This year, athletes are taking their merchandising into their own hands, and the results are intriguing. Just this week, Dwyane Wade launched a line of apparel called the "D. Wade World Tour" to celebrate his last year in the NBA, and Patrick Mahomes launched his own line of branded apparel through his personal website...
Athletic and Sportswear
Ten years ago, if you wore sweatpants and a racerback tank in public, friends would ask if you were headed to the gym. Then, you would have to shamefully say you were actually heading to Chipotle to scarf down a burrito, which was usually met with a judgmental head nod. Flash forward to 2019, and athletic and performance apparel is a streetwear staple...
This week has been a dismal one for me: The Philadelphia Eagles were eliminated from the NFL playoffs, my brother beat me several times in the Settlers of Catan, and it's been raining nonstop in Los Angeles where I live (I know, it's hard to feel bad for me). So, I sought to cheer myself…
In response to the growing popularity of menswear, Nike is investing big in men's apparel. Just this week, the athletic apparel giant launched a new collection of yoga apparel for men...
Remember the good old days when vending machines were just for Kit Kats and Pepsi? Over the past few years, vending machines have become distributors of everything from headphones to puffy vests, and we guess this is the future. (Hopefully this means they'll stop eating our dollars). It turns out the airport is the perfect…
There's been a lot of news this week surrounding Under Armour, and it's not exactly positive. Yahoo Finance reported that the company let go of two marketing executives over spending concerns. This comes one month after the company told its employees they could no longer pay for strip-club visits on their corporate cards...
Ugly sweaters: Every sports team, musician and fast food company seems to have their own iteration of the holiday's hottest trend. But running shoe company Brooks just proved you don't need to do sweaters to get in on the ugly sweater trend...
This week, the Syracuse University men's basketball team and the NFL's Chicago Bears misspelled jerseys of a couple roster members, with the former squad’s mistake being especially amusing...
The World Series is over, with the Boston Red Sox cruising to a 4-1 series win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. But, honestly, who cares, because we need to talk about the digital vending machines Adidas used to dispense piles of branded World Series merchandise and promote a new line of shoes...
Now these leaked Timberwolves jerseys could be completely fake, but verifiable news sites are jumping on the bandwagon, so we think it's fair game. Between redditors and certain masters of Twitter, it seems there's a good possibility that we have an image of the Timberwolves Prince-inspired jerseys. And we think they contain just the right amount of Purple Rain.