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Click to enlarge Next year marks the Texas Rangers’ 40th anniversary, and the timing couldn’t be better. If they had hit a significant birthday back in, say, 2007, we all would’ve said, “Have they really been around that long? How have they managed to make so little impact on . . . → Read More: And I Hear They’re Thawing Out Teddy Ballgame’s Head for the Occasion, Too You probably heard a few weeks ago that MLB and the players’ union had reached an agreement on a new labor deal. The players have ratified it, but the owners haven’t done so yet (they’re set to vote on it tomorrow and are expected to approve it). Since the deal isn’t officially ratified . . . → Read More: Wanna Change That Number? Not So Fast!
Click to enlarge What’s in a name? Plenty, if it happens to be your name. Or in this case, mine. The gent in question is one Paul Lukas, a Hungarian-born actor who emigrated to America in the 1920s and gained citizenship in 1933. He appeared in a bunch of . . . → Read More: What’s in a Name? . Reader Brady Phelps was watching yesterday’s Chargers/Bills game and noticed something unusual about San Diego safety Eric Weddle (shown above). Do you see it too? As you probably noticed, Weddle is wearing black tape on his fingers. This is unusual on two levels: (1) Historically, players who tape their fingers have . . . → Read More: Monday Morning Uni Watch Click photos to enlarge Paul here, pinch-hitting for Phil, who’s taking a well-deserved breather. As he mentioned at the end of yesterday’s post, the Jazz unveiled a new alternate uniform on Friday. Oddly, they used cheap-ass replicas for the unveiling event. Ditto for the jersey they showed . . . → Read More: Green Giants By Phil Hecken, with Rick Pearson, Larry Bodnovich & Jim Vilk College football has screwed with traditional rivalries, screwed with the Conferences, screwed with the bowls, screwed with the scheduling…screwed with the uniforms…the latter being at least as egregious as all of the former. But the one thing the NCAA still gets right . . . → Read More: Army and Navy…Through The Years  160 comments - (Comments are closed)  College Football  Army Navy, Jim Vilk, larry bodnovich, Rick Pearson Up until a few days ago, if you had asked me what a “head badge” is, I would have guessed something like what you see at right — the badge that police officers often wear on their hats. But that was before reader Stephen Walker taught me that a head badge is that . . . → Read More: In Which I Have One of Those Great ‘Aha!’ Moments
Click photos to enlarge Over the past few days I’ve made repeated mention of the three-part New York Times series on the life and death of NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard. (If you haven’t read it already, start here, and then you can use the links at the top of . . . → Read More: And There Isn’t Even Any Blood on It 112 comments - (Comments are closed) Culinary Corner, Customization/Modification, Jerseys, Minor League Hockey |
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