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Olympia Sports To Close Remaining 35 Stores. August 4, 2022. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

What Caused Olympia Sports’ Demise. September 21, 2022. By. Bob McGee. Share: Sporting goods chain.…

New England Retail Shifts Again with Olympia Sports’ Liquidation. July 27, 2022. By. Bob McGee.…

Share: Bill Kirkendall, CEO of active retailer JackRabbit Sports, is bullish on the specialty channel.…

Olympia Sports Closing 76 Stores Following JackRabbit Purchase. January 9, 2020. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

In The News: Olympia Sports, Grassroots Outdoor Alliance, OOFOS, Exos, Puma. January 18, 2023. By. Cara Griffin. &.…

Share: CriticalPoint Capital, the Manhattan Beach, CA-based private equity firm whose investment portfolio includes the JackRabbit specialty run chain and Maine-based Olympia Sports…

Share: Most team dealers not called BSN Sports will know the feeling of losing Nike as a vendor as the shoe brand continues its oft-stated strategy to rely more on its own direct-to-consumer…

Actions included the Jan. 2020 purchase of Olympia Sports where it retained half of the Northeast chain’s 150 doors and the Jan. 2021 merger of Shoes.com (which it acquired from Walmart…

inclusion – along with baseball – at the Tokyo Summer Olympics.…

The bad news is that for some reason the two sports (considered one sport by the IOC) didn’t make the cut for inclusion in the 2024 Olympics in Paris and could be replaced by the likes…

Olympic Team. July 15, 2021. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

Team Sports Added to 2028 Olympics. October 19, 2023. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

New professional leagues coupled with Olympics exposure will drive volleyball participation growth. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/K.M. Klemencic from Hudson, Ohio). By.…

Flag Football @ 2028 LA Olympics. Olympic Dreams Come True.…

Flag Football @ 2028 LA Olympics. Olympic Dreams Come True.…

Overall, things are really shaping up in a big way for female team sports in 2024, most notably with the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics.…

For most sports fans of a certain age, their first exposure to wrestling and one of the sport’s most indelible images can be traced back to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich when American…

Share: For most sports fans of a certain age, their first exposure to wrestling and one of the sport’s most indelible images can be traced back to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich…

sport in a time when social distancing is a mantra.…

Share: The most decorated women’s Track & Field Olympian in history, Allyson Felix, has launched her own lifestyle brand called Saysh.…

Here’s a glimpse into Ripley’s road to the Olympics. Tell me a bit about your work at TYR.…

It was an Olympics year, for sure, and that brought the regular quadrennial interest to the “other” sports such as track and field, softball and even breakdancing (a sport not covered…

Share: The enthusiasm around women’s volleyball is contagious, particularly at the high school level, and the sport shows no signs of a slowdown.…

Women’s Olympic team won the gold medal at the recently completed Summer Olympic Games in Paris. It was the fifth Olympic gold medal won by the U.S.…

Fanatics Is Key Retailer for 2028 LA Olympics. September 15, 2022. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

USA Gymnastics reported that this is the largest contract in terms of annual and total value for the national governing body, running through the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.…

Mizuno has been a part of Volleyball World’s portfolio of global partners since 2022, with the brand able to strengthen its position in the global market by connecting with the sport…

Steelo Sports Is First Black-Owned Glove Brand in Olympics. August 5, 2021. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

Despite the nationwide shutdown of sports, there were a few states that actually conducted and completed a high school fast-pitch softball season.…

BSN Sports Acquires Nill Bros. Sports, Longstreth Sports. The Longstreth Sports retail barn in Spring, City PA. March 5, 2020. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

Flag Football @ 2028 LA Olympics. Olympic Dreams Come True.…

Share: Once strictly a male sport, wrestling is being embraced by growing numbers of females and the sport’s governing bodies, product manufacturers and team dealers are eager to keep…

Although lacrosse won’t be included in the 2024 Paris Olympics, it will return to the 2028 Games in Los Angeles as North America’s first sport is now played in nearly 100 countries…

NFL Pushes For Flag Football In Olympics. May 5, 2022. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

“Anytime you have an Olympics, there’s going to be an uptick in participation, especially in a sport like wrestling,” Claussen adds.…

Also helping drive this effort was women’s wrestling standing as an Olympic sport since 2004. “College sports are huge in the United States,” said.…

Share: The global COVID-19 pandemic, the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and rising digital movement have pushed the Three Stripes to make changes to its business approach.…

gold in the Olympics: Karyn Bye of Wisconsin, Maicel.…

He also points out that the Olympic Games in 2004 gave female wrestling a big boost.…

Basketball prepares to leverage the Olympic Games to boost participation and sales. By.…

“It is now a revenue sport as people are paying to come watch the girls wrestle.”…

sponsorship model that will see the runners join the brand as full-time employees in the marketing department while training with an eye to competing in the rescheduled Tokyo 2021 Olympics…

SV Sports Ups Its Team Sports Game. By. Michael Jacobsen. Jul/Aug. 2022. Issue.…

online by Rob Maaddi, the NFL may be the sport’s biggest cheerleader.…

Share: As 2023 draws to a close BSN Sports remains active with two recently announced new partnerships. • First, although it’s not a sport for which team dealers sell a lot of equipment…

Easton was the second-generation owner of the sports equipment company that was started by his father James D.…

SV Sports Ups Its Team Sports Game. Minority-owned retailer/team dealer formed out of former Schuylkill Valley Sporting Goods.…

BSN Acquires Billings Sports, Sportline Team Sports. July 15, 2021. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

BSN Sports Acquires Sports Plus In Tennessee. March 18, 2021. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

Breaking News: BSN Sports Acquires Donnelley Sports. November 17, 2022. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

in the U.S. now sponsor a varsity girls’ wrestling program. • Since 2004, women’s wrestling has been a recognized Olympic sport. 6.…

Share: High school sports have always been the lifeblood of team sports and, like all other aspects of the business, they have had a challenging 18 months.…

Share: Jeff Webb, the man credited with helping to grow the sport of cheerleading in America in his role as founder and chairman of Varsity Spirit, is stepping away from the company…

Enter the specialty sports, In the modern team sports world more sports are played throughout the year by athletes who become sport-specific specialists at a young age and maintain…

That’s probably why fast-pitch is such an ideal example of a true team sport and why team dealers enjoy selling it.…

ASICS Partners With BSN Sports for Youth Sports Contest. February 16, 2023. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

Selkirk Enters Pickleball Partnership with US Sports Camps. March 2, 2023. By. Michael Jacobsen.…

Marathon Trials race in Atlanta on Feb. 29, six top finishers earned the right to represent the United States this summer at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.…

Abby Wambach Joins Score Sports. PHOTO CREDIT: ussoccer.com. February 2, 2023. By. Michael Jacobsen.…