The Story Behind the Louisville Bats: For the Purple, By the Purple
I have always liked the Louisville Bats logo and team name, but three things that I learned about it recently make me like it even more: 1. There’s a specific and awesome reason that the team color is purple (see below for that), 2. The logo was designed by the
College Football Uniform Roundup: 11/1/14 Weekend
Congratulations, you’ve made it to the weekend! Your reward for making it through 5 long days of work is 2 days of doing whatever in the world you want to do with whoever you want to do it with. If one of those things happens to be watching college football
KC Royals 2014 World Series Phantom Champs Merchandise
What a finish to a fantastic baseball season, with a runner on third in a one-run game, bottom of the ninth during the seventh game of the World Series. You can’t beat that, and kudos to the San Francisco Giants on claiming their third title in the past five seasons.
Texas A&M Will Wear 1939 Throwbacks, Including Amazing Helmets
Normally we like to wait until Friday to cover college football uniforms, but we figured that this was so special that it deserved its own post. That’s what Texas A&M achieved with their throwback uniform set, which included one of the best and most unique throwback helmet designs seen in
2018 World Cup Logo Is Officially Unveiled
Hot on the heels of an extremely exciting 2014 World Cup, the time has come for FIFA to reveal the official logo for the 2018 edition, which will be held across the vast expanse of Russia. If the actual event is as spectacular as the logo unveiling was, then we’re
Men of Teal: The Story Behind the San Jose Sharks
More than one-third of all recorded great white shark attacks in the United States have occurred in an area of the Pacific Ocean called the Red Triangle, which lies along roughly 200 miles of the California coast from just north of San Francisco to just south of Monterey. Smack dab
College Football Uniform Roundup: 10/25/14 Weekend
It’s Friday, so other than being the best day of the week for anybody still in school or with a regular 9-to-5 job, it’s also the day where we try out best to round up the most important uniform news in this past week, so that there won’t be too
LA Kings 2014 Win Engraved on Stanley Cup
Earlier today the Los Angeles Kings had their 2014 Stanley Cup victory added to the lower ring of the Stanley Cup. The photo showing the new engraving was tweeted out by their official Twitter account a few hours ago. There are 52 names included on the 2014 LA Kings spot
Tennessee Smokies Reveal New Cubs-Inspired Logo Set
After giving us a shadowy sneak peek last week (which resulted in Chris giving it an extremely crude guess), the Tennessee Smokies of the AA Southern League have finally unveiled their new logo set, and it’s definitely easy on the eyes. After 7 years of being affiliated with the Cubs,
Random Observations on the 2014 World Series Branding
A few random observations and opinions of mine about last night’s World Series opener in Kansas City, from a uniform and logo point-of-view, of course. By far, the 2014 jersey and cap patch designs are the least interesting in the history of this patch. A simple wordmark, and nothing more, adorned
NHL15 New Uniforms Available Today
EA Sports has officially released all the new third jerseys previously unavailable for the PS4 and XBox One versions of their NHL15 video game. To avoid having new uniforms leaked early by the game (which used to happen, like, constantly) games now are manufactured and shipped to customers without any
Waterfalls, a Crown, and Sasquatch: The Story Behind the Northwest Arkansas Naturals
The hottest team in baseball is the Kansas City Royals, and their surge to the World Series has been sparked by players who came up through their minor league system. Players like Mike Moustakas, Salvador Perez, and American League Championship Series MVP Lorenzo Cain are among 13 out of 25 players