Connect with us
https://yoursportsnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/call-to-1.png

Sports

Academy Sports raises FY25 EPS guidance based on favorable tariff outlook

Shares of Academy Sports and Outdoors (NASDAQ:ASO) are bouncing back and setting the stock up to trade in the green for a sixth straight day as the company’s effective efforts to mitigate import tariffs offset below consensus results for the first quarter  and led the company to raise its FY25 adjusted profit guidance. The sporting […]

Published

on

Academy Sports raises FY25 EPS guidance based on favorable tariff outlook

Shares of Academy Sports and Outdoors (NASDAQ:ASO) are bouncing back and setting the stock up to trade in the green for a sixth straight day as the company’s effective efforts to mitigate import tariffs offset below consensus results for the first quarter  and led the company to raise its FY25 adjusted profit guidance.

The sporting goods and outdoor recreational retailer issued guidance based on two tariff scenarios: low end assumes 145% reciprocal tariffs on China; high end assumes 10% tariffs for all other countries, including China.

“We are updating our fiscal 2025 guidance range to account for a wider range of scenarios as we move forward in this uncertain demand environment. We remain confident in our strategic initiatives and their progress to date, which has allowed us to maintain the high end of our guidance as we drive toward positive comps,” Academy Sports CFO Carl Ford said.

Assuming the low-end scenario, the company raised its projection for an adjusted profit of $6.25 per share from $6.20 initially, beating the $5.97 consensus estimate.

This updated forecast takes into account the company’s reduced cost exposure to ~9% of total COGS directly related to China for its private label business and plans to further reduce the cost exposure to ~6% by the end of FY25.

To further limit its tariff exposure and minimize the impact on its customers, the company has pulled forward domestic inventory receipts to maintain “maximum flexibility to the evolving landscape,” partnered with suppliers to reduce costs, shifted production out of China, reduced FY25 capex, and aligned expenses with the current composition of inventory.

For the reported quarter, sales were down 0.7% to a below consensus $1.35B, contributing to an adjusted profit of $0.76 per share, down from $1.08 a year ago and $0.13 less than expected. Comparable sales were down 3.7% while ecommerce sales increased 10.2%.

Shares last traded nearly 4% higher into Tuesday’s open.

Continue Reading
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Sports

New medal for Montenegrin water polo

The U16 water polo team of Montenegro won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Istanbul. In the match for third place, the young “sharks” dominantly defeated Croatia – 12:7 (4:2, 3:2, 2:1, 3:2). The question of the winner was never raised, because our team showed that it was better from the first attack. […]

Published

on


The U16 water polo team of Montenegro won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Istanbul.

In the match for third place, the young “sharks” dominantly defeated Croatia – 12:7 (4:2, 3:2, 2:1, 3:2).

The question of the winner was never raised, because our team showed that it was better from the first attack.

Great goalkeeper Jakša Milanović enchanted the net, his saves motivated his teammates, so Montenegro took a 4:1 lead at the end of the first quarter and did not let go of the secure lead until the end.

Danilo Roganović and Andrej Durutović scored three goals each, Luka Cerović scored two, and Luka Popović, Matija Franeta, Petar Nikolić and Luka Dragović scored one each.

The bronze medal from Istanbul is the 13th medal won by our junior teams at major competitions since 2006.


News





Link

Continue Reading

Sports

Lainey Brumfield hired as Southwest Volleyball Assistant Coach

SUMMIT, Miss.(SWCC Athletics)—Former William Carey Volleyball player Lainey Brumfield has been hired as the Southwest Volleyball Assistant Coach. She will be working with head coach Chris Laird in the sport’s first season back on campus since the early 1970’s. Brumfield is no stranger to the sport bringing nearly a decade of experience to Summit. The […]

Published

on


SUMMIT, Miss.(SWCC Athletics)—Former William Carey Volleyball player Lainey Brumfield has been hired as the Southwest Volleyball Assistant Coach. She will be working with head coach Chris Laird in the sport’s first season back on campus since the early 1970’s.

Brumfield is no stranger to the sport bringing nearly a decade of experience to Summit. The goal of being a coach in the college ranks is one that she has had on her radar for multiple years.

“It’s a big change for my life,” she said. “I’ve been wanting to be a collegiate coach for years now.”

The volleyball journey started for Brumfield, a native of Foxworth and an alum of West Marion High School, when she started playing the sport in middle school. “I’ve been playing for eight years now,” she said. “When I was a sophomore in high school I tried out for a club team in Hattiesburg. Eventually I moved on to play for Matrix down on the Coast. The club years were my sophomore, junior and senior years in high school.”

