- Grant, tell us a little about how Naturade inspired you and why you wanted to get involved with the company. When did you first get involved?
- Grant, tell us a little about how Naturade inspired you and why you wanted to get involved with the company. When did you first get involved?
- Naturade continues to grow, and their products are now available in Target and Costco, talk a little about watching the brand expand and find its way to new consumers. How important is it for a company to get exposure through these large companies?
- Naturade is one of the only Black-owned healthy-living brands around. How important is it to see the company have great success in a space that hasn’t seen many Black-owned businesses thrive?
- Naturade’s products have received excellent reviews, but at the core, the company is mission-driven, aimed at addressing diet-related illness. Can you talk a little about that mission and the type of impact it can have?
BACKGROUND ON NATURADE
Naturade is well known for its commitment to improving the health and well-being of consumers with innovative, natural products since 1926.
Naturade is a Black-owned company purchased by Kareem Cook and Claude Tellis in 2012.
The mission-driven company has gained the attention and interest of high-profile investors including Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Grant Hill.
Naturade pioneered the introduction of soy protein powders in the 1950s and over the years, Naturade has manufactured and distributed a variety of health-related products including vitamins, nutritional supplements and beauty care products.
The plant-based weight loss high protein shake is available at 40 Costco Wholesale Clubs, Target, Amazon, and coming soon Whole Foods.
Naturade is the first Black-owned company in the plant-based nutrition category to be sold in Costco. The company is committed to providing everyone access to quality food regardless of income, location and race.
Naturade, the maker of the popular VeganSmart brand, has taken its popular formula and launched extensions in the plant-based nutrition space.
Naturade also offers a full line of products for children’s health, immune health, meal replacements, weight loss and dieting, and weight gain on its website, Naturade.com.
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Los Angeles Rams Equipment Director Excerpt
“This year is kind of unique, we're not able to see our incoming guys,” says the Rams’ Equipment Director Brendan Burger. "XTECH developed a database digitally which is based on the position of a player, the size of the person, the style of play, and they can narrow it down to exactly the right fit. I have full confidence in them that if they have enough of the data, they can make anything.
“So I got with them and had a set of pads made based on the data from their questionnaire for our players. And we had some guys from colleges who wore the pads, like (linebacker) Terrell Lewis from Alabama, and (receiver) Van Jefferson from Florida.”
“The data is a tremendous help to us now,” Burger adds. "By the time we see these rookies, to get them a custom pad would be a really tight turnaround.
“But it's already done.”
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The Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is just days away, and ticket prices are higher than for any other Super Bowl in over a decade.
According to the ticket exchange site StubHub, last year’s Super Bowl in Miami was the most expensive in the past 10 years, and this year’s game is even more expensive. The average price of a ticket sold this year is $7,589, compared with $6,410 this time last year, an 18% increase.
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Raymond James stadium in Florida will only admit 22,000 fans, or about one-third of capacity. Of those 22,000 fans, 7,500 will receive free tickets that have been dedicated to front-line health workers.
StubHub told MarketWatch that ticket prices could jump again in the days before the game.
“There is also a chance that perhaps prices could climb back up as traveling buyers purchase their tickets in the next 48 hours and local Tampa buyers start purchasing. This is such a unique event this year –– more so than ever –– with such an intimate audience that we strongly suggest fans buy sooner than later before ticket supply diminishes.”
C- MATRESS MACK BETTING NEARLY 3.5M ON BUCS AND THE POINTS... (IS SELLING MATTRESSES THAT LUCRATIVE??)
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.@AdamSchefterCousins signed an extension in 2020 that pays $31M in 2021 and a whopping $45M in 2022. Everything in his 2021 season is guaranteed, including a $10M signing bonus and $21M in base salary. In 2022, Cousins’ $35M in base salary is currently all non-guaranteed money. That money guarantees on March 19, 2021—the third day of the new league year.
Because it’s guaranteed salary, that money won’t stay with the Vikings in the event of a trade. But because it is guaranteed, whichever team has Cousins—Vikings or otherwise—won’t be able to cut him over the next two years of his deal. Essentially, a team trading for Cousins would be on the hook for $21M this season and $35M next season—no two ways about that.
The trade will remain available for the Vikings in both seasons, however. By trading Cousins this year, they would save $11M on this year’s cap and open up $45M in space on next year’s cap—next year, they would save $35M in 2022 space. Cap space is at a premium in Minnesota, as they’re currently sitting $15M over the cap line for the 2021 season. Cousins could provide needed relief.
