LATEST STORIES FROM UNI WATCH
And I Hear It’s Being Nominated for an Obie
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As most of you probably know by now, Nike unveiled new basketball uniforms yesterday for Arizona, Baylor (women’s), Connecticut (men’s and women’s), Duke, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Syracuse, all of which we’ll get to in a sec.
What you might not know is that the presentation of the uniforms was preceded by a multi-media performance thingie...
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18 days ago
Discuss
Seeing Stars
This Sunday is a good chance to regrout the bathroom all-star day, beginning with the NHL All-Star Game at 4pm Eastern. Nothing new uni-wise, as they’ll be wearing the exact same uniforms as last year. In the past, the NHL has used the ASG as a laboratory for experimenting with new officiating uniforms, but not this year.
Then, at 6:30pm Eastern, it’s the Pro Bowl. Not...
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19 days ago
Uni Watch DIY Project: Cave Painting
[Today we have an excellent DIY project by Ryan Connelly. Enjoy! — PL]
By Ryan Connelly
I had a fun project to work on over the holidays, as a friend commissioned me to paint a Penguins wall logo for him. Here’s how I did it.
First, I traced/drew the Penguins logo in AutoCAD. I scaled the logo up to four feet tall. Then I set a grid over the logo, with each rectangle measuring...
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20 days ago
Angry Homeless Man: Big ‘Peebo’ Bryson Fan?
Hey, if you’re gonna look like a slob, you may as well have a slob-ish logo on your sleeve while you’re at it. Readers Geoff Hansen and G. Girard both noticed that glitch during yesterday’s AFC title game. As longtime readers may recall, this isn’t the first time Bill Bellichick has had a typo on his sweatshirt.
Only two other uni-notable notes from yesterday...
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21 days ago
Are You Ready For Some Football?
By Phil Hecken, with Brinke Guthrie
Today, as we sit back and enjoy one of the greatest sports days (the NFL Conference Championship Games), it’s a John Facenda kind of day. Four teams left — two of whom will go on to the ultimate game — the Super Bowl. And while there have been some truly super Super Bowls, the best day for football is today — no not too...
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22 days ago
Hockey TimE
By Phil Hecken, with Tim E. O’Brien
Back again with our NHL tweaker/concepter-extraodinaire, Tim E. O’Brien, who has some grandiose NHL concepts that we’ve already seen, and has a few more in the bag. Previously, he basically created a ‘pro combat’ template for hockey, did up some nifty concepts for a good number of NHL teams, and resurrected some ...
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23 days ago
In Which the NFL Falls Down a Wormhole
Wanna see something odd? Go to Majestic’s home page and check out the second item in the carousel. Majestic is selling NFL gear! What’s that about? In addition, the shirts they’re selling apparently don’t carry the Majestic logo.
Brinke spotted that yesterday afternoon. It’s even more interesting in light of something reader Chaz Noerenberg had pointed...
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24 days ago
Because What This World Really Needs Is More Advertising
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Brinke Guthrie was looking at Australian Open photos yesterday when he came upon this shot of Casey Dellacqua. “Hmmm,” he thought, “Instant Sponsor? What the hell is that?”
Instant Sponsor, it turns out, is pretty much what it sounds like: a company that lets advertisers bid for space on athletes’ attire for very short time periods. In other words...
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25 days ago
Putting the Buckle on the Rust Belt
During my recent trip to Cleveland, I stopped in to see my friend Steven Tatar, the man behind the very wonderful Ohio Knitting Mills brand. He always has lots of new projects and schemes percolating, and this time around he was eager to show me a big cache of vintage 1970s belt buckles he’d recently procured. “A lot of them are sports-themed,” he said, “Look...
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26 days ago
‘It was a pleasure to meet me’: C-Town Party Report
At longtime readers may recall, three years ago I attended the “Super Flush” event, in which a select group of Mets fans got to test the toilets for the team’s new stadium. Each of us was given a Super Flush T-shirt, but the tees were all XL, so I put mine up for sale on eBay, where it sold for, I believe, $49.
Last Tuesday night I had an odd reunion of sorts with...
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27 days ago
Old Time Hockey
By Phil Hecken
NOTE: The site seems to be working O.K. now but there may still be some small glitches. If something looks amiss, hit refresh — PH
In yesterday’s comments section, long-time reader Jet, who we will hear from shortly, posted an amazing video along with this comment:
WOW! A 1947 film on hockey in Montreal, shows kid hockey all the way up to the pros!
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29 days ago
Sorry for the Glitch
As many of you have already discovered, we had some infrastructure problems here on the site, beginning late last night and extending through this morning. The issues have been resolved, and we’re back in business. Phil will have his usual Sunday content shortly (figure by 2pm Eastern at the latest, and probably sooner than that), and everything should be back to normal after...
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29 days ago
When the NHL was Fab
By Phil Hecken, with Tim E. O’Brien
A few weeks back, I ran a nice set of NHL uniform concepts from one of our more talented graphic artists, Tim E. O’Brien. That was just a small portion of the NHL makeover Tim has planned, and we’ll be taking a look at the rest of the NHL concepts a little on down the road. But before we do that, one of the things Tim had discussed...
