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Man turns $100M sports memorabilia collection into new stock market

[NY POST, Getty Images] Over the last  seven decades, Joel Platt has acquired one of the world’s great sports memorabilia collections. The 82-year-old’s high-security vaults in Florida contain more than a million items — ranging from Jackie Robinson’s bat to Wilt Chamberlain’s high school uniform to the recently deceased Hank Aaron’s game-used hat. Claiming […]

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Kevin Durant will quarantine, miss four games over seven days after exposure to COVID-19, per report

[CBS Sports] Kevin Durant will need to quarantine for seven days after the NBA’s contact tracing initiative revealed that he has been exposed to COVID-19, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Durant already had COVID-19 early in the outbreak. He has tested negative and still has antibodies according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, but […]

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Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. Fight’s 1.6M-Plus PPV Buys Generated More Than $80M

[Bleacher Report, AP] Last month’s exhibition fight between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. was a rousing success, as it drew well over one million pay-per-view buys and tens of millions of dollars in revenue. According to Josh Peter of USA Today, Tyson’s Legends Only League, which promoted the event, reported that it generated more than […]

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Tom Brady’s company TB12 received more than $960,000 PPP loan

[CNBC, The Boston Globe] NFL quarterback Tom Brady’s sports performance and nutrition company received a Paycheck Protection Program loan of $960,855 from the federal government, according to data released by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Brady agreed to a two-year $50 million deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in March. More than 500 […]

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