Dick's Sporting Goods Chief Edward W. Stack bought out his father, Dick Stack, when Dick's Sporting Goods was two stores and more of a bait-and-tackle shop reflecting his father's fishing passion.
However, just three months later, shares in JJB tumbled after Dick's Sporting Goods said it had in effect written off its entire investment.
It isn't just bats underpinning Dick's: Consumers have shown a surprising willingness to shell out money on sports equipment even in tough times.
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Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. engages as a sporting goods retailer, which offers a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment.
Central to the film (and Philip K. Dick's original story) is the idea of Precrime -- the ability to foresee a crime and prevent it from happening.
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This sort of thing is much better accomplished in novels (alternative histories such as Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle") or movies ("mockumentaries" like "This Is Spinal Tap").
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"Every team is going to have a different uniform than they had last year, " even if it is just to add the Nike swoosh, Ed Stack, Chief Executive of Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.
To date George Bush's most controversial pardon was to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby - Dick Cheney's former aide, who was convicted of perjury in the investigation into the leaking of the CIA agent Valery Plame.
Aug. 22, 1968 Chicago White Sox pitcher Tommy John throws a pitch over the head of Detroit's Dick McAuliffe, who charges the mound.
Now it looks as if he is more interested in avoiding hard questions about Dick Cheney's spell as head of Halliburton or his own ties to dubious energy chiefs.
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The Last Days of Lehman Brothers imagines CEO Dick Fuld's attempt to save the bank in its final days, and his appeals to treasury secretary Hank Paulson for a bailout.
These influential legislators indicated that they shared Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney's view that this action, taken last week by the Commerce Department, was contrary to U.S. national security interests.
Libby was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff until October 2005, when a grand jury indicted him for lying to investigators about conversations he had with reporters concerning the identity of undercover CIA Agent Valerie Plame.
Some 1, 034 votes will be needed for the nomination, and party officials appear to be shooting for Bush to go over the top on that night, possibly when Wyoming, vice presidential designee Dick Cheney's home state, casts its votes.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted in 2007 in connection with the leaking of CIA officer Plame's identity -- information that was technically classified, though Cheney later implied that information had been declassified.
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, was actually indicted last year for perjury and obstruction of justice, not for naming the agent to a columnist--although the special prosecutor appears to have implied that Libby had done so--but for incorrectly recalling who had told him the name of the CIA agent.
With Zenit midway through the Russian season, the difference in sharpness between the sides was clearly evident, and Dick Advocaat's side showed they could well be a threat in this season's Champions League - even without Andrei Arshavin, who has been heavily linked with Spurs and who only played 45 minutes in Monaco.
That's why, working with people like Dick Durbin, who's been vocal on this for a long time, we've got to confront the gaping loophole that the Supreme Court recently opened in our campaign finance laws that allowed special interests to spend without limit to influence American elections.
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That's why, according to Walt Disney studio chairman Dick Cook, it's unusual for a studio to make a big investment in movies that are supposed to be funny.
Former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, one of the experts assembled by the family's lawyer to review Freeh's report last year to Penn State, said the document was fundamentally flawed and incomplete.
So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher.
He wrote the screenplay for John Huston's film Moby Dick and scripts for many TV series, including Suspense, The Alfred Hitchcock Show and The Twilight Zone.
Broadie and his co-researcher, Dick Rendleman of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, are the ones who determined that the World Golf Rankings favor players who earn points primarily outside the PGA Tour.
The extraordinarily close race "ought to cause mutual respect, " said Christopher, who in recent days has expressed his regard for some members of the other camp--including former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, Bush's running mate.
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It scheduled various witnesses to appear at the hearing held earlier today, including Pro Football Hall of Fame member Dick Butkus, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Chief Science Officer Larry Bowers, and National Institutes of Health Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak.
Mr Sullivan, who was arrested in January over alleged corrupt payments, told the inquiry he believed that he would have been one of a circle of reporters Scotland Yard's communication director Dick Fedorcio would have trusted to talk to.
In an interview with the BBC's Panorama last year Professor Dick van Velzen said that he had removed and stored the organs of 845 children at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, in Liverpool, where he was the senior pathologist from 1988-1995.
Mr. Bradbury adapted his stories for TV, co-wrote the script for the 1956 film "Moby Dick" and produced children's books, poetry and text for coffee-table books.
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