There is no doubt that athletes and serious fitness folk need to invest in solid and safe sporting equipment.
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However, I don't believe for one minute that being forced to check one's sporting equipment is anywhere near the heart of the problem.
Today, Nike is the global leader in sporting equipment and apparel.
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When asked if CheckLight will be priced low enough to make it affordable for Pop Warner parents, Kacyvenski would only say that it'll be affordable and comparable to the cost of other sporting equipment.
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The changes, to take effect on April 25, 2013, will permit passengers to carry folding pocket knives with blades up to 2.36 inches (6 centimeters) in length, as well as sporting equipment such as lacrosse and hockey sticks and golf clubs.
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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.
So, each Wednesday in the just-concluded spring semester, Anderson and a dozen other Missouri students crunched numbers in a campus computer lab, the male students' agrarian roots betrayed only by baseball caps sporting farm equipment logos.
To stay active, boomers also buy more sporting-goods equipment, like golf clubs and sports apparel from Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people ).
Rapid advances in equipment have encouraged some sporting bodies to reign in technology's influence.
While preparing for the trip, he walked into a San Antonio sporting goods store to buy some equipment, and struck up a conversation with a woman who was there buying hiking boots.
Some startups have had success in high-value niches like high-end sporting goods, food-related products and music equipment and instruments.
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The mild climes were bad for apparel stores and sporting-goods purveyors, which were stuck with boots, coats and snow-sport equipment.
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