We Really Need to Find Out Who the Cartoonist Was

Last Friday I linked to this super-groovy Penguins patch. A few readers sent me links to a few other teams’ patches from the same series, but reader Gordon Fall went above and beyond, determining that the patches were produced for the 1972-73 season and tracking down almost the entire sixteen-team set. I was . . . → Read More: We Really Need to Find Out Who the Cartoonist Was

The Bluegarss State

The great thing about being the best player on a top-ranked team is that Nike is always making a fuss over you, coming up with new designs for your team, and so on. Sometimes they’ll ask you to be part of a photo shoot for a new uni design. And sometimes they’ll even . . . → Read More: The Bluegarss State

Putting Fannies in the Seats by Putting Jerseys on the Seatbacks

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And They Lost Again Anyway

As if the Longhorns didn’t have enough problems on the court lately, last night they became the latest college hoops team to wear one Nike’s sublimated rear-jersey designs. If you can’t quite see the details of the design there, that’s okay — Nike helpfully did a media blitz earlier in the day, so . . . → Read More: And They Lost Again Anyway

There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol.4

That was a pretty uni-uneventful Stupor Bowl (unless you count Pete Townshend’s pale white underbelly repeatedly peeking through his shirt, which I definitely could have done without), so let’s bid adieu to the NFL season and turn our attention to another round of wire service photos. Our last batch featured images of historical . . . → Read More: There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol.4

When The Saints (& Colts) Go Marching In

By Phil Hecken, with Rick Pearson and Tim Brulia (with photo assistance from Larry Bodnovich)

The Big Game is today, or the Super Bowl, as most of us call it. Which means, it’s time to take a look back at the uniforms of the two combatants in today’s contest: the Indianapolis (nee Baltimore) . . . → Read More: When The Saints (& Colts) Go Marching In

Fields (& Logos) of Dreams

By Phil Hecken, with Jim Vilk and Michael Malinowski

With Super Bowl Sunday only mere hours away, we’ll kick off Super Bowl weekend with a look back at the fields and logos of the past games. Today, I’m joined by Jim “I’d wear that” Vilk, and Michael Malinowski, better known by his nom-de-post . . . → Read More: Fields (& Logos) of Dreams

Putting the Y in DIY

Got a note the other day from Terence Kearns, who wanted to tell me about his latest DIY project. Along the way, he raised an interesting question. Take a look:

Here’s another one of my hybrid DIY varsity jackets — a 1930s-inspired Chicago Blackhawks jacket. Just like my last one, I found all . . . → Read More: Putting the Y in DIY