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    Charlotte FC's MLS NEXT Pro team will be called Crown Legacy FC:
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    Brooklyn Nets 10th Anniversary logo: Nice use of the herringbone.
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    Was wondering which Portland team would use the PDX carpet first. Looks like the Blazers got to it?
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    Possible confirmation of the black/mint Charlotte FC away kit colors (can't speak to the credibility):
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    This does a pretty elegant job of tying together a very scattered visual history. I really like this logo, I'd been hoping they'd try something like this since the move to Brooklyn:
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    The Wall Street Journal has a good piece (paywalled) summarizing where things stand right now with the Montreal/Tampa snowbird scenario. It even has a logo mashup as awkward as the arraignment it describes: And here's are the key paragraphs: And SportsNet has this interesting speculation:
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    New uniform sponsor for the Nets/Liberty/LI Nets/Nets Gaming:
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    This as American leagues, teams, media outlets, and seemingly everyone else involved with sports is rushing to make deals with sports gambling companies. Maybe we should pay attention to the country that tried all of this a few decades before us?
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    Mississippi's choices have been narrowed down to two:
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    I just hope they can coordinate the promotional schedules so we don't end up with the Homestead Grays playing the Des Moines Deep Fried Corn Cobs.
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    He replaced the Tappan Zee with a new bridge that improves on the old one by not being in imminent danger of falling into the Hudson River, rammed it through while ignoring recommendations that it include much-needed tracks for Metro North that would have actually alleviated traffic, and named it after his dad. So this is basically the vexillological equivalent of that.
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    Yeah, a vain, unproductive change when a more ambitious and forward-thinking option would be called for is just about right.
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    New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to add "E Pluribus Unum" to the state seal, and hence the state flag. If this passes, it would be a huge missed opportunity to go big and truly revamp one of the least interesting state flags in the country.
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    I saw this in my in-laws' magazine basket a few years ago and I think about it every time his name comes up:
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    Aesthetics aside, it bothers me that the C is emphasized and not the N. Unless it's the main, central campus (i.e. UNC, tOSU), schools that are part of a statewide university system usually (and, in my opinion, should) emphasize their city in their athletic identities, not the state name.
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    It seems like Seattle might have some kind of deal with OKC to retain their identity and history. And perhaps we can all agree that the their approach to "sharing" their history, as described in that article, is completely effed. Like, what would that even look like if the Sonics come back?
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    I should clarify that I also think records should also reside with the team's lineage, and not the franchise's. I don't think George Shinn's scumbaggery should determine who the Charlotte Hornets' all-time leading scorer is - it should be the guy who scored the most points as Charlotte Hornet, regardless of which iteration of the team it was. It's part of the team culture that should belong to the fans, not the rich guy who owns the team.
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    I don't see it as ahistorical to separate the history of the team (players, culture, memories, records, identity) from the history of the franchise (the business entity). The franchise is fundamentally a license from the league to own a team. Art Modell used his license to own the Cleveland Browns team, then he used it to own the Baltimore Ravens, and someone else bought a license and used it to own the Cleveland Browns. The history and culture of the team stayed with the city and the fans who valued it instead of being grafted to a city and fanbase that had no connection to it. This isn't defacing history; it's keeping it where it's relevant.
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    I mean, they didn't burn all evidence of their previous iterations moving. They didn't fanfic alternate histories for the missing seasons. They just adopted historical identities for their teams, ones that fans in these cities felt an attachment to. Which, to me, is better than having Muggsy Bouges Bobblehead Night in New Orleans.
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    This is where I come down on it too. Each team has its own history and can decide what parts of it are relevant to its current iteration and to its fanbase. Some teams have maintained a connection to former cities and some have prefered to emphasize their current home. Some have even embraced the history of other franchises that preceded them in that city. All of these things are fine. Nobody's taking a sharpie to the history books.
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    Seems like Syracuse might be going back to one of their old logos: Still on their site as of now: https://store.nike.com/us/en_us/pw/collegiate/80o?vst=college&redirect=true&ipp=120 If it's real, I think it's a downgrade. I like their current identity and system, and this is one of the weaker and more generic ones in their history.
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    I'm usually a stickler for consistency of design elements across all of a university's sports, but I love the idea of having a crest design for use on the school's soccer kits (I only noticed this as part of the photo set from this unveiling, but it looks like it was unveiled last summer):
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    The Kannapolis Intimidators will get a new identity after the 2019 season ends:
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    If you're a vexillophile and an NBA fan, New Era's new Tip Off collection is for you: https://www.lids.com/search/nba tip off 59fifty Some of these turned out pretty well! Not sure how they decided whether to use city or state flags, I would've liked to see how some of the California teams in particular would've turned out with their city flags.
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