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The Kansas State men’s basketball program earlier this week announced it will once again wear its popular lavender throwback uniforms this season — but, this time, it comes with a new twist. Rather than don lavender jerseys with dark purple shorts as they have for the past two seasons, the
Note: The story below appears as it originally did upon the unveiling of the new logo, the team has since announced it will seek a new logo — that update has been appended to the end of this post. Thanks. *** The name’s Louisville City but its best friends call
After the 1997 season, the Triple-A Louisville RedBirds switched affiliates from St. Louis to Milwaukee, and thus needed a new nickname. Playing off their city’s location on the Ohio River and its close relationship with baseball bats, they adopted the nickname RiverBats, which they would keep for four seasons before
Every time it seems that the wave of food-based promotional identities in minor league baseball has played itself out, along comes the perfect team with the perfect promotion to draw me back in. Today it’s the Louisville Bats rebranding as the Derby City Mint Juleps who have restored my faith
Everything you wanted to know about MLB’s Players Weekend uniforms, caps, jerseys, socks, and nicknames all here for you in one convenient package! Yes, Major League Baseball’s Players Weekend is back again for 2018 and just like last season, the league is allowing teams and players to have a little
Major League Baseball and the Players Association are once again allowing players to have a little more fun with what they wear when they take the field for a weekend in August. Players Weekend was introduced last season dressing teams up in colourful uniforms with player names replaced with nicknames
The latest food-based temporary identity comes to us from the Delmarva Shorebirds, who will play a game as the Delmarva Scrapple later this season. Given that the team’s geographic indicator, Delmarva, is a mash-up of three states (Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia) and scrapple is a breakfast specialty with hyper-local appeal,
The Louisville Bats, Triple-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, will play a game as the Louisville Mashers May 26, an homage to the city’s affinity for bourbon. The team will commemorate Cheers to Bourbon Night with specialty uniforms and a bourbon-based logo designed by Brandiose. Per the team, “The name
The Houston Astros will open the 2018 season by wearing gold-trimmed uniforms for their first two home games of the season. Using the usual Astros home jersey template, the special World Champions jersey replaces the blue in the arched “ASTROS” wordmark with gold, the orange which typically trims this wordmark
The year has come to a close and with that comes our announcement of the winners of the 2017 Creamer Awards, our sixth annual recognition of the best in new sports logos over the course of the past twelve months. Before we reveal the results I’d like to take a
In a minor league baseball landscape of increasingly outrageous logos and team names, the St. Louis Cardinals farm system is unusual. Three of the Cardinals’ six affiliates are named directly for their parent club, including Double-A Springfield, High-A Palm Beach, and Rookie League Johnson City. Two of the three Cardinal affiliates with unique names are the
The St Louis Cardinals’ Pacific Coast League Triple-A affiliate unveiled a new set of logos and uniforms at a media event earlier today. Designed by Kentucky’s Studio Simon, headed by Dan Simon. Among their extensive portfolio is the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League, which was the 2015 Creamer Award winner for
