters, I am excited to announce that reader Zac Neubauer has made a remarkable discovery, to wit: Noted soft-porn magazine National Geographic, in addition to photographing all those …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

Fairly quiet day in the NFL yesterday: Got our first looks at the Chargers’ and Jets’ road throwbacks (both really nice, right?), and this year’s London game featured a new …

History Lesson: Why Getting It Right Does Matter

By Phil Hecken, with Tim Brulia and Rick Pearson It struck Ricko and me at about the same time. We were trading E-mails before the Denver Broncos played the San …

Road Uni Poll Results … And Please Tell Us: What’s The Worst. Uni. Ever.?

By Phil Hecken & James Huening, with Adam Walter Back again with UW pollster James Huening, who is here to tell us the results of our second Uni Watch poll, …

Open Door Policy: A Remembrance

This is O’Connor’s, my longtime local watering hole. It looks slightly different now — a new sign and awning, a new front door — but this is how it looked …

Smell the Glove (if that’ll help you solve the mystery)

Got an interesting note the other day from reader Matthew Strauss, who attended last Sunday’s Pats/Titans game. I’ll let him explain: I was lucky enough to get field-level seats right …

Seeing Red, in All Its Wide Variety

As most of you know, I’ve been trying to compile a visual catalog of hockey red line designs. It’s an interesting project, because the blue lines are always solid blue, …

Tuesday Morning Uni Watch

There was some discussion of this in the comments yesterday afternoon and, especially, last night. But as I often have to remind myself, many (most?) of the site’s readers don’t …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

I had a pretty good weekend (more on that later), but it would’ve been even better if I’d seen the Pats/Titans-as-Oilers game yesterday. In addition to the great throwback uniforms, …

Tiny Spuds (or, the USFL Part II)

By Phil Hecken, with Jim Vilk Back again with the Man who never met a uniform he didn’t like, Jim Vilk, with our look at the Eastern Division of the …

So who else needs fixin’?

By Phil Hecken Well, MLB has finally begun the League Championship Series, so as the second season begins to build towards the matchup FOX would kill for a possible Yankees-Dodgers …