Ten-year-old Brady Miller couldn’t hit the ball right. So his dad, Rick Miller, made a training tool that gave him clues about how to swing the bat, reports the Dallas Morning News. Two years later, the RBI Pro Swing is manufactured in Irving, packaged in Fort Worth and sold in sports stores across the country. […]
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Sports marketing and licensing brands are growing niches in the consumer marketing industry. The ABA, a well-known brand developed over 40 years ago when the American Basketball Association was first launched, is in the midst of expansion. The colorful basketball and ABA league logo are well known to millions of people. The ABA was relaunched
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They built it and boy-oh-boy did they come. The Boston Globe reports that an estimated 1 million visitors have journeyed to the “Field of Dreams’’ movie site since the Academy Award-nominated film was released in 1989. But the owners of the farm, Don and Becky Lansing, say they have gone the distance, and now the
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BallStars is a sports-affiliated business that uses a proprietary technology to reproduce full color images on sports paraphernalia, such as baseballs, soccer balls, baseballs, hockey pucks, volleyballs, and footballs. In addition to the sports balls, the photographs can also be applied to other curved surfaces and materials. Licensing a BallStars business offers plenty of opportunities
David Nemetz and his high school buds grew up in Silicon Valley getting their sports info from ESPN.com. But the mainstream site was, well, mainstream. Where, they muttered, were the reports on mixed martial arts? So after college, the foursome pooled close to $100,000 from their families to hire software developers to create an “open-source”
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From behind home plate, Jason Klein and Casey White look proudly at the Reading Phillies’ flamethrower Phillippe Aumont. It’s not his high-priced arm they’re admiring, it’s what he’s wearing. “They’re the only team with pink on their uniforms,” White says. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Klein and White, who are each 30 years old, are the
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The World Cup doesn’t make people lazy, it just refocuses their attention and kills productivity. A new infographic from InsideView makes this abundantly clear. Click the image for a larger version.
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According to The Morning Sentinel, it’s easy to learn, fun, and extremely popular, say those who play pickleball. Say what? Yes, pickleball. You might call it a cross between badminton, pingpong and tennis. It’s played with a net, paddles and a ball with holes in it, similar to a Wiffle ball. The game, while developed
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@siah: [business idea] A vuvuzela alarm clock. It can get you (and your neighbors) out of the bed on Mondays.
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