Adidas Adds a Signature Lionel Messi Line
Adidas is keeping pace in the race to promote its gear-wearing stars with individual lines. The latest move? Announcing today a new clothing line and personalized adizero F50 for soccer sensation Lionel Messi. Messi becomes only the third adidas star with his own signature line, joining David Beckham and Derrick
The 16 New Uniforms for Chinese Soccer
Nike today released the new uniform designs for all 16 teams in the China Football Super League, with looks that include gradient shading, horizontal stripes, vertical stripes, split-look fronts and plenty of bright colors. Of note, the Guangzhou Evergrande F.C. offers a red that darkens as it nears the shirt’s
NCAA Proposes Uniforms-Cant-Match-Turf Rule; Not Just Boise Effected
The NCAA Football Rules Committee met this week and had ten proposals for new rules for football under their watch. The most interesting of the set is a uniform matter that has been termed by some as “The Boise State rule.” See, Boise State has their infamous blue field, and
The Logocast #24 “Stupid, but neat – and how the Oregon Ducks are ready for a Russian invasion.”
FOLLOW THE LOGOCAST ON TWITTER. FOLLOW THE LOGOCAST ON TUMBLR. LIKE THE LOGOCAST ON FACEBOOK. E-MAIL THE PODCAST. [audio http://audio.chirbit.com/thelogocast_1361221805.mp3] In this episode of the Logocast, we talk about the BP hats hitting Spring Training fields, the Jaguars logo change, Oregon spring helmets, the updated Vikings Norseman logo, the Warriors new
A Preview of Ads on NBA Jerseys?
In case everyone forgot, back in July the NBA temporarily approved the use of small advertisement patches (they later decided to hold off on this plan and take another look at it in the future) on in-game team jerseys starting with the 2013-14 season. As JR wrote for us back when
Inspector Logo Presents: A Look at Equipment in Logos
Here at the Worldwide Sports Logos Headquarters, we have many leather-bound books full of league logos and our conference room smells of rich mahogany. Sometimes, in between heated discussions over the merits of new logos, or how far into the depth of sport we are willing to go, tracking new alt uniforms, we
More Sleeved Basketball Uniforms Coming from adidas
Adidas has really taken to this whole sleeve concept in basketball. On the heels of revealing the new Golden State Warriors’ sleeved concept, adidas announced this week that the April 3 McDonald’s All American basketball game in Chicago will feature two teams donning sleeves. The new “adizero short sleeve uniform”
Minnesota Vikings Spit-Shine Their Logo Into 2013 Shape
The Minnesota Vikings, in the first stages of a franchise refurbish that includes a new stadium and possibly new uniforms, announced to season-ticket-holders this morning that the team has a new, cleaned-up logo. With thicker, cleaner lines, the logo will begin to appear immediately on their web site, in March
Adidas Unveils New Running Design Amidst Fanfare
Jamaican track sensation Yohan Blake brought the star power. Adidas brought the leading product. In Manhattan on Feb. 13, Adidas unveiled Boost, a completely new running shoe created around an energy-transferring foam, a commercial first. While we could get in-depth on the technical aspects of the new shoe, certainly the
Pittsburgh Pirates to Have New Logo in 2014
It’s Spring Training! Which means once again Pirates fans are already starting to look ahead to next season, but this time it’ll be because of a new logo. The Pittsburgh Pirates announced on Monday night that they will be ditching the red bandana wearing pirate design they’ve been using as
Braves Prove Cowards; Claim BP Cap Was Never Official
The Atlanta Braves have cowered in the corner, yielding to a tiny minority of voices and have made a last-minute change to their BP cap design. But they don’t even have the nerve to issue a press release saying that they chickened out and didn’t want to step on anyone’s toes. They
Nike Designer Discusses Remaking Famed Alien Logo Raygun
There’s life in outer space. Or, at least in Nike’s fictional Area 72. As Nike shoe designers had fun creating an extraterrestrial world to base a trio of signatures shoes for Kobe, Lebron and KD on ahead of the Feb. 15-17 NBA All-Star weekend, they also had a good time