Cliff Hawks will still get a stadium (The Record) The state agency that oversees the Meadowlands Sports Complex expects the developer of the Xanadu entertainment venue to build a minor league baseball stadium, authority Chairman Carl Goldberg said Friday....more...Dick's Sporting Goods in race for prime sites (BizJournals) Dick's Sporting Goods Inc., the nation's second-largest sporting goods retailer, seeks to enter Greater Sacramento with at least five stores....more... Ravens' losses sack retailers' sales (BizJournals) The Baltimore Ravens' on-field woes have blind-sided sales at sporting goods stores throughout the region....more... Fitness gadgets (The Columbus Dispatch) Today's gift ideas are gadgets for the fitness buff....more... Borders Group Names Dick Lynch, President, Paperchase U.S. (FinanzNachrichten) ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Borders Group, ( Nachrichten ) Inc. has appointed Dick Lynch to the new position of president, Paperchase U.S., effective today....more... Borders Group Names Dick Lynch, President, Paperchase U.S. (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Borders Group, Inc. has appointed Dick Lynch to the new position of president, Paperchase U.S., effective today. He is based at Borders Group's Ann Arbor, Mich., headquarters and reports to Timothy Melgund, chief executive of Paperchase Products Limited, which is based in London, England....more... Organized shoplifting now big business (The Arizona Republic) Police, retailers and experts say thieves, many of them organized and tech-savvy, are costing U.S. consumers billions of dollars a year....more... The sky's the limit: Gifts that cost $100 and up (The Star-Ledger) For your dapper boyfriend: All the other guys want to be him and all the other women want to date him. Well, Mr. Cool needs to keep warm, too, but only 100 percent cashmere will do. Indulge him. Scarf, $124; hat, $100. RS stores in Westwood, Short Hills, Livingston and Shrewsbury....more... Zim vets in 'million-man' Mugabe march (Mail and Guardian) Thousands of Zimbabwean war veterans gathered in Harare on Friday to lead a "million-man march" in support of President Robert Mugabe's bid to extend his rule despite a severe economic crisis blamed on his government....more... |