All articles by Pedro Rodríguez – Page 3

  • Futbol-emotion
    News briefs

    Fútbol Emotion opens second Italian store

    2024-04-19T12:36:00Z

    Sports Emotion has opened its second store of the year, according to CMDsport. The first was a third Basketball Emotion store in Spain, located in Zaragoza. This one is the second Fútbol Emotion store in Italy, in the city of Arese, Milan province – not far from the Italian beachhead ...

  • MLB Nike Fanatics
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    The boys of summer, mismatches and a new name for the sweat stain

    2024-04-13T08:39:00Z

    This season’s uniforms for Major League Baseball (MLB), with Nike design and Fanatics manufacturing, are proving to be something of a flop – or a sop. Tops don’t match bottoms, details once specific to a team are now uniform throughout the league, names have shrunk to illegibility from the stands, ...

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    Shein considers supply chain as a service

    2024-03-28T06:07:00Z

    Shein seeks to package its method of “small-batch, on-demand production” and sell it as a service to other brands and designers. So reads a letter to its investors that the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) says it has reviewed. Although founded in China, the fast-fashion brand now operates out of Singapore, ...

  • PGA Tour
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    Famous non-golfers among PGA Tour Enterprises’ investors

    2024-03-12T12:46:00Z

    As we have been reporting, the PGA Tour struck a deal with the consortium known as Strategic Sports Group (SSG) to found PGA Tour Enterprises in January and disclosed the member of the venture’s board of directors earlier this month. The PGA Tour has now confirmed a piece in the ...

  • Intersport
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    CEO out at Intersport Spain

    2024-03-06T15:25:00Z

    The board of directors for Intersport Spain has removed Intersport Spain CEO (director general) Ángel Solores, according to Diffusion Sport and others. The change in management is apparently intended to effect a change of management – one that will make a three-year strategic plan, for 2024–27, a priority. To carry ...

  • Kirpun - 42 House - Rift Valley, Kenya
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    Decathlon’s Kenyan running project, and some others

    2024-02-19T08:24:00Z

    Decathlon has opened a training center for distance runners. Located in Iten, Kenya, with a rooftop view of the Rift Valley, the center consists of a 500-square-meter main building, with 11 bedrooms of 25 square meters each, a gym and a refectory. It is built to lodge 22 runners at ...

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    Google is phasing out the cookie

    2024-01-23T16:50:00Z

    In a plan subject to approval from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Google is hoping to eliminate the third-party cookie from its browser, Chrome, in the second half of this year. Meanwhile, the company is rolling out to 1 percent of Chrome’s users a new thing called Tracking ...

  • Golf, golf ball
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    A review of pro golf’s pending big deal

    2024-01-17T15:11:00Z

    According to Front Office Sports, the CEOs of two major golf leagues are stepping down, namely Keith Pelley of the DP World Tour (the former European Tour) and Martin Slumbers of the R&A, the sport’s governing body in the UK and operator of the Open Championship. Pelley will be replaced ...

  • Padel - Tomasz Krawczyk - unsplash
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    A year in review for padel

    2023-12-16T16:07:00Z

    Source: Playtomic Global Padel Report 2023 Monitor Deloitte and Playtomic have released their second annual Global Pádel Report, available online, and the results are rosy. Some predictions The report considers that the post-Covid boom is over and that the “surge” in club and court constriction has continued. ...

  • PPA - MLP
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    New alliance, and new level of business, in pickleball

    2023-09-23T07:23:00Z

    Major League Pickleball by Margaritaville (MLP) and Carvana Pro Pickleball Association Tour (PPA Tour) have merged “under a unified and definitive professional pickleball holding company.” The deal will preserve the two brands – the PPA Tour being a “traditional, bracket-style tour” and the MLP being a “team-based, coed league.” Combined, ...

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    Have NFT-issuing sports brands entered a new business?

    2023-09-05T12:18:00Z

    BlockFi, OpenSea, Coinbase, Binance, FTX, Ripple, Impact Theory, Grayscale – all of them companies that have undergone investigation and government-initiated lawsuits over the past couple of years. The land of crypto, where sports brands have begun to tread over the past few years, is a land of confusion, and not ...

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    Meta up in Q2 except in the metaverse

    2023-07-29T06:44:00Z

    “We had a good quarter,” is CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s summation. “We continue to see strong engagement across our apps, and we have the most exciting roadmap I’ve seen in a while with Llama 2, Threads, Reels, new AI products in the pipeline, and the launch of Quest 3 this fall.” ...

  • Twitter headquarters
    Article

    Twitter to become nothing, anything, everything

    2023-07-26T08:50:00Z

    It appears that we were on to something a few months ago. Twitter has taken another step towards becoming X – “the everything app.” But what does this mean, and why the change in a brand as iconic as Twitter? We take a look.

  • Padel - Tomasz Krawczyk - unsplash
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    A “courtside” look at the pádel market

    2023-07-13T08:15:00Z

    Sales have been flat so far this year at Padel Courts Deluxe, CEO Fernando Cánovas tells CMDsport. Now that mid-year is behind us, moreover, he believes it safe to say that 2023 will be a year of transition in the pádel-court business, with growth picking up once more in the ...

  • textiles via Pixabay
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    Fashion fast and slow, preferably slow

    2023-05-31T11:25:00Z

    A number of European mayors, many of them attending the latest edition of the ChangeNOW show in Paris, have signed the “Declaration to Drive Sustainable Fashion.” The declaration is an appeal to the EU, the G7 and the OECD to tip the fashion industry’s playing field in slow fashion’s favor. ...

  • amazon-logo
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    Amazon puts the moves on France

    2023-04-21T06:06:00Z

    In the Pixar movie of the same name, a Provençal dish called ratatouille serves to save the soul of a crotchety old food critic in France. The stewed vegetables produce an epiphany, hitting the critic like the madeleine hit Proust, and transport him back “in search of lost time” or ...

  • Zuckerberg avatar
    Article

    What if the metaverse settled for something simple?

    2023-04-13T05:41:00Z

    BitNile Metaverse says that its metaverse at BitNile.com has surpassed 500,000 “active users” in the month since it opened its “early-access phase.” Question is, why should we care? After all, a single metaverse like Roblox – which, as our readers might recall, has deals with Nike, Adidas, H&M and FIFA ...

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    Towards a money tweet?

    2023-04-12T14:19:00Z

    The Delaware corporation known as Twitter was merged into a new Nevada corporation known as X Corp. on March 15. This is according to SilverFlume, the business portal for the latter U.S. state. The owner of both, Elon Musk, has since tweeted a message consisting of a single letter: X. ...

  • Metaverse - Julien Tromeur - Unsplash
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    Tokens here and everywhere

    2023-03-30T07:00:00Z

    In a study it has recently released titled “Digital Assets Trends,” a company by the name of Reply has concluded that tokenization can be universal. In other words, just about anything can be turned into or paired with a digital asset on a blockchain. Over the past couple of years, ...

  • Madeium and Intertrust Shoe by Yxung
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    For indie sneakers, all players in one arena

    2023-03-17T07:12:00Z

    A first decentralized brand for sneakers has seen the light of digital day on a platform created by a company called Madeium and run in part with tech from a company called Intertrust. Under the name Yxung, the brand runs on a peer-to-peer (P2P) model. You might remember P2P as ...