Now that the darkest days of the pandemic are in the rearview mirror, tackle football, the bread and butter of team dealers for generations, is back with a full playbook. The proof is in the numbers: In the 2021-22 school year, 11-player football was the most popular boys’ high school sport...
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Any team dealer looking for a growth category in the traditional world of football need look no further than girls’ flag football. Yes, you read that correctly.
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The annual Goals/Nets Vendor Roundtable examines the issues impacting the business in 2023.
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Designed for track spike and golf shoes, OS1st’s Nekkid Comfort Socks are an invisible performance sock that doesn’t slip down into athletes’ shoe.
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Everyone probably knows the Champro story, but can you give us the “elevator pitch” on where the company came from? When I left Wilson Sporting Goods in 1986 and decided to start my own company, I knew it would be very tough competing against big, well-established brands.
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Tell us about how OrderMyGear came about? Back in 2008 school budgets were declining, but parents and kids still wanted apparel for their team or group. My father was a sales rep for Larry Black Sporting Goods in northwest Oklahoma and was collecting orders and payments from...
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Solid – if not quite spectacular – growth in sports apparel, sporting goods equipment and licensed products spurred a strong showing for sales in the U.S. sports and fitness market last year.
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In an industry where there are hundreds of options on where people can spend their money, FSGA has focused on value and quality.
Read More...There is no denying that participation and sales for most team sports, male and female, experienced setbacks during the key pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 — but 2022 thankfully marked a bit of turnaround.
Read MoreAs the team sports business transitions on the sports calendar away from winter to the spring season, the outlook for fast-pitch softball couldn’t be better, especially at the high school level.
Read MoreWash the kids’ uniforms — Check. Get all their equipment in the car — Check. Fill water bottles, pack snacks — Check. Amy’s practice starts at 9. Olivia has a game at 11.
Read MoreBashor’s Team Athletics, located in Portland, OR, and established in 1944, has been in Julia Sherman’s family since 1960, when her grandpa purchased it from the original owner’s widow.
Read MoreThe hottest, trend-right and technically advanced new products for girls’ and women’s sports as chosen by the editors of Team Insight. There is no shortage of new products being designed specifically for the female athlete as team sports return to a sense of normalcy.
Read MoreBaby boomers are getting more active. But too many Americans are still inactive. Yet overall, the outlook for sports participation and activity is good, with the silver linings darkened by a few storm clouds.
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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.
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Solidifying its position in the fast-pitch softball market, Rawlings recently entered into a multi-year agreement with the Women’s Professional Fastpitch (WPF) league to become the exclusive helmet brand worn in all games by WPF teams throughout the season.
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Volleyball World has entered into a multi-year partnership extension with Mizuno that will aim to grow the global reach of both brands while further connecting and engaging fans worldwide.
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Stahls’ recently debuted a new Heat Press Transformation video series featuring Marshall Atkinson that is designed to increase the efficiency of apparel decorators.
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High school basketball player uniforms and apparel for boys and girls were among rules changes approved by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) for the 2023-24 season.
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Readers can take this news however they want for the impact on their own operations or the business of team sports in general, but recently online competitor Sports Warehouse...
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A host of team dealers, sporting goods retailers and the brands that serve them – along with Team Insight – will converge on Nashville, TN, next week for the NSGA Team Dealer Summit and Management Conference. The event runs from May 21-23 at the W Nashville in Nashville.
In an effort to work directly with equipment manufacturers to review products in a collaborative, professional and timely manner and to avoid disruption to manufacturers and consumers, USA Lacrosse has instituted an interim process to review potential new women’s lacrosse stick heads for approval.
Cap America has promoted Grace Schettler to senior VP–sales. Schettler, an industry veteran and award-winning salesperson, joined the Cap America team as director of sales in 2017.
People taking advantage of opportunities to participate in a wide range of sports and activities in 2022 was reflected in the 10 segments tracked for the 2023 edition of the National Sporting Goods Association’s (NSGA) Sports Participation in the U.S. report.
With a number of state and federal lawmakers looking to ban the sale of kangaroo products, Nike reportedly plans to stop using kangaroo leather in its shoes.
The University of Cincinnati Athletics Department has entered into an apparel agreement with BSN Sports and at the same time has elected to equip its programs with Jordan Brand and Nike products.
In what will surely provide a big push for the growth of flag football at all levels, the National Football League, GENYOUth and NFL Flag are celebrating the 10th year of GENYOUth's NFL Flag-In-School program with the opening of national applications for the 2023-2024 school year.
Play It Again Sports has become the official resale partner of CCM, with sales running through the company’s more than 2809 franchised locations in North America.
In our regular pickleball news in TeamInsightExtra comes word that none other than the largest retailer in the world, Walmart, has partnered with the racquet sports booking platform, Break the Love...
In more flag football news, RCX Sports, the official operating partner of NFL Flag, has entered into a new partnership with NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation aimed at increasing flag football participation...
