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Steigerwald, like school on Sunday: No class

Posted 14 April 2011 by Tex Connally
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ron-burgundy

Bad sports columns happen every day. But every once in a while, a particularly wretched screed presents thoughts so vile that the entire internet, seemingly, responds in unified wrath. Such was the case when pornstachioed cretin John Steigerwald of the Washington (Pa.) Observer-Reporter wrote a column that blamed San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow for [...]

Threads notebook: Jays feeling blue?

Posted 8 April 2011 by Tex Connally
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Blue Jays 1977 logo

Rumors, I mean, rumours from our civilized cousins to the north suggest that the Toronto Blue Jays might return to using blue as a primary color in the near future. Odd that the ballclub presently uses black as its primary color — after all, the team nickname includes the word blue. But such is the [...]

Uni blog comin’!

Posted 28 March 2011 by Tex Connally
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Sports graphics are art. As such, they can reach into the gut. For some, the “Dodgers” script logo or the Boston “B” are as Botticelli’s Venus or Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party. Symbols of something — a dream, an ideal, a memory, a way of life. The intersection of sports and design is an [...]