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In sports, recognizing each of the players is important. It not only boosts their self-esteem, but gives everyone a chance to see their efforts have not gone unnoticed.
As a coach, and the father of four girls who were usually on the team he coached, he noticed how much they enjoyed the certificates he had […]
San Antonio Express-News:
Paige Bishop, inventor of a training device for pitchers, has managed to get his creation in the door of Major League Baseball. The St. Louis Cardinals adopted it into their program this past season. Brent Strom, pitching coordinator with the Cardinals’ minor league program, brought the pads into spring training at the Jupiter, […]
The New York Times:
Leave it to bass fishermen to come up with the right bait for Internet users.
FLW Fantasy Fishing has gained a quick following in the cluttered world of online fantasy sports by offering $1 million to anyone who can put together the best team of professional anglers in coming months.
The prize is as […]
Daily News:
Sometimes inspiration for starting a business venture just shows up where you might least expect it.
For Randy Herron, what he developed into a lawn game known as “Ring It! Golf” started with a visit to Greenville, N.C., eight years ago.
As so often happens in college towns, the Herrons found themselves in a neighborhood of […]
San Francisco Chronicle:
Players for the San Francisco 49ers trotted off the field during Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions and grabbed for the requisite towels and Gatorade. A few went for something else on the bench, slipping their hands into a coffee-pot-like contraption that stops cramping and overheating.
The device, called the Glove and invented by […]
Memphis Commercial Appeal:
Who would’ve thought,” he smiled. “A sock for the outside of the shoe?”
His Olive Branch-based business hinges on the distribution of The Debris Inhibitor, a nylon barrier preventing the “crumb rubber” — or small bits of rubber — of playing surfaces from entering athletic shoes, namely, cleats.
“My partner and I were visiting the […]
Fortune Small Business:
Jim Bintliff supplies special mud for Major League Baseball. The story goes back to when pro baseball teams began using new balls for each game. They wanted to remove the factory gloss and make the balls easier to grip. The umpires tried in-field dirt, shoe polish, and tobacco juice, but everything damaged the […]
Chicago Tribune:
Cubs fans hoping for a World Series title before they die at least can be buried in a place that looks like Wrigley Field when they do.
Ground was broken for “Beyond the Vines,” an internment area at Bohemian National Cemetery on Chicago’s Northwest Side that will be built to look something like the ballpark’s […]
Chron.com:
Danario Edgar is out for redemption.
His invention, the XrossOver Vest, is more than just a tool to teach the fundamentals of basketball.
It is also a symbol of a man trying to cross over his entire life. He wants to give children the opportunities to learn the game of basketball that he never had.
He wants to […]
Patriot-Ledger.com:
For local inventor Michael Getchell, teaching kids the sport of hockey is a key goal of his, and he credits much of his enthusiasm to “a little dummy.”
In 2001, Getchell, 46, a former East Bridgewater resident, and hockey teacher invented the A.C.E. Checkmate which was patented in 2004.
The A.C.E. Checkmate is a 5-foot-tall, weighted, padded, […]
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