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Silicon Valley food
fromTasting Table
1 week ago

This 1950s Burger Chain Peaked With Over 300 Locations, So What Happened? - Tasting Table

Gino Marchetti combined NFL stardom, civil rights defiance, and World War II service with hands-on ownership of Gino's Hamburgers, later sold and converted.
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Before Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones, there was Ted Turner, the larger-than-life billionaire owner who changed sports | Fortune

He effectively transformed the Braves into a team with a national reach and set the table for ways that local teams have now gained more of a national footprint. With a burgeoning fanbase that stretched far beyond the South, the Braves turned into a World Series mainstay during the 1990s, and Turner finally hoisted the Commissioner's Trophy in 1995.
Atlanta Braves
Women in technology
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Unrivaled wants to change women's basketball. Its commissioner explains how

Unrivaled, a player-built women's basketball league, launches amid record-breaking WNBA viewership and surging brand investment, capitalizing on accelerating momentum in women's sports.
Business
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 months ago

Giorgio Armani, Stanley Fischer among business leaders who died in 2025

Several prominent business and finance figures, including Virginia McCaskey, Horst Paulmann, Lee Shau-Kee and George Foreman, died in 2025.
Startup companies
fromwww.mercurynews.com
5 months ago

Silicon Valley meets the court: Tech trio powering padel's rise in Bay Area

Three former tech professionals founded Park Padel to build a local padel community, opening courts in San Francisco and planning West Coast expansion.
Bayern Munich
fromFC Bayern
7 months ago

Van Buyten on Belgian football: Performance & passion | FC Bayern

Daniel van Buyten transitioned from Bayern defender to businessman, investor and player agent while preserving discipline, ambition and active family involvement.
Soccer (FIFA)
fromBusiness Insider
8 months ago

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce join an elite club of 10 celebrity power couples

David and Victoria Beckham have built a combined $673 million empire through sports, fashion, and branded ventures over 26 years of marriage and four children.
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