There's just something about sports uniforms that makes men who still blithely don the flannel shirts they were wearing when they heard Kurt Cobain died feel the need to weigh in on color combinations, trim, piping, texture, and accessories. I am one of these men. This is my prized possession. I bought it in 1995 for $10.
Therefore, when three different publicists sent me three different e-mails announcing The San Francisco-based Womens' Professional Soccer league's grand uniform-unveiling fas
Photo | Courtesey of Puma, the WPS, and Stuart Ramson. Used with permission. A recent announcement from the Bay Area's FC Gold Pride does not inspire confidence
Don't get us wrong: We love soccer of all sorts. The final match of the 2006 World Cup haunts us to this day. We'd love to see flourishing men's and women's pro leagues and strong U.S. national teams. But we're also realists. So when the Women's Professional Soccer league's Bay Area team, FC Gold Pride, announced last week it was sla
Joe EskenaziUFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue smiles while California Redwoods owner Paul Pelosi shows off what is either a large Jolly Rancher candy or his team's road uniformA superstitious person would have picked up bad, teal and lime green vibes at the just-concluded AT&T Park press conference announcing the name of San Francisco's team in the nascent United Football League. First, as he stepped up to the podium, league commissioner Michael Huyghue inadvertently knocked one of the dec
American fans haven't always been thrilled to see advertisements on player uniformsThe announcement that the nascent, San Francisco-based United Football League has inked a deal with StubHub as its first sponsor was interesting on two levels. First, StubHub is a Web site that allows fans -- or veiled scalpers -- to resell tickets. If the league feels that a demand exists for UFL tickets that will compel fans to take to the Web and pay above face value ... well, good for them. More interesting