Brand RPM, the provider of branded apparel, athletic uniforms, equipment and promotional items, has merged its team athletic division with Virginia-based Downtown Athletic Store. The new division will operate under the trade name Achieve Athletics.

Apparently still willing to wade into the sponsorship waters even after previous high-profile deals have fallen apart, Under Armour – perhaps persuaded by The Rock himself – has been named the Official Uniform Partner of the reborn XFL.

This news is something team dealers and their vendors are going to want to pay attention to — for a number of reasons. Recently big-box King of the Hill Dick’s Sporting Goods formed what it is calling DSG Ventures, which is basically a $50 million investment fund targeting sports-related companies.

The National Lacrosse League (NLL), the world’s largest professional lacrosse league, is renewing its protective equipment and apparel partnership with EvoShield. 

Rawlings Sporting Goods is moving from its current corporate headquarters located in Town & Country, MO, to Westport Plaza in Maryland Heights, MO. The move is scheduled to take place in late 2023.

The team sports business lost two of its most well-known and well-liked members last week.

Illustrating its continued support for small businesses across America, Stahls’ and Transfer Express recently shared the story of their first Stahl Family Small Business Scholarship $10,000 Shop Makeover winner.

In an announcement that took a lot of people by surprise at the Sports, Inc. Team Show last week in Las Vegas, CEO Todd Adams announced that he will be stepping down as CEO at the end of the year and that Travis Elam will become the buying group’s new CEO.

In a milestone rarely reached by any companies, team sports equipment supplier Gared has been celebrating its 100th anniversary throughout 2022. To mark the occasion, Team Insight sat down with Laura St. George, VP at Gared and Executive VP and Managing Member of Gared Holdings...

In its first high school sports participation survey in three years, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) reported a total of 7,618,054 participants in high school sports for 2021/22, down four percent from its 2018/19 figure of 7,937,491.

Goals/nets vendors address the major issues facing the team business in 2023. Big surprise: Pickleball is hot!

In a move that surprised many in the team sports business because it involves the current chairman of the National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) and a former board member of the Sports Inc. buying group, BSN Sports has acquired Donnelley Sports, located in Twin Falls, ID.

G-Form, the technology-driven sports protection brand, this week unveiled its first protective equipment for women in the softball, fast-pitch category.

In this week’s pickleball news, two rival pickleball leagues with some well-known names financing them have joined forces.

Well-respected team dealer Pat Johannsen, who founded Johannsen’s Sporting Goods in Augusta, GA, in 1969, passed away November 8, 2022. He was 75 years old.

Solidifying its traditional role as a major supplier the NCAA, Wilson Sporting Goods has extended its well-established partnership with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as the official ball of March Madness...

More than 2500 coaches, students, parents, administrators, athletic directors and others are involved in a first-of-its-kind NFHS National Book Study that began last month.

The latest in the world of pickleball: Franklin Sports has partnered with PicklePlay to provide exclusive discounts and new resources to users of the pickleball community app. The partnership makes Franklin the exclusive ball of the PicklePlay community, establishes discounts on Franklin gear and...

According to a recent report by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), approximately 18,000 Goalsetter wall-mounted basketball goals have been recalled because they could detach from the wall and fall to the ground.

The recently released Atlas BBCOR baseball bat from Louisville Slugger offers an expanded sweet spot and decreased vibration in a one-piece alloy bat and was developed through an innovative bat design process — optimization through digital simulation to create the bat.

The Legacy Buying Group. an alliance of nine promotional marketing companies across North America, has added OrderMyGear (OMG) as a preferred service provider of online stores for the group.

Alli Sports Group, the alliance of independent teams dealers primarily in the Southeast, has added Sportstop, Little Rock, AK, to its membership group. Sportstop will be covering Arkansas and part of Mississippi.

Louisville Slugger has launched its 2023 Omaha and Vapor from its one-piece alloy BBCOR (-3) bat line. The redesigned Omaha features the latest TPX-24 alloy barrel for increased stiffness and energy transfer on contact...

Outdoor Cap has named Andi Pratt as head of commerce. Pratt brings over 19 years of CPG and retail sales and marketing experience to Outdoor Cap, including stints at Nestle, Coca-Cola and Oak Ridge Winery.

CCM Hockey has been named the official equipment sponsor of the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association (PWHPA) for the upcoming season. CCM Hockey will supply helmets, protective gear, skates and sticks to players in the PWHPA’s 2022/23 games.