MJWalker45

I trust the Sun to be truthful in anything about as much as I trust a guy with a hook to do my colonoscopy.

Triple A All Star Game has gone back to each player wearing their regular uniforms. Way better than league specific uniforms they've had the last few years.

Look up Doug Houvenor's web site. It should be there.

Probably using local setup and they didn't send an update.

And parts of Texas as well.

Same people who did that in 2001. Some people will like the city name items over team names. I'm hoping the uniforms settle somewhere between XFL 2001 and AAF in terms of design elements. Orlando Rage were good except for the numbers. Memphis was overdone as well. Just make sure to have home and away jerseys ready, even if you only plan to sell home jerseys.

If they go with Wild, Sasquatch would make a good mascot logo.

I'll agree that branding is one thing, but teams need to fill calendar dates and if the American doesn't have anyone to fill UConn's slots in 2020, they'll probably just play those games. At some point though, teams need to fill slots and UConn can help fill slots that would've been used on FCS schools. Scheduling is not as desperate as people make it out to be. The problem for UConn is not having a cut of the conference pie that they would have by staying put. I'm actually surprised this move is based more on basketball than football because the reason the original Big East broke up was football taking over as the major sport in their bigger schools. You should still be able to recruit the same areas you did before no matter what league you're in and supposedly this will help men's basketball with recruiting and women's basketball with tougher games. I think the first part is possible, I don't think that second part is true.

They'd have to go with the Army model. That's the simplest way to go. They may get that big payoff game at Michigan or Alabama, but they will also probably be looking at games against their old conference mates just to get 12 games in. Heck, Rutgers and Maryland may be very happy to host them early in the season or even in the middle of the Big Ten schedule.

And everyone that's freaking out about football may not realize this actually helps them in that they can pretty much pick their poison throughout the year. The only detriment to them is they will probably have to play their hardest games at the start of the year just to make sure they get games against the big boys.

Manaus is not because it's in the middle of the Amazon. Others are too big for the teams in that area to afford. Maracana has had issues as well but still gets used irregularly.

I think part of the reason Brazil is hosting the Copa America is also to get actual use out of those stadiums they overpaid for. Not all of them though.

The only way that happens is if the Big XII invites them in.

I think 2030 would be the measuring stick. If it's in China or Argentina you'll see a ton of new projects to get stadiums up to code. The US, Mexican and Canadian stadiums are already built or already in the process of being built. None of that will kill over 500 people, let alone 5,000. We're also not as dystopic a nation as people think. It's just that bad news gets more attention than good news.

If Platini finally fesses up to taking bribes, they should hand it off to Australia immediately. Hell, even Blatter said he expected the US to get it before Platini had lunch with Qataris and Sarckozy.

Only in the last few years. FIFA didn't even make the water breaks mandatory until Brazil 2014. That's partly why San Antonio FC plays most of it's home matches after 7 PM in summer. The humidity adds to the heat threat.

AFCON Players Union says they need 4 water breaks during games https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48716285 African Cup of Nations is apparently forecasting temperatures of 104 F during the tournament, which is being played in Egypt. I know moving it helped the European clubs, but unless the tournament is held in the south, they need to keep this in January. Clubs may lose great players for a month but I'd rather not lose a player permanently due to heat stroke.

Search doug houvenor if you can't find it here.

That's why Thursday games usually have the best weekday attendance during the year. I thought Brandiose had done them too! Thanks for the link.

Someone should have told Minnesota that.

At Oracle I guess? Makes sense since that stadium will need new tenants.

Different fonts are sometimes a good thing. Here it's probably better to match numbers to the font but at other times it looks bad.

And judging by their uniforms, little effort is being put into the team this year. Maybe an old rivalry can help but they need more than that.

But didn't they undo the "fix" this year?

Are you talking about this? Or how the Tigers have different logos for hats and jerseys? I think for baseball the size of the caps and jerseys dictate the use of different sizes from the jerseys which have more space for a standard logo. For the Giants, the fact that away jersey has not a stitch of blue and the home jersey has no red makes the set look incomplete. I actually like the v-necks, but Nike needs to bring the collars up because they look droopy. They were even worse when the college teams were wearing them.