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Olympia Sports To Close Remaining 35 Stores - Team Insight

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

New England Retail Shifts Again with Olympia Sports’ Liquidation - Footwear Insight

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

What Caused Olympia Sports’ Demise - Footwear Insight

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

Rapid Fire with JackRabbit’s Bill Kirkendall - Footwear Insight

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

Olympia Sports Closing 76 Stores Following JackRabbit Purchase - Team Insight

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 - Footwear Insight

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

JackRabbit Parent Acquires Shoes.com from Walmart - Footwear Insight

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

Nike Reportedly To Stop Selling To More Sporting Goods Accounts - Team Insight

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

Fleet Feet Acquiring JackRabbit from PE Firm - Footwear Insight

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

The World’s Game - Team Insight

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

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

Mat Tales - Team Insight

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

Olympic Movement - Team Insight

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

Team Sports Added to 2028 Olympics - Team Insight

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

Skims Is Official Underwear of the U.S. Olympic Team - Team Insight

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

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

NFL Pushes For Flag Football In Olympics - Team Insight

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

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

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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

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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.

Keeping Score - sportstyle

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

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

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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

Girls Take Over the Mats - Team Insight

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

NFL Making Flag Football Push - Team Insight

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

BSN Enters Two Partnerships - Team Insight

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

From 10 To 1 The Year in Team Sports - Team Insight

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

Track Star Allyson Felix Launches Her Own Brand - Footwear Insight

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

Grappling with COVID - Team Insight

sport in a time when social distancing is a mantra.

Obituary: Jim Easton, 88 - Team Insight

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

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

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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

Digging It - Team Insight

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

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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.

Sticking To It - Team Insight

“The Women’s World Championship will be a great opportunity to celebrate the growth of the game internationally and provide visibility for the sport,” she says.

Nike, USA Gymnastics Partner - Team Insight

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.

Fanatics Is Key Retailer for 2028 LA Olympics - Team Insight

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

Steelo Sports Is First Black-Owned Glove Brand in Olympics - Team Insight

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

Mizuno Partners With Volleyball World - Team Insight

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

Box Score - Team Insight

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 - Team Insight

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

Keeping Score - Team Insight

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

Report Shows Positive Team Sports Trends - Team Insight

Report Shows Positive Team Sports Trends. January 5, 2023. By. Michael Jacobsen. Share: Things are looking up in the world of team sports, according to the 2022 U.S.

SFIA’s Report Shows Americans’ Inactivity Rate Declining - Team Insight

Across the seven sports categories tracked by SFIA, water sports saw the largest year-over-year increase in participation at 2.3 percent, followed closely behind by outdoor sports with

Pin-Interest - Team Insight

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

NJCAA Adds Four More Emerging Sports - Team Insight

NJCAA Adds Four More Emerging Sports. Photo courtesy of USA Cheer. January 21, 2021. By. Michael Jacobsen.

Adidas Adjusts to Changing Landscape - Footwear Insight

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.

Team Sports Returning to Pre-Pandemic Levels - Team Insight

They are the future of team sports.

Roaring Back - Team Insight

This iteration could be vital to the sport’s health for the next few years.

Seven Former Standout High School Athletes Headline 2021 Class of National High School Hall of Fame - Team Insight

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

The Bank Shots - Team Insight

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

No Holds Barred - Team Insight

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

Special Discussion - Team Insight

Sports.

In The News: Franklin Retail Solutions, Tracksmith, OIA and Balega - Footwear Insight

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 - sportstyle

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

Filling A Void In A Local Team Market - Team Insight

The formation of the separate Arch Team Sports (“Arch” because of the St.

BSN Sports Acquires Sports Plus In Tennessee - Team Insight

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

SV Sports Ups Its Team Sports Game. - Team Insight

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 - Team Insight

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

Breaking News: BSN Sports Acquires Donnelley Sports - Team Insight

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