Jets trade: No. 2 overall, No. 23 overall, Quinnen Williams, Sam Darnold, 2022 third-roundeTexans trade: Deshaun Wat
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49ERS - 6TH BEST ODDS, 4TH IN NFC....
Odds to Win Super Bowl LVI (2022)
Kansas City Chiefs 5/1
Buffalo Bills 12/1
Green Bay Packers 12/1
Los Angeles Rams 12/1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 12/1
San Francisco 49ers 14/1
Baltimore Ravens 20/1
Cleveland Browns 20/1
Miami Dolphins 20/1
Seattle Seahawks 20/1
Dallas Cowboys 22/1
Los Angeles Chargers 22/1
New England Patriots 25/1
New Orleans Saints 25/1
Tennessee Titans 28/1
Arizona Cardinals 33/1
Indianapolis Colts 33/1
Pittsburgh Steelers 33/1
Philadelphia Eagles 40/1
Atlanta Falcons 50/1
Carolina Panthers 50/1
Chicago Bears 50/1
Houston Texans 50/1
Las Vegas Raiders 50/1
Minnesota Vikings 50/1
New York Giants 66/1
Washington Football Team 66/1
Cincinnati Bengals 75/1
Denver Broncos 75/1
Detroit Lions 75/1
Jacksonville Jaguars 75/1
New York Jets 75/
Salary cap
The NFL and NFLPA began preliminary negotiations last month on the 2021 salary cap. Some team officials believe (and surely hope) the cap will ultimately land closer to $185 million per club -- if not a little higher -- than the $175 million minimum the sides agreed to last summer as they braced for empty and mostly empty stadiums.
The league didn't provide clubs with its annual cap projection at the delayed labor seminar Tuesday, nor has it committed to exactly how to spread the impact of an unprecedented multibillion-dollar revenue shortfall in 2020 over the next few years. (Each year's cap is based on revenue projections for the following season, as well as a "true-up" from the prior year projection. Had the sides not agreed to the $175 million floor for 2021 as part of an overall package on COVID-related economic matters, spreading this year's shortfall into future years, the cap would have plummeted much further from this season's $198.2 million per club.)
Chiefs owner Clark Hunt told reporters this week the final number may not be set until "hours before the start of the league year" March 17. More realistically, teams may find out the number just days before the free-agent negotiating period begins March 15, with the league and union taking all the time possible to assess the climate and budget for the impact of at least one new media deal, which must be finalized before the NFL makes the expected move to a 17-game regular season in 2021.
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ALL-STAR VOTING —
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1357388961866543107?s=21
WOULD WARRIORS MOVE WISEMAN??? (IN A BEAL DEAL)
Beal is 27. He’s presumably intent on contending in his prime. The Wizards’ clearest path back to relevancy is a committed rebuild. That’s a natural timeline clash. Whether the Wizards ignore or accept that — dealing Beal when his value is highest for a package that’d jumpstart a rebuild — is the largest question looming over that franchise.
But let’s discuss another franchise on the periphery of the simmering Beal noise — the Warriors. If Beal is made available in the coming months, the Warriors have two tentpole assets for an extended rebuild: James Wiseman and Minnesota’s top-three protected 2021 first-round pick, which transfers to a 2022 unprotected pick if not conveyed this year.
It shouldn’t be too difficult to pitch Washington on daydreams of a Wiseman, Jonathan Kuminga, Cade Cunningham (with their own 2021 pick) type core growing together deep into the 2020s. Three high-lottery swings is the most organic way to slow-cook an NBA contender.
I don’t see how the Warriors get Beal without putting both pick and player on the table. The return for other top-30 talents has been too massive lately, the expected Beal market too robust. If all it takes is just Andrew Wiggins’ contract and a basket of picks, highlighted by the Minnesota gem, sure. But Wiseman is the allure. He’s the ticket to get in the room, just like Michael Porter Jr. would be for the Nuggets.
Which is what this debate boils down to from a Warriors perspective: Your belief in whether they should mortgage a strong bridge to the future for a better immediate is probably in line with your belief in Wiseman’s potential. If you think he’s only going to become an average starting center, the risk is worth it. If you think he has a realistic chance to emerge into a decade-long All-NBA force, then — as Ethan Strauss said on our recent podcast on the topic — it’s a deal that has the potential to haunt you for a decade. In both pre- and post-draft conversations, I got and get the authentic sense that those who pull the levers for the Warriors are staunch long-term Wiseman believers.