During that time, Brumfield not only worked on her game but also met someone who would play a big role in her career.

“I actually met the coach that influenced me the most, Kelly Pitre,” she said. “She was my biggest influence as a coach. Someone I looked up to and who I wanted to be as a coach. She also helped me get in contact with a few colleges. Moving into my senior year I got an offer from (William) Carey to go play. It felt like home for me. I ended up going there playing indoor and beach.”

The want to coach for Brumfield came during her senior year in high school and by the next year, she was coaching club ball, a job she held throughout for the next two years before spending the 2024 season at Petal Middle School.

Brumfield feels like her age and being able to relate more with the girls on the team is a big advantage for her.

“I feel like am very mature for my age,” she said. “I feel like with that I won’t get into a friendship with the girls and I’ll keep it professional but also I’ll be able to relate their current life events that they are going through because college can be a big change.”

Being a former student athlete herself, she understands the importance of academics will help implement it on the team.

“At the end of the day you are a student athlete and the student has to come first before the athletics,” she said. “Volleyball will not last forever. You have to have your degree to go further into life and into your future job. My goal is to make these girls ready for their future job and life.”

Coach Laird said that he is very happy to bring Brumfield on board adding that with her experience, she can be a huge help in pushing the renewed program it in the right direction.

“It is great that there is someone who played on the collegiate level both indoor and outdoor,” he said. “The thing that I love about Lainey is that she is super organized and she will relate well with our players. She has already been in the club season and realizes the importance of reaching out to club coaches as well as high school coaches to improve our recruiting area.

He also says that she brings both lead-by-example and vocal leadership qualities. “We will sit down and and discuss what the program will look like, where it needs to go and then after that, I expect her to be vocal on the coaching staff as well as being on the court to demo some stuff.”  

See a typo? Report it here.





Link

Continue Reading

Sports

Tucker Carlson Completely Misses Point On Transgender Athletes In Women's Sports

During a speech at a Turning Point USA event over the weekend, conservative political pundit Tucker Carlson spoke dismissively about the issue of transgender athletes – biological men – competing in women’s sports in light of bigger problems facing the country.  The breadth of Carlson’s commentary is that while men competing in women’s sports is […]

Published

on

Tucker Carlson Completely Misses Point On Transgender Athletes In Women's Sports


During a speech at a Turning Point USA event over the weekend, conservative political pundit Tucker Carlson spoke dismissively about the issue of transgender athletes – biological men – competing in women’s sports in light of bigger problems facing the country. 

The breadth of Carlson’s commentary is that while men competing in women’s sports is wrong, it’s not an important issue. In his estimation, Republicans and conservatives are exaggerating their victories on the matter and losing focus on bigger problems in the United States. 

“You spend all day telling me that it’s so important that boys not play on girls’ soccer teams or whatever. I agree. I hate the tranny stuff,” Carlson said. “But, I don’t know, it kind of feels like you’re feeding me appetizers. At some point, I want to look around and see a better country.”  

After a quick aside to suggest that the United States should employ the military to stop drugs from coming into the country, he circled back to the transgender issue. 

“Why are my cities disgusting? I don’t even want to go there. It smells like weed and halal food. And you’re lecturing me about how it’s a great moral victory that I kicked the boys off the girls’ soccer team,” Carlson said. “Good. I’m so glad. But let’s do the real stuff like making New York [City] livable.”

Here’s Carlson’s full rant: 

I understand where Carlson is coming from. I really do. At the end of the day, boys and men in girls’ and women’s sports don’t affect as many Americans as, say, the opiod crisis or rampant homelessness. Anyone who has spent time in the biggest cities in the country – New York and Los Angeles – understands this. 

Transgender Athletes Are A Symptom Of A Larger Issue

The transgender athlete debate – which is an adjunct of the Democrats’ insistence on unwavering support for gender ideology – represents a far deeper cultural issue.

The essential platform of the modern Democratic Party in America boils down to a simple solution for everything: compassion. Democrats and their left-wing allies believe that compassion should trump everything else when it comes to policy. 

But Democrats don’t actually understand the word compassion. 

They believe that the compassionate response to homeless people – nearly all of whom are helplessly addicted to drugs or suffering from intense mental illness – is to let them continue to do drugs and sleep on the streets. In their minds, it’s cruel to put them in jail or force them into shelters or rehab facilities. 

They apply the same logic to the transgender issue. A young boy believes he’s actually a girl? OK, let him be a girl. That’s what Democrats think. The compassionate thing to do is to indulge that delusion and bend over backwards to make the rest of society indulge the delusion as well. Make no mistake: a boy or a girl believing they are living in the wrong body is a delusion in the vast majority of cases. It needs to be treated as such. 

