why do players wear long sleeve undershirts in practice?

[FlashTheKilla]

Some people prefer long sleeves. David Beckham wears long sleeves during outdoor games in the intense heat. The best bowler in the NBA is Damon Jones. I heard that he's really good.

Damon is money at bowling.

They had an ESPN Bowling night with celebrities a while back: http://espn.go.com/eoe/bowlingNight.html

From what I remember, Damon won by a pretty huge margin, and Wade sucked.

[Harry10]

the new material they have, i actually feel cooler when i wear it. it is supose to bead off the sweat faster. i still sweat, but for some reason it feels like i'm not wearing sweat as bad.

[kooldude]

i guess it look kool

SURE DOES

[MartyConlonOnTheRun]

Probabley to cover up the herion track marks.


Best thread ever. Tell me, should we all make threads about every little random sports related thing that pops into our heads? I didn't realize we were operating in that manner here. Fair enough. Gotta' go though, great thread idea just came to me...


"Who do you think is the best bowler in the NBA?"

Paul Pierce, of course.

*Waits for the five page debate on whether Kobe, Pierce or MJ was the best bowler of all time*

[Dentor]

The long sleeves keep the sweat from evaporating as quickly, thus actually keeping your body cooler.

You're kidding right? Heat is lost with sweat when it evaporates, ergo cooling.
But I'm just going to assume you were kidding.

Wrong, sweat cools your body, if it evaporates, ergo, no more cooling. The sweat is what cools you, when its gone you're hot.