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SPORTICO: Fanatics Expands Headwear Business with acquisition of Vetta Brands Assets
The world’s largest seller of licensed sports apparel is using money from a recent funding round to expand its headwear business. Fanatics is buying a handful of assets from Vetta Brands, including the headwear-licensee Top of the World and its rights to more than 600 universities. It is also taking over the brand’s 220,000 square foot warehouse in Norman, Okla., which will become the base of Fanatics’s headwear business…
THE ATHLETIC: Brotherly Love: How a Sixers co-partner is getting stars of all kinds to pitch in
Michael Rubin has never been one to sit around the house idly, and especially not one to watch live television. But these shelter-at-home days have forced many into uncomfortable and unusual positions as people collectively attempt to diminish the spread of COVID-19. Rubin’s days had been filled with hours of unsettling CNN consumption until he plotted ways to combat the bad news scrolling on those chryons at the bottom of his big screen.