Delaware is officially in

[BreakersFan]

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3416295

Delaware is officially in as of this morning. The only small bit of confusion is that the Delaware team is the relocated Breakers, so I am not sure why they are calling it an expansion team. No matter anyway.

The short, sad, frustrating ABA/USBL life of the Breakers is finally officially over. Best wishes in Blue Rock country....

[sportsguy12]

It's a complete rip-off of the WNBA's San Antonio Stars. Like it's the same. Exactly!

http://www.usbl.com/

http://www.wnba.com/silverstars/tickets/

There's no way that the WNBA/NBA will let them do this.

[toad455]

I thought the same thing. It's is a clear rip-off and the WNBA will not let them get away with this. Why would the USBL allow this??

[sportsguy12]

I thought the same thing. It's is a clear rip-off and the WNBA will not let them get away with this. Why would the USBL allow this??

http://delawaredestroyers.net/

It's the same as the old Texas Rim Rockers of the USBL.

http://www.logoserver.com/USBL.html

[BreakersFan]

Good lord. For a name as generic as the Stars, no one could come up with anything better than stealing another team's logo? That is poor.... bad start for the Stars.

[sportsguy12]

Good lord. For a name as generic as the Stars, no one could come up with anything better than stealing another team's logo? That is poor.... bad start for the Stars.

make it a minor league team that isn't mainstream.

What about:

the old Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars of the USFL
Huntsville Stars of the Southern League
Utah Starzz of the WNBA, which are now defunct
Columbus Stars (hockey and soccer - both defunct)

I would have used the old Destroyers logo anyway. Stars is too plain, especially with a stolen logo.

Good job USBL, way to police this!

[BreakersFan]

make it a minor league team that isn't mainstream.

What about:

the old Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars of the USFL
Huntsville Stars of the Southern League
Utah Starzz of the WNBA, which are now defunct
Columbus Stars (hockey and soccer - both defunct)

I would have used the old Destroyers logo anyway. Stars is too plain, especially with a stolen logo.

Good job USBL, way to police this!

Interesting note: The Stars logo does NOT appear anywhere on the USBL website.

[sportsguy12]

Interesting note: The Stars logo does NOT appear anywhere on the USBL website.

I wonder if someone dropped the ball from the USBL and didn't double check the team's logo before the press conference. When they realized it, the USBL told them they wouldn't include it.

The other thing I could think of was that they just grabbed a "Stars" logo for the press conference and planned to release their logo in the future. But why?

[preeths]

The other thing I could think of was that they just grabbed a "Stars" logo for the press conference and planned to release their logo in the future. But why?

Yes, that's it. It was merely a placeholder. For whatever reason, the team did not have its final logo ready by the press conference, though it is being worked on. Not sure if they got a late start on it, the designer was late or what. From what I've been able to tell, there isn't anything more to it.

[panchess]

The USBL is a public corporation. I am assuming all businesses would check this kind of thing to avoid lawsuits (though the ABA has had trademark issues), but the due diligence is a bit higher for a publicly-traded entity.

[preeths]

This is a relatively minor detail to check, and the USBL may not have seen the logo, since it is a placeholder, until the day of the press conference. With no merchandise available or ability to profit off the logo in any way at this time, there's no harm, no foul.

[sportsguy12]

This is a relatively minor detail to check, and the USBL may not have seen the logo, since it is a placeholder, until the day of the press conference. With no merchandise available or ability to profit off the logo in any way at this time, there's no harm, no foul.

why take the time to concoct a logo. Why not just put the word Delaware on the same board as the USBL logo?

I've worked in the world of sports management before and this behavior just isn't the way professional sports teams are run.

[preeths]

I don't know why they didn't do something. Perhaps they just didn't think about it. Perhaps they called on their logo designer for something, and he forwarded it to them. I don't know. All I know is that this was a very simple, low-res black-and-white logo that wasn't meant to be anything more than a placeholder.