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Month: September 2018

Sunday Morning Uni Watch

By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken The Ohio Bobcats had a neat throwback uniform yesterday against U-Mass, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 MAC championship team. The funny …

Painting Baseball, One Ballpark At A Time

By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken If the style of art above looks familiar to you, it should. It’s done by artist Andy Brown, whom I’ve featured on here a few …

Hurricanes to Wear Whalers Throwbacks, and the NHL Season Preview

Big news yesterday out of Carolina, as the Hurricanes announced that they’ll be wearing Hartford Whalers throwbacks this season for the first time (but only for two games). I wrote …

My Very Own Mail Chute

As most of you know, I sold off a ton of stuff when I moved last month. One thing I said at the time was, “A nice thing about getting …

Solved: The Mystery of BYU’s Red Dot

[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from longtime reader and fellow journalist Cork Gaines, who found, and then solved, a good college football helmet mystery. — PL] By …

NBA Media Day Yields Big Haul of Uni News

Yesterday was NBA Media Day, and there was a decent amount of uni-related news, most notably a leaked photo of newly acquired Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard wearing what appears to …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

With the Panthers hosting the Bengals yesterday, both teams wore “One Carolina” helmet decals to support the Hurricane Florence relief efforts and show solidarity with the victims. (ECU wore this …

Sunday Morning Uni Watch

By Phil Hecken and the SMUW crew Follow @PhilHecken Wait. You’re running a splash photo of Oregon again? What gives? Well, aside from yesterday’s match up with Stanford being an …

Another Oakland A’s Stadium Design

Follow @PhilHecken If you read Uni Watch during Paul’s August sabbatical (and I know you did), I was fortunate to feature my friend Mark Anderson’s concepts for a proposed Oakland …

The Story Behind Inter Miami’s Crest

Click to enlarge I rarely write about soccer, because I know so little about the sport. But I have a really fun new soccer-centric piece up on ESPN — it’s …

How to Photoshop a Player Into a New Uniform

We’ve come a long way from the days when Topps would clumsily airbrush a new uniform onto an old photo of a player who’d joined a new team. Nowadays, a …

Underappreciated Uni Element Featured for First Time on Cap

The egg timer at the New Era offices — the one that rings every few weeks to remind them it’s time to feed the retail beast by cranking out another …

Book: Garish A’s Uniform Led to All-Star Snub

I’ve written a lot this year about the 1963 Kansas City A’s — the team that introduced the franchise’s now-familiar green/gold color scheme. (To see the posts I’m referring to, …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

Click to enlarge The Lions wore white over silver-ish for yesterday’s game against the 49ers. It’s the first time they’ve worn that uni combo since establishing their current uni set …

Sunday Morning Uni Watch

By Phil Hecken and the SMUW Crew Follow @PhilHecken What’s new is old again — the Ducks breaking out another new uniform in non school colors — and since they …