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NFL Logos As European Soccer Badges, Part II
Football As Football, a project by a Minneapolis-based team of designers to reimagine all 32 NFL logos as crests in the style of various European soccer leagues, has entered Phase 2 of 4. That means that if you didn't love your team's badge the first time around, you've now got two styles to choose ...

Minimalist NHL Logos Might Be Even Better Than The Real Things
The true test of a sharp, resonant logo is if it can be stripped down to its barest elements and still be recognizable. That's why we'll post just about any minimalist designs we find, including two different sets of NHL logos....

Every NHL Team As A <em>Mega Man</em> Sprite
Reddit user adam4283 has created 31 sprites (including the North Stars) from everybody's favorite 8-bit side-scrolling platform shooter. For just a few pixels, it's amazing how instantly recognizable most teams are. That's testament to Adam's work, as well as the clean and distinctive logos and colo...

NFL Logos As European Soccer Badges
The best thing on the internet right now is Football as Football, a site that redesigns NFL logos as if they were crests for European soccer teams....

Hot Rods In HDR
From the cool design site, Abduzeedo, dig this post on Hot Rods in HDR. ...

SJSU Puts Scary Spartans On Basketball Court
The San Jose State Spartans are the latest college basketball team to get in on the over-the-top court design trend. FIU's beach towel is pretty cool, but not as cool as five angry Spartan warriors who are poised to stab you in the face!...

Check Out (And Nitpick) These Redesigned NFL Logos
Redditor OspreyDawn, aka graphic designer Max O'Brien, spent the last several months creating the complete set of NFL redesigned logos you see above. This sort of thing happens periodically–here are some minimalist logos from January–but it's still a daunting task, and a good reminder that a. making...

Here Are The 2014 Olympic Medals
Today at the IOC executive board meetings in St. Petersburg, the medals for the 2014 Sochi Olympics were officially unveiled. Uh, Russia? It looks like a big chunk is missing....

The Prospective Designs For The Atlanta Falcons' New Stadium Are Crazy
The Atlanta Falcons are building a new stadium, and the Georgia World Congress Center has compiled a report with a few prospective designs and amenities that might be featured at the new stadium. They are crazy....

"What A Joke This Sport Is!" Jeff Van Gundy Is Not A Fan Of The Designated Hitter Rule
The Thunder's beat-down of the Lakers last night got a little boring towards the end, as beat-downs will, and unlike some spectators, Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy were contractually obligated to remain in their seats. Naturally, talk turned to the designated hitter, and—like many people, but in h...

This Might Be The New Dolphins Logo
It never did make sense that the Miami logo showed a dolphin wearing a football helmet, when a dolphin is the one NFL mascot that would be suffocated by wearing a helmet. But as part of a rebranding effort to leave behind years upon years of losing—Gloria Estefan! Stadium renovations!—the Dolphins w...

Miguel Batista No Longer On Best Team In Baseball
To be fair, he never really was on the best team in baseball, but the Mets designated Miguel Batista for assignment on Sunday morning....

Designated Shitters: Help Deadspin Plumb The Secrets Of MLB Restrooms
From Fenway to Camden Yards to Marlins Park, baseball is defined by the built environment. We've already surveyed the big picture. Now it's time to explore the depths. We're looking for photos and stories to build an online guide to the restrooms of Major League Baseball—the Yelp of plop, you might ...

The Marlins' Home Run Sculpture Is The Whirling, Flashing, Spouting Heart Of Baseball At Its Best
Tacky! Boy, is that new kinetic sculpture beyond the Marlins’ outfield fence tacky. Tacky like their tacky new uniforms are tacky. Tacky like the Miami Marlins’ tackily alliterative revised name, highlighting the tacky metropolis they call home. ...

The Carolina Panthers Logo Gets An Update
The new logo, the first since the team's expansion year, is "modernized" to "provide a more aggressive, contemporary look" and make it more "three-dimensional." The "subtle updates" reflect a "tougher, more defined panther." Lots of corporate buzzwords needed just to say they got rid of the eyebrows...

Readers: Let's Come Up With A Less Awful Trophy For The Winner Of Iowa-Iowa State
Now that the Iowa Corn Growers Association and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board have abandoned their ill-fated agrarian-robot-family-allegory design for the Cy-Hawk Trophy, how will the victors in the annual football showdown between Iowa and Iowa State know they've won? Please help bail out the corn i...

Le Mans Driver Makes Convincing Case That What He Does Is Athletic
Co.Design takes a look at the Audi commercial featuring Scottish driver Allan McNish, who explains the toll the 24 hour Le Mans race — which is the "equivalent of an entire Formula One season — takes on his body. Woozy motion graphics ahead. [Co.Design]...

Coco Crisp's Armed Security Team Was Following In Another Car When He Got DUI Stopped
Maybe Covelli Loyce Crisp thought a Dodge pickup truck was beneath him. Or maybe the truck was full. There's a chance he just didn't want to leave his Rolls at a sushi joint or a Scottsdale, Arizona club called Smashboxx....

Welcome To The New Deadspin Redesign
Hi. Weird, RIGHT? Anyway, you were warned this was going to happen. So here it is. In all its splashy glory, so follow along with me and I'll attempt to guide you through this ordeal....

We've Just Mailed Out Our First Super Bowl XLV Bounty Hunt Check For This Jimmy Johnson Photo
A pleasant reader named Noah emailed us in with an offer for a photo of Jimmy Johnson stocking up at a Dallas liquor store as part of our XLV Bounty Hunt stupidity. We gave him an offer. He accepted....