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The protocol for home and road uniforms on the baseball diamond is simple: The home team wears white and the road team wears gray. Or at least that's how it was until 1963 -- 50 years ago this season. That's when Kansas City Athletics owner Charle...

Hey, you know how we sometimes run contests to have Uni Watch readers reimagine a team's uniforms? Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is running a similar contest of his own. Only the stakes are a bit higher: The winning submission in Cuban's cont...

What makes a good baseball uniform? That question is as old as baseball itself. And the answer -- assuming there really is a definitive answer, which is debatable -- has changed and evolved over the years. At one point, for example, most teams did...

Remember the Houston Astros' "Tequila Sunrise" uniform design, with its odd color-step gradation? That look, or at least a little piece of it, is coming to the football field. That's the news out of the University of Arizona, where the Wildcats ha...

The Vikings look like the Vikings again -- mostly -- and the Dolphins don't look quite as much like the Dolphins as they used to. That's the takeaway from Thursday's two NFL uniform unveilings. The Minnesota and Miami uniforms both had been leaked...

We were expecting one new NFL unveiling on Tuesday. But it turns out that we got three. A Jacksonville TV station that was taking photos of the new Jaguars uniforms at Nike headquarters in advance of Tuesday's Jags unveiling inadvertently posted a...

So as you know, the Minnesota Vikings are set to reveal their new uniforms Thursday evening before the start of the 2013 draft. Our man Paul Lukas, who writes the very popular and thorough Uni-Watch blog, has come through with a confirmed leak of wha...

The Jaguars have just unveiled their new uniforms (additional photos here and here). It usually takes a while before we can fully assess a new uni set, but here are some instant reactions, using Uni Watch's standard "Is it good or is it stupid?" rati...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That was the approach most Uni Watch readers took regarding the Minnesota Vikings' helmet when they sat down to give the team a new look. And who can blame them? Although the real Vikings (the Scandinavian warriors...

The Jackie Robinson biopic "42" is set to open nationwide tomorrow. But Uni Watch readers, ever observant, have already spotted a historical inaccuracy in the film's uniforms. The issue involves the Brooklyn Dodgers' caps. If you're into collectin...

Jackie Robinson is in the air this time of year. Next Monday, April 15, will be the 66th anniversary of Robby's big league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and all MLB uniformed personnel will once again mark the occasion by wearing No. 42. Three day...

You have to hand it to adidas. When the sportswear company came out with the Fruit Stripe uniforms in February, everyone scoffed. But like an NFL offensive coordinator flooding the zone in the hopes of one receiver eventually breaking the cove...

Remember, the Vikings are planning to unveil new uniforms on April 25, but we're planning to beat them to the punch by having Uni Watch readers redesign the Vikings. Here are the rules for this design contest: The rules are as follows: • ...

A couple fun uniform nuggets from Opening Day. As Paul Lukas details, Jackie Bradley Jr. made history by becoming the first player to wear a Jr. on the back of his jersey. Also, with Rockies reliever Adam Ottavino wearing No. 0, the question was r...

Red Sox rookie outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. had a good MLB debut in yesterday's season opener against the Yankees, walking three times, scoring twice, and making a circus catch to rob Robinson Cano of an extra-base hit. But in a less celebrated d...

The Vikings have just announced that they'll unveil a new uniform set on April 25. So let's beat them to the punch -- just as we've done with the Dolphins, Browns and plenty of other teams, let's redesign the Vikes! The rules are as follows: &#...