Democrats are, essentially, bad parents. 

Compassion Is Bad Parenting

Think about it this way. You’re a parent. Your child is screaming because he or she wants to eat ice cream for dinner and isn’t interested in the broccoli on the plate. What is the compassionate thing to do in this situation? Well, according to Democrats, give the kid ice cream. That’s what they want, so give it to them. 

Does anyone believe that’s actually the correct parenting move? Of course not. The real compassion is tough love. You want to eat ice cream for dinner? Too bad. It’s not good for you, and you’ll thank me later. 

Now, you might be thinking that this analogy doesn’t work for these complex situations. But I disagree. In fact, I think it’s the perfect analogy, especially because that’s how the Democratic Party views itself: They believe it’s the role of the government to serve as the parents of children. Look at their policies if you think I’m wrong. Democrats, at their core, believe that citizens have no control over their own lives, like children. Republicans, on the other hand, generally preach personal accountability, like adults. 

But what does any of this have to do with Tucker’s rant? The problem isn’t just that some males compete in women’s sports. Yes, it’s terrible that women are forced to share locker rooms and bathrooms with men in the name of gender ideology. Or have to sacrifice their athletic opportunities. But it’s the root of why that’s happening that underscores the insidiousness of the issue. 

Republicans focusing on this issue, and having the overwhelming majority of Americans agree with them, is an extremely important cultural victory that has already started to change the narrative. 

Many Americans look the other way while Democrat-run cities fall into complete disarray thanks to drugs, mental illness, homelessness and general mismanagement. But when Democrats say that boys can be girls and that they can use whatever bathroom they choose and compete against whomever they want, Americans are standing up and saying, “Enough!” 

Adults Acting Like Adults

This is about much more than just keeping men out of women’s sports. It’s a signal that the adults in the room are finally starting to act like adults. The days of letting your kid eat ice cream, play video games and contribute nothing are over. It’s time to teach them personal responsibility and, sometimes, that means being the bad guy – at least at the moment. 

Because long-term, tough love early in life leads to an easier time later in life. It’s a simple concept, one that’s been known for hundreds – if not thousands – of years, but one that we seem to have forgotten in these modern times. The win of keeping men out of women’s sports is not a small victory, as Carlson suggests. It’s a major victory that signals a broader cultural shift that America very much needed. 

People are, hopefully, waking up to the disastrous policy decisions made by Democrats. Without winning the battle on transgender athletes, Republicans couldn’t have exposed the other problems created by Democrats. American citizens are looking at Democrat politicians who are still pushing gender ideology, and supporting men in women’s sports, and saying, “If you believe something that ridiculous, how can I trust you on other important issues?” 

That’s why Tucker Carlson missed the mark. He downplays the importance of the transgender athlete issue because there are, in his mind, more important issues facing the country. He’s right about that, but also wrong. Winning the battle against transgender athletes in women’s sports and gender ideology sets up Republicans to start gaining important ground in the culture war. You don’t have to win every battle to win a war. But you have to win the important ones. 

This is one of those very important victories. 

Continue Reading

Sports

NWAC Hall of Fame Honors BC Student Athlete Alumni – The Watchdog

Earlier this June, the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) recognized the achievements of two Bellevue College teams and two student-athletes, inducting them into the 2025 Hall of Fame. The Northwest Athletic Conference is the parent organization for 37 community colleges throughout Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Annually, they honor exceptional athletes, coaches and teams within the […]

Published

on



Earlier this June, the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) recognized the achievements of two Bellevue College teams and two student-athletes, inducting them into the 2025 Hall of Fame.

The Northwest Athletic Conference is the parent organization for 37 community colleges throughout Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Annually, they honor exceptional athletes, coaches and teams within the NWAC by presenting awards like Coach of the Year and inducting new members into the Hall of Fame.

The current image has no alternative text. The file name is: NWAC-LOGO-PNG.png.webpThe current image has no alternative text. The file name is: NWAC-LOGO-PNG.png.webp

The two teams recognized, while being the only two inducted this year, are Bellevue College’s 1981 Women’s Cross Country team and 1983 Women’s Track and Field team. Rhonda Bell and Lisa Kindelan were Bellevue College’s student athletes inducted, among six other student athlete inductees across the conference. 

In total, half of the Hall of Fame inductees this year hail from Bellevue College.

