This week’s Leo’s World special looks at the colorful kits of cricket, and a few miscellaneous other sports.
Category: Cricket
Goodbye Rockies CC, And Hello To Finals Day
Good morning, everyone. For the first time ever, I can say I’m glad to see the back of the Colorado Rockies’ City Connect uniforms. The proverbial back of them…not the …
Don’t Blink…Major League Cricket Is Back Again!
Good Saturday morning! I hope those of you in the U.S. are enjoying a long, peaceful holiday weekend. And hopefully your neighborhood is quieter than mine was last night. Enough …
Giants And Mets Add More Memorial Patches
__________ Happy Sunday, everyone! Two nights ago the San Francisco Giants, already mourning the loss of the legendary Willie Mays, found out that another Giants great passed away. The ball …
Grade The Nations: T-20 World Cup Logos, Part Two
Jim Vilk and R. Scott Rogers are grading all the Cricket World Cup team logos. Here’s Part II
Grade The Nations: T-20 World Cup Logos, Part One
[Editor’s Note: Longtime reader and contributor R. Scott Rogers joins new Weekend Editor Jim Vilk this morning as they take a VERY deep dive into the logos for the countries …
Leo’s World Returns With a Test Cricket Quiz
On this special day, take Leo’s special Test Cricket Quiz! No cricket knowledge necessary…
Your 2024 Indian Premier League Uniform Preview
A full uniform rundown for the most popular cricket competition in the world, the IPL
Take Me Out To The… Cricket Match?
Major League Cricket (MLC) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in the United States. It began play on July 13, 2023, with six teams representing major U.S. cities.
Tampa Bay Breaks Out the Devil Throwbacks
In a Saturday afternoon game against the (also) first place White Sox, Tampa Bay slipped into the old “Devil Rays” unis from, err, way way back in the late 90s. …
English Soccer Team Joins Cross-Sport Numbering System
[Deputy Editor’s Note: With Paul now on his August blog-cation a couple days early, today we have a lede from our own Jamie Rathjen, who takes a look at cross-sport …
It’s T20 Time
Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken, with Jimmer Vilk Quick story: I spent a semester (“J-Term” actually) in England during January of 1987; being Americans, we were used to “our” …
What Is the Proper Response to a Disaster?
Life is always full of tragedy. But there are some tragedies that transcend the ordinary and become part of our larger collective consciousness. Sports uniforms, oddly enough, are a good …
Your Guile, My Guile, Our Guile
[Editor’s Note: Although intern emeritus Vince Grzegorek has moved on to greener pastures, he’s still going to contribute occasional entries — like today’s, for example.] By Vince Grzegorek A few …
And Look, There’s a Young Marge Schott in the Front Row
A couple of Sunday nights ago at about 10 p.m., someone posted a comment that read, “Women’s Nazi Hockey Team.” It linked to the photo shown at right (here’s a …