My annual college football season-preview column is now available on ESPN. Ordinarily that would mean a short main entry here, but today we have big news that can’t wait. It’s …
Month: August 2011
An Earthquake, a Hurricane, and Now This
So Phil and I are at yesterday’s Mets/Fish doubleheader at Shea, and we decide to take a stroll around the ballpark after the first game ends. In the midst of …
The Earflap Chronicles, Continued
Hurricane, shmurricane. I don’t mean to make light of a storm that killed 21 people and has left millions without power. But in my part of Brooklyn, thankfully, it was …
Black and White and (kinda) Red All Over…
By Phil Hecken There is no surer sign of spring than the first robin … or so the saying goes. So there must be no surer sign of the impending …
Here’s Looking at You
By Phil Hecken Howdy, boys and girls — I’m baaaaaack. Who’s that in the splash photo? None other than Caitlin Lukas and her owner, Paul — more on that in …
South by Northwest(ern)
For the past year or so I’ve been toying with the idea of getting green/gold striping tattooed onto my calves, to mimic the look of tube sox. But reader Adam …
Gary’s Players
Back in May, I Ticker-linked to the new uniforms being worn by the Gary South Shore RailCats. “Unusual, but it totally works,” I wrote. Many people in the comments section …
With a Rubber Hose
Mildly surreal sight last night at the Big A, as Ervin Santana, apparently suffering from a nosebleed, took the mound for the top of the 4th against the Chisox with …
Sorry, I Wasn’t Paying Attention, Did You Say Something?
You know what’s really great about college football uni design these days? . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exactly. Design considerations aside — …
Now He Just Needs to Add a Lightning Jersey
I don’t know much about Rays skipper Joe Maddon except what I see, but what I see usually looks pretty good. From a Uni Watch standpoint, he has the glasses, …
Red Menace
In case you were busy leading a well-adjusted life yesterday, Georgia unveiled its Amateur Pacifist costume, which will be worn in the Chicken Sandwich Game, or Christian Sandwich Game, or …
Sweetness Looking Not-So-Sweet
Paul here, doing an utterly inadequate job of filling in for Phil this weekend. Yesterday I Ticker-linked to a shot of a Pitt player wearing cut-off pants with thigh pads. …
Would Any of These Guys Wear a Nats Cap?
As some of you may be aware, on Monday afternoon the Nats announced that tahey’d be wearing Navy SEALs caps for Tuesday’s game against the Reds, in honor of the …
And They Cut Off the Breathing Ethier Collar
Andre Ethier is big. How big? Six hundred and two big, that’s how big. Geoff Poole snapped that shot at last night’s Dodgers/Brewers game in Milwaukee, where they’ve apparently come …
Ditching the Black, One Little Bit at a Time
When the Mets wore their blue Los Mets jerseys a few weeks ago, literally dozens of readers asked me if it might have been a test-drive for a blue alternate …