The News Review:
- Americans look to casual sports in rough times
- Guess who’s growing? Sport Supply Group
- Sports buzz: Mizzou adds new basketball signee
- Positive or Negative There’s No Changing History
- Caution in the heat: Ease student athletes into summer sports …
- Del. Hires Lawyers For Sports Betting Fight
Americans look to casual sports in rough times
The Associated Press
The number of pick-up basketball players increased by 13 percent since 2006 soccer by 14 percent tackle football by 11 percent. Even pick-up baseball — not the easiest sport to whip up a game quickly — saw a 17 percent increase with slow-pitch softball at 9 percent. Mike May director of communications for the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association that conducted the survey said the increased number of casual players ages 6 and up has a direct connection with the sluggish economy of the past two years. “I think people are being more creative with their time and their athletic pursuits” May said. “They see they can still play the game but don’t have to make financial or time commitment to be at a certain place at a certain time for two practices and a game every week. “SGMA conducted an internet survey of between 30000 and 40000 households May said and found that while organized team sports and leagues are still popular — 11 of 18 sports mentioned in the survey had majorities playing organized ball — the number of pick-up players is increasing on almost a sport-by-sport basis.
Guess who’s growing? Sport Supply Group
Bizjournals.com
Blumenfeld said Har-Bell will continue to run as a unit under the Sport Supply Group company allowing Har-Bell’s employees to leverage Sport Supply’s operational backbone while Har-Bell moves forward with “what they do best which is selling to the customer” Blumenfeld told the Dallas Business Journal in a phone interview. Blumenfeld added “Right now is an interesting time for these transactions. ” With financing hard to come by in the marketplace Blumenfeld said Sport Supply Group has found that companies in the team sports business are finding “it’s easier to play with you than against you. "He confirmed that Sport Supply Group is finding attractive purchasing opportunities in the economy but said these businesses are not all distressed sellers. In fact he said the latest acquisition had nothing to do with a company in distress. In the current tough economy Blumenfeld said the vertical approach to reaching consumers that Sport Supply Group uses through direct catalog sales is attractive to companies that want to continue to sell by coupling their efforts with Sport Supply’s operations. Sport Supply Group said earlier in the month that its preliminary 2009 fiscal year data indicates that the company’s 2009 income will be at its highest level in the business’ 37-year history.
Sports buzz: Mizzou adds new basketball signee
Kansas City Star
5 season-opener against Northern Colorado is the fourth and final non-league game to find a spot on TV schedules. It will be shown on Fox College Sports at 6 p.
Positive or Negative There’s No Changing History
New York Times
I believe journalists should reveal details like this when they can be verified but the rtiz and Ramirez tests from 2003 do not count. Three things I know about sports and drugs. ne is that anabolic steroids and EP are banned from almost all sports for good reason.
Caution in the heat: Ease student athletes into summer sports …
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Nobody it seems can recall the last time a New Jersey high school athlete collapsed and died on the field because of the heat. It could be more than 30 years ago the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association says although its records don’t reach back that far. The National Federation of High School Athletic Associations compiles statistics on athletic deaths caused by heat and trauma but it doesn’t sort the numbers by state. Neither does the National Center for Catastrophic Injury Research.
Del. Hires Lawyers For Sports Betting Fight
WJZ
Hires Lawyers For Sports Betting Fight – wjz. The leagues want to stop Delaware from allowing sports gambling. The Wilmington firm of Bouchard Margules and Friedlander will argue the state’s position that full-scale sports betting doesn’t violate the Delaware Constitution.
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