Yesterday’s uniform unveiling wasn’t on par with three years ago (by the way: how the hell has it been that long?) but it was interesting enough: the Orioles unleashed a fairly significant set of uniform tweaks, including the much-desired (by some) return of the Cartoon Bird. I tend to be quite interested in uniform news [...]

I woke this morning to a text message from one of my sports media friends that contained the promise of tantalizing news. A follow-up phone call delivered the goods. The Ravens are poised to unveil new uniforms later this spring. Most things (including the logo) figure to remain as they are, but there’s one huge [...]

<a href="http://www.thelosscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/jones_199x253.jpg"><img src="http://www.thelosscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/jones_199x253-157×200.jpg" alt="" title="Adam Jones in the new Orioles uniform" width="157" height="200" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1942" /></a>I’ll be heading down to Harborplace in a couple of hours to attend the big <a href="http://www.thelosscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/nov12invite.jpg" target="blank">event</a>. Most of the details of what we’ll see have already <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-orioles1111,0,2974482.story" target="blank">appeared in the <i>Sun</i></a>, but there’s no substitute for [...]

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thelosscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/christmas-gifts.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.thelosscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/christmas-gifts-133×200.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;surprise!&quot; width=&quot;133&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; class=&quot;alignleft size-medium wp-image-1933&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In case you’d forgotten or hadn’t heard, the new &lt;b&gt;Orioles&lt;/b&gt; uniforms make their debut &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thelosscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/nov12invite.jpg&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;downtown tomorrow at noon&lt;/a&gt;. According to &lt;b&gt;Roch Kubatko&lt;/b&gt;, it’s going to be a fairly &lt;a href=&quot;http://masnsports.com/2008/11/sneak-peek.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;star-studded affair&lt;/a&gt;. As you might have guessed, there’s been plenty of chatter leading [...]

Here’s the official invitation to the November 12th Orioles fan event (click for full-size). This has already made the rounds a bit, but I wanted to go ahead and put it up anyway. The hint on the cover there is pretty clear, but as we discussed earlier there’s a lot of buzz about changes beyond [...]

Lots of chatter today regarding an Orioles-related event at noon on November 12 down at Harborplace. The only official word so far is that there is an event, and that it’s being described as a “special announcement and fan rally.” There is no — I must stress, no — official confirmation regarding what will happen [...]

I just put up my latest piece for Examiner.com, about one great designer’s take on the Ravens helmet. Please click to check it out, and lemme know what you think.