Salon
Years ago, just about every organization intent on doing good was a nonprofit. Today, hybrid outfits blend the traditional profit-seeking goals of companies with a social purpose intended to benefit society. Also known as for-profit social enterprises and public-benefit corporations, they can be hard to spot.
NYSportsJournalism.com
From Aug. 25 to 27, a.k.a. Players Weekend, baseball picks up on its roots as a breeding ground for great nicknames (think "Babe" and "Joltin' Joe"). Now the jerseys will have a modern spin with players like the L.A. Dodgers' Justin Turner wearing "RedTurn2." All in the name of charity, of course.
Washington Post
New restaurants are using a new app called Surkus to pay people to line up outside their shops to draw the uninitiated. It's called "crowd casting" and it goes so far as to geolocate the participants and score them on their reputations.
The New York Times
Author Fawn Weaver not only unearthed the story behind the slave who taught Jack Daniels to distill whiskey, she also has introduced Uncle Nearest 1856, a whiskey produced by another Tennessee distillery. Jack Daniel Distillery is so far taking this in stride.
Washington Post
The former president tweeted a photo of himself smiling at four children of different races. It was retweeted more than 1.1 million times and liked 2.723 million times as of Tuesday evening. The message became the most liked tweet of all time, surpassing Ariana Grande's response to the deadly terrorist attack after her concert in Manchester.
M Live
A Hindu leader upset that some Kellogg Co. products contain beef but do not explicitly say that on the label is calling for the resignation of Kellogg's CEO and a recall. Hindu statesman and president of Universal Society of Hinduism Rajan Zed said Hindus are shocked to learn some of the cereals and other products they had been eating for years contain beef, despite there being no mention of beef in the products' ingredients.
USA Today
Dick's Sporting Goods warned that sales are expected to fall despite its plans to increase discounts, compounding concerns about its emphasis on stores at a time when more customers are shopping online. As other sporting goods chains have gone out of business, Dick's had been hoping to benefit from the industry consolidation.
Forbes
Major League Soccer expansion club Los Angeles Football Club has signed a deal with Heineken, which has agreed to a multi-year partnership to be the team's beer sponsor. Heineken is a league-level sponsor of MLS, as well as an individual team sponsor with eight other MLS clubs, including New York City FC, Orlando City SC and D.C. United.
The Drum
Pennzoil is taking on the fastest production car ever made, the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, in its latest product demonstration meets cinematic car film, "Exorcising the Demon." Shot on the streets of Pittsburgh, the next evolution of Pennzoil Films continues following an elusive driver carrying out a mission of tracking and locating the Demon before returning it to its rightful owner.
The New York Times
President Trump hit back at the executives who have stepped down from his advisory council. He said that the executives were "not taking their jobs seriously" and suggested they had stepped down from his manufacturing advisory council because they were making products overseas. The American Alliance for Manufacturing and the AFL-CIO joined Merck, Intel and Under Armour, all who resigned from an advisory council.