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Best Buy fired Enis Sujack, the whistleblower who went public after exposing the manager’s ban on Christian symbols at the workplace. Earlier this month O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) dropped a story featuring a whistleblower from inside Best Buy who released screenshots of a training program. A Citizen Journalist has revealed Best Buy is partnering with McKinsey & Company on a Management Training Program. The program is not open to white applicants. “Candidates must meet the [racial] requirements below” ... The program is only for employees who “identify as Black, Latino, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander.” ... DISCRIMINATION: A Citizen Journalist...

Outdoor apparel giant Sports Authority has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and the retail chain could close all or most of its 450 stores nationwide as it struggles to pay off a reported $1 billion debt. Sports Authority is “pursuing a sale of some or all of the business,” a company statement said. “We have received initial expressions of interest from a number of potential buyers, and we are optimistic about the results of the sale process.” Founded in 1928, the athletic apparel retailer was once the largest sporting goods chain in America. In the years after its 2006...

Why Sports Authority is throwing in the towel and closing all of its stores When struggling retailer Sports Authority filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month in the face of more than $1 billion in debt, the company indicated that it had two options going forward. One of those was to shed underperforming stores and emerge from bankruptcy as an intact, but pared-down company. The other was to sell everything and cease operating. On Tuesday, the company appeared to choose the latter. . . . “With the minimum wage going up to $15 an hour and more people turning to...

The recent bankruptcy filing by Sports Authority has raised questions about possibly renaming the stadium the Broncos play in, and a marijuana company is one such interested buyer. Native Roots is one of Colorado's largest dispensaries. It expanded from one to 14 stores over the last year. The marijuana dispensary chain said they are fully ready to make a multi-million dollar commitment if the contract between Sports Authority Field at Mile High and Sports Authority ever ends. . . They also acknowledged the poor timing of announcing the news on April Fools' Day, but insisted that they are serious about...

Following weeks of fertile speculation whether it will or won't file for bankruptcy, this morning Colorado-based Sports Authority, whose name graces the home stadium to the Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos, put all doubts to rest when it filed Chapter 11 in Delaware bankruptcy court (Case 16-10527) listing $500,000-$1 Bn in assets and between $1 and 10 billion in liabilities in its bankruptcy filing, adding that it will close as many as 140 of its 463 locations. As part of its bankruptcy process, the bankrupt retailer reported that it has access to a $595 million in debtor in possession...

Sports Authority employees were told last week that the big box chain is closing its Texas stores. ... Store employees in Dallas Wednesday said they weren’t sure when stores will close. A lot of merchandise is on clearance. But the staff was also packing up goods into boxes. A large truck arrived to the Caruth Plaza store today around lunchtime to take away merchandise. ... The Denver Post is reporting that three stores are closing in its market and quoted a source saying there are a total of 140 stores closing.

TAMPA - When the Buccaneers instituted a policy requiring all fans to be patted down for weapons before entering Raymond James Stadium, the American Civil Liberties Union vowed to file suit. Thursday, they followed up on that threat. A lawsuit, filed on behalf of a season ticket holder, seeks to immediately stop officials from conducting what the ACLU calls the "suspicionless" pat-down searches. According to the ACLU, fan Gordon Johnston inquired about canceling his season tickets after he learned that the searches would be implemented. But the team would not refund the nearly $900 for his tickets. Now, Johnson and...

A White Plains councilman has joined the national debate over gun control after seeing a movie where two of the students injured in the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School succeed in persuading a retail giant to stop selling the type of bullets used in the killing. The scene is captured in "Bowling for Columbine," Michael Moore's satiric documentary about the U.S. culture of violence. In the movie, the students — one paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, the other with a bullet still lodged inside him — travel with Moore from Littleton, Colo., to the Troy, Mich., headquarters of...