Beloved sporting goods retailer closing after 41 years

Bicycle Sports (Beaumont, TX): A family-run shop operating since 1984, it announced its closure in October 2025 due to a 40% ...
Crain's Cleveland Business

Tough racket: Independent sporting goods stores survive on service, relationships

You don't make it for 44 years in the sporting goods business — as Ken Adler has done — without a keen understanding of what customers want. But you also don't make it that long without guessing wrong ...
Washington Examiner

Sporting goods stores fight for customers

Cutthroat is how one analyst describes the sporting goods retail industry with the major players Dick?s Sporting Goods and Sports Authority expanding with new stores even as Wall Street investors ...
KTLA-TV Los Angeles on MSN

2 arrested in crime spree targeting Southern California sporting goods stores

A pair of suspects have been arrested in connection with a crime spree lasting for months and affecting local sporting goods ...