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Interesting news from the NFL today, as the league has announced that thigh and knee pads will become mandatory in 2013. Thigh and knee pads used to be universal in pro football (hip and tailbone pads, too), but they've fallen out of favor with an...

Two years ago, Josh Berman spent a semester studying abroad in London. While riding the London subway one day, he saw someone wearing a T-shirt that read, "Franklin & Marshall," which he recognized as the name of a small college in eastern Pennsylvan...

Back on May 10, 2005, pitcher Octavio Dotel, who was then with the A's, got the call to warm up in the bullpen. He removed his jacket and found that he was wearing a green jersey, while the rest of the team was wearing gray. (He eventually switched t...

Jimi Collins is a passionate Bills fan. The love of his life, Margot, is a passionate Patriots fan. So when they were planning their recent wedding, they decided to embrace the notion of their mixed NFL marriage. The wedding had a strong NFL theme...

The New Orleans Hornets' days may be numbered, at least if new owner Tom Benson has his way. Benson has said that he wants to give the team a more appropriate New Orleans-themed name (the Hornets, as you may recall, were originally named when they pl...

If Mariano Rivera's knee injury brings an end to his illustrious career, it also will mark the end of something else: the use of 42 as an MLB uniform number. Forty-two was retired on an MLB-wide basis in honor of Jackie Robinson on April 15, 1997,...

Well, you certainly can't say they overdesigned it, right? On some level, it's sort of impressive that something as simple as the new Brooklyn Nets logo could make it through the design process in today's sports world. No flashy colors, no snazzy ...

The New Orleans Hornets' new owner, Tom Benson, wants to rename the team, so Fandom and Uni Watch are currently running a contest to rename and redesign the franchise. The NBA will presumably be doing its own Hornets makeover, but you can probably...

If you felt a shudder rumbling through the uni-verse yesterday, there was a good reason for it: It looks like the NFL is doing away with the Pro Bowl. Ah, the Pro Bowl -- so many memories. The awful uniforms, the half-hearted tackling, the awful u...

The Brooklyn Nets are set to unveil their new logo Monday, but the design has been leaking on several fronts. First a photo supposedly taken in the Nets offices surfaced on Twitter a few days ago. And today the adidas store in Manhattan is selling a ...

Everyone knew the Red Sox and Yankees would be marking the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park on Friday by wearing 1912 throwbacks. What nobody knew, however -- maybe because it was a secret, or maybe just because nobody thought to ask -- was that the ...

As you may have heard, new Hornets owner Tom Benson wants to change the team's name to something more New Orleans-y. Remember, the Hornets were originally based in Charlotte, so the team's name has no Nola connection. The obvious thing would be to...

Pittsburgh Steelers photo If you're gonna throw back, you may as well throw all the way back. That's apparently the thinking in Pittsburgh, where the Steelers have just unveiled their 80th-anniversary throwback uniforms, which are based on the ...

The Steelers are celebrating their 80th anniversary in 2012, and it's been known for some time that they'll mark the occasion with a new throwback uniform, which they'll wear for a couple of games this fall. The throwback design, which will be unveil...

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From body suits to bikinis: Paul Lukas of Uni Watch takes a look at the history of women's sports fashion.