{"id":115857,"date":"2016-03-03T19:29:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T02:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=115857"},"modified":"2016-03-03T19:29:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T02:29:22","slug":"sports-authority-files-for-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=115857","title":{"rendered":"Sports Authority Files for Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p><em>Sports Authority filed for bankruptcy early Wednesday, saying it will close 140 stores- nearly a third of its total<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sports Authority follows the recent\u00a0retail giant trend\u2013floundering financially and closing stores. The company will close about 140 of its 463 stores. The retailer filed for Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware, a move aimed to help shed debt and clean up balance sheets.<\/p>\n<p>The stores\u2019 closings will take place over the next three months. The bankruptcy filing will allow\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/business.transworld.net\/news\/sports-authority-files-for-bankruptcy\/?_wcsid=B42B01CFC7F26EDBBDDF93B5093518F8C88127574D91BB42#Xh2M8hUI8kDBsVWo.97\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Authority filed for bankruptcy early Wednesday, saying it will close 140 stores- nearly a third of its total Sports Authority follows the recent\u00a0retail giant trend\u2013floundering financially and closing stores. The company will close about 140 of its 463 stores. The retailer filed for Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware, a move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115858,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115857\/revisions\/115858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}