Every year, SFIA's National Health Through Fitness Day brings together industry leaders, celebrity athletes, the American College of Sports Medicine, PHIT Coalition partners, PE teachers and other physical activity advocates to meet with Congress to push...

Anyone in the sporting goods industry is encouraged to nominate any individual they feel is worthy of consideration for the Sporting Goods Hall of Fame. The time is now, because nominations for the 2021 Class of the Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Fame are being accepted through February 21, 2020.

There must be something to this e-sports thing because yet another major sporting goods brand – in fact, the major sporting goods brand – has jumped on board. Yes, none other than Nike has signed an exclusive apparel partnership with...

With many believing that the future of football has a flag attached to it, the National Flag Football National Championships in Tampa, FL, this month marked the debut of two flag football technologies aimed at growing the game.

With the goal of reducing the amount of waste that goes into landfills, while at the same time offering a quality apparel product, SanMar has introduced the District Re-Tee made from 100 percent recycled fabric.

Yesterday OrderMyGear released an insightful article on its OMG Blog about The Amazon Effect in the Branded Product Space. This article includes specific, data-backed action-items for team sports dealers and vendors to empower themselves to overcome the...

The state of the team sports – and overall sporting goods – business in 2020 can best be described as “Okay, not great,” and it appears that’s about as good as it is going to get for some time. That’s the consensus of the recently released 2019 State of the Industry Report from...

Bill Robinson, a sporting goods industry legend who built Bradenton, FL-based Robby’s Sporting Goods into a regional sporting goods retail powerhouse before selling it to Woolworth – which then turned it into Champs Sports – passed away January 2 at the age of 70.

There’s an oddly named new sport in town and while today it is still mostly the realm of older folks looking for a lower impact version of tennis for a good workout, it is increasingly being played in clubs and schools across America.

With most publications offering their “20 for 20” lists to mark the start of the new decade, we decided to go in another direction and make our 2020 predictions from A to Z.

The so-called “e-sports” juggernaut continues to gain traction in the world of sports as three major brands recently unveiled product designed specifically for the unique needs of gamers.

The Georgia High School Association is making girls’ flag football a sanctioned sport in high schools throughout the state this year. The move comes following the Atlanta Falcons and The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation’s commitment and support of girls’ high school flag football...

The January/February issue of Team Insight will have our obligatory list of predictions not only for 2020, but for the new decade ahead. But instead of the regular 20 for 2020 format, we take it in a different direction and make our decade predictions from A to Z.

Olympia Sports, which was recently acquired by sports retailer JackRabbit, is closing 76 stores. The athletic footwear and apparel chain will continue to operate its remaining 75 stores under the Olympia Sports’ banner.

In the news once again this issue, BSN Sports last week acquired the team sports business of Wayne Sporting Goods (WSG), based in Wayne, PA. WSG has been serving team sports customers in the Philadelphia area for 64 years.

Even with some high-profile users and big-name investors, football helmet manufacturer Vicis announced in late December that it is entering into receivership after facing serious financial troubles.

At the Table…Scott Schulman, Executive VP, Pearsox. Ashleigh Brown, Marketing Director, Pro Feet. Josh Wintermantel, Founder/CEO, Socks Quick. Brad Davis, VP–Sales, Twin City Knitting.

There is only one high school sport with more than one million participants —11-player tackle football, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).

As we prepare for the start of a new decade in 2020, Team Insight asked the leading executives in the world of team sports — dealers, associations, reps, manufacturers — for their thoughts on what the next 10 years will bring for the business.

The team sports game is changing – drastically and rapidly. This change is being driven by technology, which is enabling forward thinkers to bring their ideas to the market faster than ever.

At The Table: Kelly Richardson, President, Richardson Cap; Chad Kennedy, National Sales Manager, The Game; Mike Hiskey, Creative Director, Pukka.

The big-picture participation numbers for tackle football in the U.S. have certainly been better, but they could be worse. According to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association’s (SFIA) most recent Topline Participation Report, there were 5.2 million tackle football players (age six and older)...

Technology is undoubtedly changing the team sports business and no where is that more apparent than in the proliferation of online Uniform Builders being offered by almost all of the major apparel and headwear vendors to team dealers.