The world’s best snowboarders came together in Vail, Colorado from March 3-8, 2014, to partake in the longest running, premier snowboarding event, the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships presented by MINI. Kelly Clark (USA) and Taylor Gold (USA) became 2014 halfpipe champions and went away $45,000 dollars at the 32nd annual Burton US Open Snowboarding […]
Big news today, March 6, 2014 from Street League Skateboarding (SLS) regarding their upcoming season and partnership with Fox Sports 1. Check the video. Here’s the news: FOX Sports and Street League Skateboarding (SLS) are proud to announce a new multi-year partnership that includes live broadcasts of the world’s premier skateboarding contest series on […]
Story and Photos by Tom Wallace and Kathleen Gasperini One of the strongest shows coming out of the Vegas fashion trade shows earlier this month was Agenda, which returned to Vegas for the second time February 17-19, 2014, as part of Modern Assembly (including Liberty Fairs and (capsule)), and challenging the status quo of MAGIC’s […]
Spending pattern changes among youth culture are redefining the marketplace within fashion, from new influences in brand preferences, to changes in what fits into the lifestyle of a tech-savvy marketplace. Greater access to information and fast-paced changes in communication and social networking patterns have also created new platforms for trends in retail and fashion. When […]
On Thursday, February 20, 2014, the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd announced Samsung’s title sponsorship of the ASP World Championship Tour. Here’s more from the ASP announcement: “From the beginning, our goal has been to elevate the platform of this tremendous sport through top-of-class media and sponsor partnerships,” Paul Speaker, […]
Women’s surfing just got a boost for 2014 with the announcement from the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) that an event in Maui has been added as the final stop on the 2014 ASP Women’s World Championship Tour (WCT). The event will be hosted in the world-famous Honolua Bay from November 24 through December 6, […]
The gap in talent between the women’s U.S. snowboarding team at the Sochi Olympics and the rest of the field (other than Torah Bright from Australia) has once again been proven. Today, February 12, 2014, Kaitlyn Farrington won the gold, two-time gold medalist Kelly Clark claimed the bronze, and Hannah Teter came in 4th. Only […]
By now, the world’s heard that Shaun White did not three-peat his gold medal legacy in the Olympic halfpipe event. And for the first time, the men’s Team USA did not medal in the pipe. But what is going down in snowboarding from the Sochi 2014 Olympics is an illustration of how the sports changing, […]
On February 7, 2014, GoPro, Inc. announced that it had plans to go public. The rules for filing for a confidential IPO under the JOBS Act means that a company must have less than a $1 billion in sales. So, apparently they are not quite a $1 billion company yet, but they have done extremely […]
The struggles rippling through fashion retail are resulting in many changes for brands, especially those in action sports, denim, and sportswear. Zumiez’s January financial reports released February 5, 2014 record a net sales decrease of 24.3% to $38.1 million from $50.3 million last year within the same five week period. Comparable store sales are down […]