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Lonzo Ball has made many memories over his 19-year existence, with the last few months having bred a significant number of unforgettable ones, including designation as a First-Team All-American and the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year for his basketball feats at UCLA. Ahead of tomorrow’s NCAA Tournament opener in Sacramento, the star point guard can…
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How do you build a brand that connects in meaningful ways? How do you tell your business story in a compelling way? What’s the art behind building brands that look beautiful and perform magnificently? Those are the topics behind the two-day professional development at the Northwest Promotional Marketing Association (NWPMA) show in Portland, Ore., on…
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Numerous athletes, including current basketball behemoth LeBron James and Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Felix Hernandez, have earned nicknames that feature “King” in them, but for many sports enthusiasts, only one star, Arnold Palmer, deserves the sobriquet “The King.” (Fans of NASCAR dynamo Richard Petty, lob your complaints here.) The golfing legend left us Sept. 25…
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We’ve been wracking our brains trying to think of the perfect Bowie/space reference to lead in here, but the options are almost too plentiful, so we’re just going to give it to you straight: A set of David Bowie commemorative stamps made their way to stratosphere via helium balloon as a memorial of his death…
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A 3-year-old in Harrisburg, Pa., died on Saturday after a hoverboard caught fire in her home. Though hoverboards have been considered dangerous for a while now (they were publicly condemned as dangerous by the CPSC and recalled en masse), CNN reported that this is the first death caused by a hoverboard fire in the U.S.…
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Vantage Apparel, Avanel, N.J., announced the addition of Christian Brandt as the new Northeast sales manager. Brandt joins Vantage Apparel as an experienced and highly-accomplished sales professional in the promotional products industry, having most recently worked for Leed’s, where he received several…
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There’s no denying that athleisure staples, like yoga pants, continue to dominate the apparel market. However, everyone’s yoga pants obsession might come with a major drawback, according to U.S. News & World Report. Gulf Coast researchers are launching a two-year study into the microscopic plastics that make their…
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From “Nasty Woman” T-shirts to “She Persisted” baseball caps, we’ve seen a huge uptick in feminist apparel items. And while many of the T-shirts donate proceeds to human rights organizations, there might be issues with human rights at the manufacturing level. Activist apparel has always existed, but…
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A German online retailer sold T-shirts the Chinese Embassy in Berlin found so offense that it demanded their removal, according to USA Today. Online shop Spreadshirt.de sold T-shirts with controversial slogans, like “Save a dog, eat a Chinese,” which apparently did not go over so well with the Chinese…
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You know what they say—all press is good press. That, at least, seems true when it comes to Ivanka Trump’s clothing line. While her brand is embroiled in a boycott, and multiple retailers have dropped her label, she seems to have come out unscathed. Not only that, but…
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