When did the “Uni Watch” column begin?
May of 1999. It originally ran in the sports pages of The Village Voice (they already had a column devoted to hockey fights, so adding a uniform column wasn’t much of a stretch). It was a very small column in those days, and it was designed primarily for print, not for the Web, so there weren’t any photo links (you can see that material here). When the Voice sports section was eliminated in 2003, I briefly moved the column to Slate.com, where I started taking advantage of all of the photos available on the Web (that material is here). Then, in August of 2004, I moved the column to ESPN.com, where I added the News Ticker, expanded the follow-up sections, and so on. I hope this will be the column’s permanent home — I have no desire for “Uni Watch” to become the Todd Zeile of sports journalism.