Starting after the first inductee of the ceremony, track and field athlete, Rhonda Bell was inducted into the Hall of Fame posthumously. At the 1980 Spokane Community College meet, Bell won the 400-meter, 200-meter and long-jump events. She set meet record times for the 200-meter event and established the second-best long jump in NWAC history. Additionally, Bell anchored the winning 1600-meter relay for Bellevue College during that meet. Highlighting her accomplishments, she was named Bellevue College Female Athlete of the Year. 

Bell further defended her titles in the 400 and 200-meter events in the following 1981 season. Even more than 40 years later, Bell still holds the fastest 400-meter race times in the NWAC, at 53.69 and 54.21 seconds. 

Bell continued her athletic career at Oregon State University, going on to establish an eighth all-time in the 400-meter race and being named “All-Pac 10” twice. After an incredibly decorated career, Bell sadly passed away in 2015.

Also inducted into the Hall of Fame was cross-country and track athlete Lisa Kindelan. 

She led Bellevue’s women’s cross country team to its first women’s championship, the NWAC Cross Country Championship in 1980, and won the individual championship with a record time of 17:53 in 1981. By the time the season finished, Bellevue College’s cross-country team ranked #1 nationally. Kindelan helped Bellevue College win the NWAC championships in 1981 and 1982. She ran impressive times of 10:20 for the 3K race and a 17:54 for the 5K in 1981.

Kindelan transferred to the University of Idaho, where she competed all-conference in cross country and track and field during her upperclassmen years. Kindelan remains the only woman in the NWAC to compete in three Olympic trials, placing 10th, 19th, and 29th in her three trial marathons. Throughout the 1990s, she competed in many notable marathons, such as the U.S. Marathon (2:35:00) in 1995 and the USA 5K championships in 1996. Kindelan was also a member of the U.S. Track and Field team at Seattle’s Goodwill Games in 1990, where she finished in fourth.

Bellevue College’s 1981 Women’s Cross Country team and 1983 Track & Field team were last to be inducted. Throughout the 1980s, they contributed greatly to Bellevue College’s athletic history. 

Notably, 1981’s Women’s Cross Country competed exceedingly well at the NWAC championship that season. The first, second and third place finishes by the Bellevue College athletes rank as three of the four fastest times ever run at a NWAC Cross Country Championship. The team’s first, second, third, seventh, eighth and ninth placements during the NWAC’s Women’s Cross Country Championship helped contribute to their undisputed win that year.

Additionally, Bellevue College’s 1983 Women’s Track and Field team remains the most dominant team in NWAC history. Thirteen out of seventeen events at the NWAC Track and Field Championships were won by this team, as well as scoring in all seventeen events. The athletes set four conference records and three of them remain today. 

Bellevue College athletics director, Jeremy Eggers, emphasized his pride about the Hall of Fame inductions. “This was a great way to honor the rich sports history at Bellevue College,” Eggers said. He also noted that this was the first time in eight years that Bellevue College had been honored by the NWAC. 

It was clear that representation mattered to Eggers during this year’s nomination process. “Bellevue College didn’t have any females or female teams inducted prior, so I thought that was an important thing to acknowledge,” says the athletic director. “These were the best of the best at the time in the NWAC. These are very good representations of our athletic department, and what they did back then is what we’re continuing to strive to do in the sports that we do currently have.” 

This year’s inductees represent what Bellevue College’s athletics have always been about一dedication and hard work in the face of adversity. Congratulations to the inductees and Bellevue College athletics!





Link

Continue Reading

Sports

MLB Draft 2025 live updates

In the leadup to Sunday’s MLB Draft, many pundits will note the Holliday family’s deep baseball ties. Matt Holliday played 15 years in the major leagues and made seven All-Star games. His oldest son, Jackson, was drafted first overall three years ago and is now the second baseman for the Baltimore Orioles. Now, Ethan Holliday […]

Published

on

MLB Draft 2025 live updates

In the leadup to Sunday’s MLB Draft, many pundits will note the Holliday family’s deep baseball ties. Matt Holliday played 15 years in the major leagues and made seven All-Star games. His oldest son, Jackson, was drafted first overall three years ago and is now the second baseman for the Baltimore Orioles.

Now, Ethan Holliday is next in line for a baseball dynasty forged under the endless skies of Oklahoma. He is a gifted 6-foot-4 shortstop with tremendous raw power from the left side. He has a chance to go to the Washington Nationals first overall, and if he doesn’t go there, draft experts predict he will go fourth to the Colorado Rockies, the same organization that drafted his father.

Some may mention that the line doesn’t actually start with Matt, Jackson, and Ethan. Tom Holliday — Matt’s father and Jackson’s and Ethan’s grandfather — was a longtime Division I baseball coach, including a seven-year run as the coach at Oklahoma State. His brother, Dave, is a veteran scout for the Philadelphia Phillies. Matt’s brother, Josh, is now the coach at OSU.