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January 14, 2012
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 38
Big thanks to everyone who came out to the Uni Watch party in Cleveland two nights ago — I had a blast. Hope you did too.
Now then: I have a big backlog of excellent wire service photos, so let’s take care of some of them today. Contributors for this batch include Mark Kluczynski, Mike Hersh, Jerry Wolper (which explains the high number of Pirates-related photos), Bill...
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January 13, 2012
If I Can Make It There…It’s My Kinda Town
By Phil Hecken, featuring Mark Peterson
Longtime reader and poster Mark Peterson, whom I first profiled way back in April of 2011 (and who has long been contributing fantastic uniform concepts) is back today with some new uniform concepts for my New York Mets and his Chicago White Sox. Mark is not just a talented graphic artist (and has thousands and thousands of graphics and logos...
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January 12, 2012
Just Ducky — Bowl Roundup, Part Deux
By Phil Hecken, with Terry Duroncelet
While I was away for the past few days, in New Hampshire, chasing a story for my Independent Study project for this semester (hint: it deals with GOP candidates), I didn’t get to watch any TV, including all but about 5 minutes of the BCS Championship Game Monday night. I missed UW and you guys. Fortunately, the man who has, without fail...
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January 11, 2012
21 the Hard Way
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Last night’s BCS title game offered more uni-notable details — several of them visible in the photo shown above — than all four of the weekend’s NFL playoff games combined. Here’s a rundown:
• If you look at that photo, you can see that LSU defenders Ryan Baker (No. 22) and Barkevious Mingo (49) both play bare-handed, with tape on...
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January 10, 2012
You Must’ve Been a Beautiful Baby (or at least a cute kid): Childhood Uni Photos, Vol. 2
Last month I ran some photos of a very young Mike Hersh wearing assorted Philadelphia uniforms and invited readers to submit their own embarrassing endearing childhood uni pics. A nice assortment of you accepted that invitation, so let’s take a look, beginning with this shot of Mike Colvin (which, like most of the photos in today’s entry, you can click to access a larger...
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January 09, 2012
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
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As you can see above, Elton Brand of the Sixers was getting his grunge on last night. Those very nice screen shots (you can even see the loose threads!) show the results of a rather flagrant foul by Amir Johnson of the Raptors. I’m wondering if Adidas’s Revolution 30 mesh pattern had anything to do with this — like, did the mesh holes act...
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January 08, 2012
In the Proud Tradition of Murrow, Cronkite, Rather, Etc.
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On the left is Nike designer Todd Van Horne; on the right, CBS News correspondent Mo Rocca. That’s a screen shot from a uni-centric segment that will be running tomorrow on CBS Sunday Morning. Rocca interviewed me for this piece a few weeks ago, and I’m told he also spoke with Maryland head coach Randy Edsall and with Barney’s Creative Director Simon Doonan (ugh...
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January 07, 2012
It Was Only a Matter of Time
You knew it was bound to happen eventually: Reality teevee has finally discovered the uni-verse. What you see above is a clip from the new Discovery Channel series All-Star Dealers, which debuts later this month and features our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions. Sort of like Pawn Stars for sports geeks. If you want to know more, here’s a press release and an additional preview...
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January 06, 2012
And Look, There’s Vai Sikahema Punching the Goalpost
Even if you don’t love the Eagles — as a Giants fan, I’m not exactly enamored of them myself — you’d have to have a heart of concrete not to be moved by this excellent time-lapse video, which shows a family creating their own DIY football field, complete with an Iggles logo in the end zone. Enjoy (and give a tip of the cap to Jim Vilk, who pointed me...
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January 05, 2012
‘I see,’ said the blind man — wait, didn’t I use that headline two weeks ago?
I took a quick glance at the Insurance Bowl last night, just as a penalty was being called. As the ref announced the particulars of the foul, I noticed something odd: He was wearing eyeglasses.
I wasn’t able to get a screen shot (sorry, still no DVR here at Uni Watch HQ), but some quick Googling revealed that the game was being officiated by a Pac-12 crew, with the white hat...
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January 04, 2012
Happy 2012 and All That
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As you can see above, one of the chief pleasures of New Year’s Day Weekend is the rare sight of eye black during an NHL game. But the Winter Classic was just one of the many, many uni-relevant events over the past few days. Let’s take a look, one major category at a time…
NFL
• Isaac Redman of the Steelers had some nameplate problems on Sunday.
• Did Larry...
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January 03, 2012
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
By Phil Hecken
Well, the big day is FINALLY here. The Granddaddy. Is. Today. Oregon versus Wisconsin.
Today is the Rose Bowl, the ONLY bowl that, while corporately sponsored, still maintains some semblance of past glory. So traditional that you can look back on a game from decades ago and still recognize both teams. We will look back on this game decades from now and instantly...
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January 02, 2012
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