{"id":506814,"date":"2026-03-06T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:31:09","slug":"thorns-and-fire-launch-memorabilia-platform-through-cllct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506814\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns and Fire launch memorabilia platform through cllct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-marketing-and-sponsorship \">RAJ Sports is aligning its two Portland franchises &#8212; the NWSL\u2019s Thorns and the WNBA\u2019s Fire &#8212; with collectible company cllct, as it launches another dual-sport women\u2019s-only platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-marketing-and-sponsorship \">Weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/24\/fire-thorns-collaborate-on-womens-sports-channel-in-portland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/24\/fire-thorns-collaborate-on-womens-sports-channel-in-portland\/\">creating a broadcast home<\/a> for both teams on Portland Fox 12 Plus, RAJ Sports struck this new memorabilia deal Thursday which will address each team in disparate ways. For the Thorns, cllct will build a centralized heritage archive that will allow fans to observe authenticated objects and story-telling experiences surrounding the soccer team. For the Fire, an expansion franchise, the memorabilia will range from artifacts about the original Fire WNBA team from 2000-02 and authentic firsts from this inaugural 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-marketing-and-sponsorship \">Through the deal &#8212; which was handled in-house &#8211;cllct becomes RAJ Sports\u2019 official collectible and heritage preservation partner. Journalist and business analyst Darren Rovell founded cllct in April of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-marketing-and-sponsorship \">\u201cThis is not about flooding the market with products,\u201d said Rovell. \u201cIt is about building a credible collecting ecosystem that women\u2019s sports has deserved for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RAJ Sports is aligning its two Portland franchises &#8212; the NWSL\u2019s Thorns and the WNBA\u2019s Fire &#8212; with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[402,46185,403,99,434,1765],"class_list":["post-506814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-nwsl","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}