Sentences with phrase «than the sport of»

Not exact matches

NYT, in interviews with more than 50 current and former employees, paints a picture of the culture at the sports apparel giant.

Most action sports brands, White says, made more than a quarter of their sales from basic clothes — T - shirts, hats, hoodies.

Yet the impact of those conversations will be much broader than just within the sport.

With sports streaming being a veritable new and unconquered frontier, it's also likely that consumers will see a higher level of competition from Rogers and Bell than they're otherwise used to.

Take some cues from Natalie Jill, licensed sports nutritionist, functional trainer and the creator of Natalie Jill Fitness, who has more than 1 million followers between Facebook and Instagram and whose at - home fitness videos often receive as many as 2 million views on Facebook.

Currently, the sports and fitness industry is an estimated 0.7 % of GDP in China — and Chinese officials aim to grow the market to more than RMB 3 trillion ($ 460 billion), 1 % of GDP, by 2020.

Back in 2000, when more than a 100 people died in Ford Explorers, many of them equipped with Firestone tires, there was a national debate over large sport - utility vehicles and whether they were prone to rollover.

But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

Our tester was equipped with all - wheel - drive, and while it was fine for whatever we threw at it in the suburbs and the big city, the proclivity toward a rear - wheel bias means that the Stelvio is more for the «sport» part of SUV than the «utility» part.

The central thesis of CEO - Speak is no more shocking than the discovery that politicians like to give speeches, sports stars talk in clichés and priests tend to sermonize.

(Indeed, ESPNW is doing some of the most interesting and important work in sports journalism right now: look no further than its recent profile of Christy Mack, an adult film star who was brutally assaulted by her boyfriend, a mixed martial arts fighter.)

That's right: On average, those sporting scrubs and stethoscopes bring home fatter paychecks than those donning suits and ties, according to the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics» Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates survey.

That's how the U.S. mounted a sprawling corruption probe of FIFA, the organizing body for the world's most popular sport, eventually ensnaring more than 40 people, including soccer officials and sports - marketing businessmen.

There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.

Admirers of the tradition see the centuries — old spectacle of bullfighting as more of an art than a sport.

• The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will seek to stop the merger of DraftKings and FanDuel, because the combined company would control more than 90 % of the U.S. market for paid daily fantasy sports contests.

Fanatics, a sports technology startup with a unicorn valuation of more than $ 3 billion.

That gives people the opportunity to race at the highest level of the sport, and we don't want to lose that, but when you add new top teams... making sure that you have an equally attractive environment for pro-am independent teams is a challenge we're up to — but it's easier said than done.

While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently than men do, with women investing more in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games than in the actual results.

NBC has you covered in the form of a partnership with Samsung that will allow users of the NBC Sports app, who also have a Samsung Gear VR as well as a Samsung Galaxy smartphone, to access more than 100 hours of virtual reality programming.

Ferrari builds three types of cars: sports cars, Grand Touring or «GT» cars, and of course rare and exotic hypercars, such as the current LaFerrari, which sells for more than a million bucks.

A little more than a third of those planning to travel report sporting a fanny pack or neck wallet «at all times» while vacationing, and 3.4 percent say they have traveled with their own safety deposit box, according to the survey.

Together they command more than two - thirds of Australia «s A$ 3.5 billion sports wagering market, but online - only players are growing their share, according to a March report from researcher IBIS World.

Hundreds of gold medals are awarded during every Olympic games, and it's inevitable that some athletes — who, more often than not, won't get rich from their sport — wind up selling them.

In a sport where every fraction of a second saved can mean millions of dollars earned, we meet the people in the pits who feel this pressure more than anyone else.

To Foster's point, Affliction, whose other staffers also sport huge muscles and acres of scar tissue, has seen average annual growth of more than 300 percent in the past two years.

More than just a marketing deal, it gives DraftKings access to extensive MLB video content, letting fantasy players do their research on site instead of having to click away to sports news sites or broadcast television.

The FSTA is also disappointed that the New York Attorney General has chosen the path of hurried litigation after years of watching daily fantasy sports thrive and entertain in New York rather than pursuing the path of common sense regulation or legislation as Massachusetts, Illinois and Florida have done.

As an underwear - clad brass band and two dozen strippers march through the office, the camera lingers on the woman a beat or two longer than is comfortable — a few loose wisps of hair emerging from her patchy scalp, a fake smile plastered across her face as she tries to prove she's a good sport.

Hockey Hockey, which means «more expensive than a CRV,» is a winter sport followed obsessively by the combined populations of Canada and the University of Minnesota.

Last year, a paper in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise summarized a study that followed a group of more than 17,000 Canadians over 12 years.

UK - based Sky, with more than 20 million customers for its sports, entertainment and news channels across Europe, is at the centre of a three - way battle for control...

Nowhere is the marketing assault more apparent than in the company's hometown of Boston, where there is a massive «DraftKings Fantasy Sports Zone» at Gillette Stadium (New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft is an investor, too).

After more than 80 rounds of matching and guessing faces to occupations, the researchers found that the participants were able to accurately pick out the business, military and sports leaders more consistently than if they were guessing by chance.

UK - based Sky, with more than 20 million customers for its sports, entertainment and news channels across Europe, is at the centre of a three - way battle for control between Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox, Walt Disney and Comcast and their veteran bosses.

Freeman said the risk of money laundering «is far greater in the vast, unregulated, illegal sports betting market than in the highly regulated, legal gaming industry.

The late Ted Rogers» family has seen the value of its stake in Rogers Communications go up more than 15 % in the past year, a 12 - month stretch that included the company going halves with bitter rival Bell Media to buy a 75 % stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $ 1.07 billion.

Though the products have since gone mainstream (Target and Best Buy each accounted for more than 10 percent of Skullcandy's net sales in 2009, according to the S - 1), the focus remains on the alternative sports market.

The New York Giants» decision to bench Eli Manning in favor of Geno Smith for Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders is being met with harsh criticism, and no critic is louder or in possession of a larger megaphone than long - time New York sports talk radio host Mike Francesa.

When you think of testosterone, it's easy to focus on sports and competition, but testosterone's importance covers much more than athletics.

Other than Nike however, which was about flat in early trading, shares of almost every major sports apparel company and retailer were in retreat.

Dedicated fans of the sport sometimes run more than 100 miles across some of the world's toughest terrain over multiple days.

Twitter says it wants to do more NFL - style deals — and it points out that it aired more than 800 hours of live - streaming content in the first quarter of this year, including sports, news and entertainment.

She is one of two African - American women on the U.S. swim team (there has never been more than one at past Games) and hopes to use her success to bring more minorities into the sport.

Profits at ESPN will be squeezed even further because the network's costs have increased so much, he says — it will pay more than $ 6 billion this year for the rights to future sporting events, and the cost of locking up NBA games alone have tripled.

Jack Groetzinger and Russ D'Souza, both avid concertgoers and sports enthusiasts, were fed up with the unpredictability of the secondary ticket market — reseller pricing that can swing from significantly higher than face value to cut - rate, depending on an event's popularity.

Because of improvements in technology, sports coverage is more extensive than ever before.

More than a decade after leaving baseball, Cal Ripken serves as one of the best models for how to build a career after professional sports.

If the focus on sports intrigues you but you're definitely more of a fan than a hands - on participant, the QuickBooks blog's alternate idea might be for you.

On Watch, which Facebook began testing earlier this month, more than 2 billion users can see hundreds of shows from the likes of Vox, Buzzfeed, Discovery Communications (disca), Walt Disney's (dis) ABC as well as live sports like Major League Baseball.