Red Wings from Free Press

Ryan Ford shares the cover again from the Red Wings elimination in the NHL playoffs.

Justin Verlander throws no-hitter

And Ryan Ford of the Detroit Free Press was nice enough to share the paper's work.

Baseball 2011

Luke Knox just dropped an email that was about 26 MB. I thought, wow, this is a huge file, Luke. Then when I saw it, and I said wow again. This is some really cool stuff. And now, the Boston Globe 2011 baseball section ... 20 pages of goodness focusing on injury problems the Red Sox had last season. I don't have time to post it all right now. Here's a taste, I'll post more later.

NCAA Tournament Week 1

Luke Knox from the Boston Globe sends in the front page from Selection Sunday.

Also, a comprehensive NCAA page from John Hancock of the Dallas Morning News. Also, Wayne Kamidoi of the New York Times sent some solid stuff here. He said it was a team effort between himself, Sam Manchester and Lee Yarosh. Michael Murdock (rocket) illustration and Bob Eckstein also pitched in. The region page is a double truck. 

                        

NCAA Tournament pages wanted

please send to drw101@gmail.com. thanks.

REFS FLUSHED BY THE NY POST

New York Post went all out on the headline today for yesterday's Rutgers-St. John's Big East matchup at the Garden.

A VULGAR BYLINE

I have seen many, many typos during my stint in the newspaper business thus far. But none have been as glaring as this. The funny thing is I was sports editor at the Western Courier for three years while I was at Western Illinois University. But listen to the Editor in Chief tell the WQAD reporter that is in their byline template. I wouldn't have broadcasted that.

APSE announcing 2010 winners

The APSE Winter Conference in Indy is beginning to wrap today and tomorrow. Many winners have been announced. Check out the list at the website.

Oregon-inspired Basketball courts

If you haven't seen the Oregon basketball court yet, it's ... well, I'll say different.
Freelance designer took the idea and applied it to other courts across the nation. Would love to play on the KFC Yum! Center. Check out the rest here.

A Post too far?

The New York Post cover today had a picture of the 17-year old high school girl that reportedly had a relationship with Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez. This has little to do with design and more to do with the choice of putting a minor's picture on the cover. Here's the page:

Loco for (hockey) Logos

Yeah, it's just hockey, so don't get too excited. But, with help of others, I came across two interesting posts yesterday about team's and their logos.

Wayne Kamidoi from the New York Times shared an interesting article on the Times website about the Tampa Bay Lighting logo.

Charle's Apple's ACES blog tells us about a Whaler's logo that was ripped off.

Super Bowl XLV postgame

Ben Howard from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sends it's page from the game. They stuck with more than one main photo as they did in the AFC title game.  The Pittsburgh Tribune Review sends in their cover to a 22-page special section they did. I do wonder why there is black screen with white lines, drop shadows on everything, and why the text isn't bold/heavy on the words "must wait." They might have had staff photogs there, but a head shot of Keisel was the best option? Let me know.

Also, the Dallas Morning News and two Star-Ledger pages: A preview, and the monday gamer. And as an extra added bonus, a page from Luke Knox and the Boston Globe highlighting Terrific Tom's unanimous MVP.

Super Bowl XLV from Dallas Morning News

Ronnie Richard sends in some pages from the Dallas Morning News. John Hancock promises more tonight, but until then we'll start with these. The Aaron Rodgers illo and layout and the Ben Roethlisberger illo and layout are by John Hancock. Ronnie Richard's layout worked well with the Michael Hogue Lombardi/Landry illustration.

  


SportsDay at the Dallas Morning News pumped out some sharp work this week. 
The team of John Hancock, Michael Rogue, Ronnie Richard and Chris Morris shines.

 

 

Super Bowl XLV

Ben Howard shares pages from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The cover illustration is by Dan Marsula. The inside page tracking every win in each team's history is by Ben.

Extra pages with cover illustration by Stacy Innerst.

Gone. and Gone.

We have all seen the LeBron cover from the Plain Dealer.
But another Plain Dealer cover I came across used the word "Gone." to describe the exit of another former Cleveland athlete — Brady Quinn. Not quite the same impact (although that day made my authentic Quinn Browns jersey completely unwearable ... ugh).

Steelers win, Jets lose

Ben Howard with page from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Also, the Star-Ledger cover, with Chris Faytok photo. Ronnie Richard shares his page from the Dallas Morning News with an assist from John Hancock on the graphic at the bottom of the page. I'm sure with the Super Bowl being in Dallas, we'll be seeing much from them in the future. Luke Knox and the Boston Globe also share their page.

Championship week primer

Michael Sansone of the Chicago Tribune was nice enough to share some work with SDO. These pages are a lead-up to the NFC title game. There is also a Seahawks pages from last week. My favorite is the time line from the double truck. Tons of information presented cleanly. Very smart.
Ben Howard shares the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette preview cover by Daniel Marsula and Steve Ziants.
The Ledger pages were done by me ... Had fun doing the Rex photo illo. Great main on cover from beat writer Jenny Vrentas.
I ate and slept FGs all week. Page tracked every field goal in Heinz Field history. Tracked misses and makes in frozen weather and winds more than 15 mph.