There are other families out there who have made baseball their business. The Alous, the Boones, the Griffeys. Thirteen pairs of brothers have been drafted as first-round picks. B.J. Upton went second in 2002, and Justin Upton went first in 2005.

But if Ethan were to go No. 1, it would be the first time in baseball history two brothers have both been 1-1 picks. Only Peyton and Eli Manning have done that in any major American sport.

Read more below.

Ethan Holliday could go No. 1 in the MLB Draft. It would be a pick 4 generations in the making

GO FURTHER

Ethan Holliday could go No. 1 in the MLB Draft. It would be a pick 4 generations in the making

Continue Reading

Sports

Five Teesside stories you might have missed this week

Image source, Walter CrinnionImage caption, Walter Crinnion was a keen amateur photographer From a lost cache of photographs of a folklore festival to the A66 dualling plan being approved – here are some of the stories from Teesside you might have missed this week. Stray puppy recruited by police force Image source, Durham PoliceImage caption, […]

Published

on


A big crowd of people sitting on grass. One person is holding a Spanish flag, the other is holding a Polish flag. Everyone is in traditional folk clothing.Image source, Walter Crinnion
Image caption,

Walter Crinnion was a keen amateur photographer

From a lost cache of photographs of a folklore festival to the A66 dualling plan being approved – here are some of the stories from Teesside you might have missed this week.

Stray puppy recruited by police force

Jager the Belgian Malinois puppy. He has tan-coloured fur, which is black around his big eyes and nose. His ears are standing up but the tips have flopped down and are pointing at the floor. His head is poking out of a large police dog handler vest.Image source, Durham Police
Image caption,

Eight-week-old Jager was found running around the streets of Hartlepool before he was rescued

A police force has gained a new four-legged recruit after it adopted a stray puppy.

Jager, an eight-week-old Belgian Malinois, was found running around the streets of Hartlepool last week before he was taken in by animal charity Stray Aid, Durham Police said.

After seeing the young pup’s potential, the organisation contacted the force’s Dog Support Unit to see if there was a job for him.

Hundreds of dead fish in lake after hot weather

Several fish are floating on the surface of a lake among sticks and a tin can. Image source, Alec Brown
Image caption,

The fish fatalities have been explained by hot weather and a drop in dissolved oxygen levels

Hundreds of fish have died in a park lake after a significant drop in oxygen levels due to increased water temperatures.

Residents spotted the fish floating on the surface of the lake at Locke Park, Redcar, Teesside.

The Environment Agency (EA) investigated and determined it had been caused by “natural factors”.

A66 dualling approved again after review delay

A Google Street View screenshot of the A66 at Kirkby Thore in Cumbria. The road is single carriage, with heavy traffic.Image source, Google
Image caption,

The government said the work would reduce journey times on the route across northern England by up to 12 minutes

A plan to dual the A66 has been approved again, a year after the government put the scheme on hold.

The project to widen the road, which runs from Penrith to Scotch Corner, was approved by the previous Conservative government, but when Labour won the election last July it put the plan on hold to review a “black hole” in the public purse.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has now confirmed the work in a £92bn national package announced on Tuesday.

Water polo team ‘dreaming’ of winning top division

The Sedgefield Water Polo team are gathered in their trunks waving two towels saying Sedgefield Water Polo Club. The whole team look delighted raising their hands in the air.Image source, Sedgefield Water Polo Club
Image caption,

Sedgefield Water Polo team have been promoted to Division One of the British Water Polo League

A men’s water polo team will be entering Division One and competing for a place in European competitions after four back to back promotions.

The Sedgefield Water Polo Club will represent their County Durham town and nearby Newton Aycliffe in the top flight of the British Water Polo League, external from September.

The men’s team was created in 2021 and started playing at the bottom of the pyramid in Division Five.

Photos showcase early days of folklore festival

A 1960s picture showing several young women in red and white dresses with young men in background wearing light blue shirts and talking to each other. They are lined up alongside a brick building. A young man in middle of photo is wearing a Native American outfit with traditional headdress. Image source, Walter Crinnion
Image caption,

This year is Billingham International Folklore Festival’s 60th anniversary

A treasure trove of previously unseen photographs that showcase the early years of a folklore festival have been revealed.

The images capture the spectacle of the Billingham International Folklore Festival (BIFF) from 1968 to the early 1970s.

The shots were all taken by keen amateur photographer Walter Crinnion before his death in 1974.

Get in touch

Do you have a story suggestion for BBC Tees?



Link

Continue Reading

Most Viewed Posts

Trending