Solidifying its position in the fast-pitch softball market, Rawlings recently entered into a multi-year agreement with the Women’s Professional Fastpitch (WPF) league to become the exclusive helmet brand worn in all games by WPF teams throughout the season.
Read MoreVolleyball World has entered into a multi-year partnership extension with Mizuno that will aim to grow the global reach of both brands while further connecting and engaging fans worldwide.
Read MoreStahls’ recently debuted a new Heat Press Transformation video series featuring Marshall Atkinson that is designed to increase the efficiency of apparel decorators.
Read MoreHigh school basketball player uniforms and apparel for boys and girls were among rules changes approved by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) for the 2023-24 season.
Read MoreReaders can take this news however they want for the impact on their own operations or the business of team sports in general, but recently online competitor Sports Warehouse...
Read MoreA host of team dealers, sporting goods retailers and the brands that serve them – along with Team Insight – will converge on Nashville, TN, next week for the NSGA Team Dealer Summit and Management Conference. The event runs from May 21-23 at the W Nashville in Nashville.
Read MorePlay It Again Sports has become the official resale partner of CCM, with sales running through the company’s more than 2809 franchised locations in North America.
In our regular pickleball news in TeamInsightExtra comes word that none other than the largest retailer in the world, Walmart, has partnered with the racquet sports booking platform, Break the Love...
In more flag football news, RCX Sports, the official operating partner of NFL Flag, has entered into a new partnership with NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation aimed at increasing flag football participation...
Love them as a big sporting goods store or hate them as an all-powerful competitor, you have to hand it to Dick’s Sporting Goods for investing some significant resources into growing youth sports participation.
People taking advantage of opportunities to participate in a wide range of sports and activities in 2022 was reflected in the 10 segments tracked for the 2023 edition of the National Sporting Goods Association’s (NSGA) Sports Participation in the U.S. report.
After 45 years of business – and after conferring with its financial and legal advisors – Omega Sports has confirmed it is going out of business, including its e-commerce operation.
In a significant move at the professional level that will certainly trickle down to youth sports, the NFL and NFL Players Association recently approved a Vicis helmet for quarterbacks that is the first for the position specifically designed to reduce concussions.
In a major step forward for the sport, the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) delegate assembly recently voted unanimously to adopt girls’ wrestling as a sanctioned sport, starting with the 2023-24 school year. It is the first sport the OSAA has added since softball in 1979.
With baseball and softball season already underway in most parts of the country, Little League and Easton Diamond Sports have extended their Official Partnership through 2028.
In a true sign of the times – and in a move that would certainly impact sales by team dealers in that state – some senators in North Carolina have proposed eliminating participation trophies for youth sports.
Solidifying its position in the fast-pitch softball market, Rawlings recently entered into a multi-year agreement with the Women’s Professional Fastpitch (WPF) league to become the exclusive helmet brand worn in all games by WPF teams throughout the season.
Read MoreVolleyball World has entered into a multi-year partnership extension with Mizuno that will aim to grow the global reach of both brands while further connecting and engaging fans worldwide.
Read MoreStahls’ recently debuted a new Heat Press Transformation video series featuring Marshall Atkinson that is designed to increase the efficiency of apparel decorators.
Read MoreHigh school basketball player uniforms and apparel for boys and girls were among rules changes approved by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) for the 2023-24 season.
Read MoreReaders can take this news however they want for the impact on their own operations or the business of team sports in general, but recently online competitor Sports Warehouse...
Read MoreA host of team dealers, sporting goods retailers and the brands that serve them – along with Team Insight – will converge on Nashville, TN, next week for the NSGA Team Dealer Summit and Management Conference. The event runs from May 21-23 at the W Nashville in Nashville.
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreSolidifying its position in the fast-pitch softball market, Rawlings recently entered into a multi-year agreement with the Women’s Professional Fastpitch (WPF) league to become the exclusive helmet brand worn in all games by WPF teams throughout the season.
Read MoreVolleyball World has entered into a multi-year partnership extension with Mizuno that will aim to grow the global reach of both brands while further connecting and engaging fans worldwide.
Read MoreStahls’ recently debuted a new Heat Press Transformation video series featuring Marshall Atkinson that is designed to increase the efficiency of apparel decorators.
Read MoreHigh school basketball player uniforms and apparel for boys and girls were among rules changes approved by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) for the 2023-24 season.
Read MoreReaders can take this news however they want for the impact on their own operations or the business of team sports in general, but recently online competitor Sports Warehouse...
Read MoreA host of team dealers, sporting goods retailers and the brands that serve them – along with Team Insight – will converge on Nashville, TN, next week for the NSGA Team Dealer Summit and Management Conference. The event runs from May 21-23 at the W Nashville in Nashville.
Read MoreIn an effort to work directly with equipment manufacturers to review products in a collaborative, professional and timely manner and to avoid disruption to manufacturers and consumers, USA Lacrosse has instituted an interim process to review potential new women’s lacrosse stick heads for approval.
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