Today in the Ticker: The first stage of the first Tour de France Femmes, the Red Sox choose their 2023 uni advertiser, it’s still soccer shirt season, and more.
The article about double knit uniforms and astroturf incorrectly states the Red Sox wore flannel uniforms through the 1973 season. Yaz debuted the team’s double knits at the 1972 all-star game.
Re: Hagan Sports and field hockey.
That company, I believe, is owned/operated by Shannon Taylor (whose twitter handle is Be11eve), a former member of the U.S. national team who once scored the game-winning goal against Argentina in the London Olympics.
Appreciate all the cycling coverage in the ticker today! Another uni-centric detail from the last few days of the mens tour: Simon Geschke wore the polka dot jersey into Paris, but had actually relinquished it to overall leader (and yellow jersey wearer) Jonas Vingegaard a few days earlier. Since a rider can’t wear two jerseys, the second place rider in that category continues to wear it during the race. Geskche seemed particularly heartbroken about losing the jersey and expressed a preference for wearing his standard team kit over wearing the king of the mountains jersey on behalf of another rider. Tradition won out, and Geschke seemed to be reluctantly participating in all the leaders photo ops during the final stage.
It might be tradition, but what it really drives the rule is that the jerseys are sponsored, and if no one wears the polka dot jersey, that jersey’s sponsor misses out. Lame reason, I know.
I’ve always felt this is silly. I know the Tour wants all the jerseys out there, but how eyerolling to have to wear a leader’s jersey when you aren’t a leader in that category, maybe it provides motivation to win it back, but come on.
I’ve always thought that the actual leader of the category should get to decide how to display it. For example, wear the yellow jersey and a polka-dot/green/white helmet. My god could you imagine the clash if there was a man in all four?! Yellow jersey, green helmet, polka-dot bibs, and a white bike?! The Tour would never allow it, but it’d be hilarious and ridiculous.
I agree, and I think it was especially unfortunate this year: Geschke was so close to winning it, and likely would have if not for the GC battle. I felt bad for him, both for coming up a little short, and for having to continue to wear the jersey he didn’t win.
On the Canucks reverse retro: “You can also see that the jerseys will apparently have the throwback orange and black NHL shield logo.”
That’s a new logo. On the original (pre-lockout) logo the lettering went top-left to bottom-right. I don’t think they’ve ever used an orange and black logo where the lettering went “up” instead of “down”.
NHL logo on jersey kind of plays in with Reverse Retro theme. A little bit of the old mixed with the new.
Yep. Assuming this is authentic (and not a aliexpress knockoff) that seems most likely. I just wanted to clarify that that is NOT the pre-lockout logo.
One thing I’ve debated mentally about NIL is if it will exacerbate the problem of women in sports being promoted more for how they look than how they play.
On the one hand, anything that brings more attention and revenue to women’s sports could be sold as a good thing. On the other, it does seem like the biggest, most Googled “stars” of women’s sports are more often the ones with model-like looks more so than the best results.
Sometimes there’s overlap — Jan Stephenson, perhaps the original crossover female athlete, won three LPGA majors, but was better known for wearing a tie-top on the cover of Sport in 1977, and Maria Sharapova won five majors. But the number of famous female athletes who aren’t exactly world-beaters seems to have grown quite a bit in the Internet age: Anna Kournikova, Natalie Gulbis, Allison Stokke, Paige Spiranac, and so on.
I just fear it belittles the actual competition of women’s sports. It’s gotta be frustrating to be a female athlete who wins a lot, but gets maybe a third of the marketing dollars as someone they routinely beat but has a prettier face.
I do fear social media generally has made us more vain. Don’t know if we can go back on that, though.
I’m surprised nobody threw at Robles yesterday after the clown nose. But then you don’t normally throw at a .236 hitter.
From a WaPo article…Manager Dave Martinez didn’t like what he did:
“I didn’t see it,” Martinez said. “I heard about it. I will talk to him. … That’s not who we are, right? It happened; it’s done. I don’t want to see that kind of stuff.”
Anybody who saw Robles’ actions after he his the homer knows Bumgarner’s reaction was way out of line. Bumgarner’s the biggest crybaby in baseball, constantly being insulted by insults not there. Martinez should be supporting his player instead of trying to be a has been like Tony La Russa. I thought Robles’ red nose was a great response to Maddy the Clown.
Not even a Canucks fan but I would absolutely wear that jersey! They’ve always had some of my favorite looks with very few clunkers. This is a good one.
With apologies to Guy Mitchell…
Well, I never felt more like suing the Blues, ‘Cause I really thought, this stuff was game-used, But it’s not, why’d you do me this way? Well, I never felt more like cryin’ all night, The tags are all wrong, the markings ain’t right, Mislabeled, that’s why I’m suing the Blues!
An overlooked RR idea for the Islanders would be to render their classic uniform in their 1995 colors.
Are you trying to kill me Walter?
My only suggestion to the new format is for each story posted no only has the date but also the time it was published.
I love Jared Buccola’s Premier Lacrosse League roundup! Here’s hoping you keep it up, Jared!
That Vancouver uni should be their new one, not an alt/reverse retro/whatever. Beach the whale!
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