The ubiquitous 1990s Starter jacket, a staple of trendy fashion as well as the go-to jacket for Major League Baseball teams in that decade, has been relaunched as the Bronx Bubble jacket in a collaboration between MLB and Starter.

Continuing to strengthen its executive team, OrderMyGear (OMG) recently promoted Adam Gainey to VP–revenue operations, where he will be responsible for developing and executing strategies that improve client acquisition, growth and satisfaction by using streamlined processes...

Avoli, a new, Portland, OR-based athletic brand focused on the performance needs of female volleyball players, recently launched its flagship product line, led by the $140 Avoli Low-Top Volleyball Shoe, as well as recovery slides, knee pads and sleeves.

In an interesting move that ties a global soccer brand to one retailer in the U.S., Dick’s Sporting Goods has signed on as the U.S. anchor retail partner for Lotto’s soccer and tennis products.

Tanners Team Sports, which produces team and individual sports products, including baseball training equipment and accessories under the Rawlings and Easton brands, has been acquired by Smith’s Sporting Group.

After pausing its sponsorship deal last year with Canada’s governing hockey body amid heavy criticism of the organization’s handling of sexual assault allegations involving members of its 2018 World Junior team and settlement payouts, Nike has officially ended its sponsorship of Hockey Canada.

A number of rules changes affecting high school fast-pitch softball will have some impact on the products team dealers sell to their schools.

Three girls lacrosse equipment-related rules changes were accepted for the 2024 high school season by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Girls Lacrosse Rules Committee.

The Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) and Running USA today announced a strategic partnership that will benefit the members of both organizations.

As part of its mission to promote the benefits of sports and fitness in America by recognizing those who share that vision, the Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) recently paid tribute to Congressman Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN).

Let’s start by asking the question many of our readers are asking us: What is the supply chain situation for team headwear in mid-2023?

Editors’ picks for the hottest team sports products for 2023

The National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) filled an open spot on its Board of Directors with the recent appointment of Cole Johnson of Johnson-Lambe Sporting Goods in Raleigh, NC. Johnson’s three-year term took effect June 1.

Gared and Performance Sports Systems (PSS) are joining to better serve the sporting goods and new construction markets as Gared Performance Sports Systems. Both companies were part of Gared Holdings, LLC.

Major League Baseball (MLB) and GameChanger, a youth sports app for live streaming, scorekeeping and team management owned and operated by Dick’s Sporting Goods, have entered into a multi-year agreement designed to help strengthen the sports of youth baseball and softball.

The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Representative Assembly has approved a proposed amendment to include boys’ volleyball as a sanctioned interscholastic sport beginning with the 2024-25 school year.

In a move to significantly expand its distribution network, Stahls’ recently added LaserTek Solutions as a new Master Distributor for its Cad-Cut HTV and Hotronix heat presses.

In this issue’s pickleball news comes word that Franklin Sports has entered into a five-year partnership with Pickleball Canada that makes Franklin’s X-40 and X-26 balls and its paddles the Official Balls and Paddles of Pickleball Canada...

In arguably one of the more successful pairings in the team sports business, Sports Inc. and OrderMyGear (OMG) have renewed their multi-year partnership that designates OMG as the official technology provider of the sporting goods buying group.

The Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) has officially launched the SFIA Excelerator Program, an emerging leaders program for young professionals from diverse communities employed in the sports and fitness industry.

Having completed rigorous testing at Virginia Tech, a college football player – sophomore Carter Hogg – has developed a solution that reportedly reduces combined probability of concussion in contact sports by more than 60 percent.

The National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) is actively supporting the bipartisan Credit Card Competition Act reintroduced into Congress earlier this month...

Riddell and USA Football, the sport’s U.S. governing body, recently extended their partnership with a new three-year agreement that makes Riddell the official protective equipment partner of USA Football.

Charles Harvey Webster, age, 81, passed away on Saturday, June 3, 2023, at home. He was the inventor of the popular Palmgard protective glove, which has been sold for decades by Markwort Sporting Goods.

With the apparent success of its first three House of Sport stores in Rochester, NY, Knoxville, TN, and Minnetonka, MN, Dick’s Sporting Goods now plans to open at least 12 new Dick’s House of Sport stores in the next two years.