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

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

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

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).…

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…

While rugby – in the seven-on-seven format, aka “sevens” – is now being played in the Summer Olympics, the traditional 15-a-side game was initially played in the Summer Olympics in…

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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…

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.…

With the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics featuring women’s flag football for first time, the wave is poised to build,” notes. Tom Cove, recently retired president and CEO of. SFIA.…

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.…

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

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…

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

GIRLS’ SPORTS/LACROSSE. Sticking Power.…

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

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

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.…

The Olympic Impact.…

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

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.…

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

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

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

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

Of all of the traditional team sports in America, fast-pitch softball is in its own unique niche — it is the only team sport that’s dominated by young girls.…

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…

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

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. By. Michael Jacobsen. Jul/Aug. 2022. Issue.…

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…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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

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.…

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.…

In all likelihood, pickleball will someday become an Olympic sport as well as an NCAA sport, but it hasn’t happened yet.…

This increase is likely driven by ongoing market and economic uncertainty surrounding tariffs and a natural post-Olympic participation slowdown.…