Beal would make the Warriors better than a 20-year-old Wiseman next season. His positional fit is wonkier. Beal overlaps with the returning Klay Thompson. Losing Wiseman strips you of your starting center. The Warriors would be leaning into extreme small-ball. But Beal is 30 points nightly on efficient shooting splits and should be able to guard the perimeter at a winning level if surrounded well. You could use the mid-level exception on a placeholder center. That’s a temporary improvement. Conservatively, it’d probably bump the Warriors’ chances of winning the 2022 title by 20 percent or so.
When senior officials from the Biden administration spoke with Major League Baseball last week, the Players Association did not wish to be part of the conversation, believing it would be pressured into delaying the season.
The union, by scheduling its own discussion with the same officials for a later date, avoided hearing what the government representatives suggested to MLB, according to sources: a one-month delay, with the idea of getting players vaccinated in time to start the season.
The delay will not take place, unless COVID-19 dictates otherwise. The union Monday rejected a proposal from the league to shorten the season to 154 games and pay them for 162, saying the deal was not enough of an improvement over its current situation under the sport’s collective bargaining agreement.
The players have been consistent in their desire for spring training and the regular season to begin on time, citing their largely successful adherence to health and safety protocols during the shortened 60-game season in 2020. Other professional sports leagues are playing through the pandemic, some with fans in attendance. MLB, however, said in its statement Monday that a delay would minimize the disruptions “that currently face all sports.”
The government officials, according to sources, told MLB their confidence in players getting vaccinated before a delayed opening stemmed from the expected introduction of the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Biden administration’s top medical adviser, said Wednesday that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine could be authorized for emergency use “within a week or so.”
The league did not share with the union details from their meeting with the government but conveyed them to team presidents on a call Wednesday. In the union’s view, further discussion about a delay is no longer relevant or constructive. The league said in a statement Monday it is moving forward and instructing clubs to report for an on-time start to spring training and the regular season, subject to reaching an agreement with the union on health and safety protocols. The parties continue to discuss the protocols, sources say.
There is no guarantee a delay of one month would be enough to improve the players’ chances of staying safe or ensure they would get the vaccine. But many team employees, at the executive level and below, are nervous about reporting in two weeks to Florida and Arizona, where the rates of infection are declining but remain high. Those employees express particular concern for the safety of older coaches, managers, umpires and staffers who are more vulnerable to COVID-19.
For now, however, all systems are go. Even though the government recommended against it.
RIGHT FIELDERS
- Mookie Betts, LAD (Last year: 1)
- Juan Soto, WSH (LF No. 1)
- Ronald Acuña Jr., ATL (4)
- Aaron Judge, NYY (3)
- Bryce Harper, PHI (6)
- Mike Yastrzemski, SF (Not ranked)
- Michael Conforto, NYM (9)
- Joey Gallo, TEX (8)
- Charlie Blackmon, COL (NR)
- Jorge Soler, KC (7)
SECOND BASEMEN
- DJ LeMahieu, NYY (Last year: 2)
- Jeff McNeil, NYM (3B No. 5)
- Ketel Marte, ARI (1)
- Brandon Lowe, TB (5)
- Cavan Biggio, TOR (8)
- Jake Cronenworth, SD (Not ranked)
- Donovan Solano, SF (NR)
- Chris Taylor, LAD (NR)
- Jose Altuve, HOU (3)
- Ozzie Albies, ATL (4)
THIRD BASEMEN
- Anthony Rendon, LAA (Last year: 2)
- Alex Bregman, HOU (1)
- Nolan Arenado, STL (3)
- José Ramírez, CLE (9)
- Manny Machado, SD (10)
- Justin Turner, free agent (7)
- Matt Chapman, OAK (4)
- Josh Donaldson, MIN (6)
- Gio Urshela, NYY (Not ranked)
- Eugenio Suárez, CIN (8)
CATCHERS
- J.T. Realmuto, PHI (Last year: 2)
- Yasmani Grandal, CWS (1)
- Will Smith, LAD (Not ranked)
- Willson Contreras, CHC (3)
- Sean Murphy, OAK (NR)
- Austin Nola, SD (NR)
- Salvador Perez, KC (NR)
- Travis d'Arnaud, ATL (NR)
- Mitch Garver, MIN (4)
- James McCann, NYM (NR
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