The Florida Fire Frogs have ambition. First, they’re one of only a handful of minor league baseball teams named for an entire state. A few others spring to mind, like the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, Arkansas Travelers, and Connecticut Tigers—and hey, the Carolina Mud Cats are named for two states—but
Month: July 2017
2018 Atlantic League ASG logo is (Long Island) ducky
The Long Island Ducks will host the Atlantic League All Star Game for the third time in 2018. The Ducks, who hold basically all of the league’s attendance records, including leading the league in attendance in 14 of their 17 seasons, hosted the 2002 and 2010 All Star Games as
Nashville Predators Unveil 20th Season Logo
The Nashville Predators are celebrating their 20th season in 2017-18 and they’ll do so with a special commemorative logo. With two versions, one for use on yellow and the other white, the logo features the number 20 in blue with the year of the club’s first game (1998) on the
NBA Appears Set to Change its 2018 All-Star Logo
UPDATE: I recently received the correctly colored version of the roundel alternate logo and have added it below. With the beginning of the 2017 NBA Summer League last week, the NBA rolled out its new league logo style. This activity also resulted in the trademarking of some new versions of the
Buy Legit or Look Like . . . Well, This
We see the ads everywhere, jerseys now 90% off! What a bargain! Typos in the ad be damned, I can’t pass up that deal. Yeah, well, when the jersey arrives it don’t look like what the team wears. A friend of a Reddit user (Friskydonut) found out the hard way
Gwinnett Braves announce finalists in name-the-team contest
The Triple-A Gwinnett Braves, who will rebrand for the 2018 season, announced the six finalists in their name-the-team this morning. The names listed below and the rationale behind them come from the G-Braves website, where the vote is taking place as you read. I have broken them down into four
RB Leipzig and RB Salzburg have been outfitted in same exact kit
Red Bull’s venture into soccer is starting to pay dividends. The energy drink company’s Major League Soccer outfit has been a mainstay in the playoffs since the takeover, their Brazilian outfit has been steadily climbing the ranks of Brazil’s soccer pyramid, and now Red Bull will have two teams participating
Juventus goes craft green with 2017-18 third kit
Earlier in the European soccer offseason, we got a look at what Juventus’ 2017-18 home shirt would look like. Even though they’ve done something a bit weird with their new crest, there was no surprise at the fact that Juventus would stick to a simple design of black-and-white stripes for
ECHL Unveils Logo for 30th Anniversary
The ECHL will be celebrating their 30th anniversary in style next season with this new commemorative logo. The logo was unveiled via a post on their official site early last week. Designed by Dan Royer, Creative Director for the ECHL’s Toledo Walleyes as well as Minor League Baseball’s Toledo Mud
In the Hunt: The Story Behind the Down East Wood Ducks
The story behind the brand-new Down East Wood Ducks, a brand-new Single-A team in the Carolina League, needs to be addressed in two parts: 1. Where exactly is Down East? and 2. What is a Wood Duck? First, as a geographic signifier for a sports team, “Down East” is probably as
Detroit MLS expansion team could be named Detroit City SC
While most fans of the current soccer team in Detroit want no part of Major League Soccer coming to town, there still appears to be a decent-sized push for MLS to plant its flag in the Motor City. That push is getting closer and closer to reality after the ownership
NBA Makes Change to League Logo
I really hope Jerry West just read the headline and moved on, never to look back, he’d be happy. But sorry Jerry, this is the dawning of the age of, well, just slightly tweaking your logo. Following on the heels of big (and I mean BIG) changes in the league