Kehinde Wiley: Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps
We love when the classics mesh with contemporary. This masterpiece by Kehinde Wiley was first spotted by us in the Brooklyn Museum a few years back. This piece stands gloriously in the lobby space ...
For Mud, Blood and Tears
It’s summer sevens time and that means extra sweat. It’s also rugby season so mud, blood and cool beers is a given. We’ve carefully designed a Bakline bandana to help you with all the above. Anchor...
Update on Taking Flight Scholarship Recipient
Bakline Taking Flight recipient Darrin Curle (on left) won the National Guard Minuteman Award presented to the student athlete who best embodies the following characteristics: ready to help, enthus...
Music to our eyes!
Legends! to the left: Artimus Pyle -Drummer for (Lynyrd Skynyrd) to the right: Vini Lopez -Drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s (E Street Band) in the middle: T.O.N.E-z-Lyrical Master ”one day I’ll be a...
Tyron Louw: Photographer
Browsing the interwebs for ideas, inspiration or entertainment each day we sometimes come across something that makes us stop in our tracks and simply enjoy. Enter Tyron Louw’s collection of sports...
Cardiff Rugby Business Network
(Above) Welsh paralympian David Roberts, rugby internationals and brothers Steve and Andy Moore, RBN’s Iain Richards, and Bakline co founder Matt VosBurgh On Wednesday 20th of February, the first C...
ARTST TLK with Tony Hawk
Two people we admire for their contributions to music, art and sport sit down and discuss the story behind Tony Hawk’s rise to champion the board and the business of the skateboard. More a discussi...
One of our favorites…
About ten years ago Men’s Journal ran a campaign titled “Live the Interesting Life” with visually driven ads that wonderfully portrayed that life without portraying a particular man or what he look...
Rugby Costumes!
Rugby is a game chock-full of traditions! We started highlighting some of them in our previous post, i.e. handshakes, songs, bus trips, etc. One of our favorite, fashionable traditions is the creat...
Rugby Traditions
We can all agree that rugby is an amazing sport. The hits, the breaks, the team set-up tries and epic struggle between domestic leagues and continental struggles amongst nations. But why do you lo...
Helping to Rebuild Haiti: Update
It wasn’t long ago and among a growing list of devastating earthquakes around the world, Haiti suffered a major one that rattled the towns and spirits of the people. We jumped in with many others o...