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Under Armour Inc. is a Baltimore-based company that manufactures and sells performance athletic apparel designed to wick sweat away from the body. Under Armour gear -- including shirts, jackets, socks, gloves, headwear and cleats -- was orginally marketed to football players, but the distinct Under Armour logo is now sported by athletes in all sports. The company has specific lines aimed at youth athletes and women and also sells light-weight apparel for cold weather known as Under Armour ColdGear. Under Armour was founded in 1996 by Kevin Plank, a former football player for the University of Maryland, who was looking for an alternative to the heavy, sweat-drenched cotton T-shirt he wore und...
Under Armour Inc. is a Baltimore-based company that manufactures and sells performance athletic apparel designed to wick sweat away from the body. Under Armour gear -- including shirts, jackets, socks, gloves, headwear and cleats -- was orginally marketed to football players, but the distinct Under Armour logo is now sported by athletes in all sports. The company has specific lines aimed at youth athletes and women and also sells light-weight apparel for cold weather known as Under Armour ColdGear. Under Armour was founded in 1996 by Kevin Plank, a former football player for the University of Maryland, who was looking for an alternative to the heavy, sweat-drenched cotton T-shirt he wore under his football jersey. In his first year, 1996, Plank sold about $17,000 worth of items; in 2006, the company's revenue exceeded $467 million. Under Armour gained popularity with a 2002 commercial in which a muscle-bound football player implored teammates to "protect this house!" The catch-phrase became a rallying cry for athletes, including the Baltimore Ravens, and helped propel Under Armour into the big leagues of sportswear sales alongside Nike, Reebok and others. Under Armour became a publicly traded company in 2005 and is listed on the Nasdaq stock market. In 2007, Under Armour opened its first retail store, in Annapolis, Md.
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Maryland's Smith a bright spot in loss
- With Maryland losing its fifth game in a row, at least Terps fans could focus Saturday on the achievements of Torrey Smith, the star of this season's team. Smith had already broken his own Atlantic Coast Conference mark earlier this year for single-...Tags: U.S. Military, Virginia Tech, Colleges and Universities, Nike Incorporated, Defense
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Terps say their new quarterback 'can do it'
Jamarr Robinson didn't see Maryland quarterback Chris Turner go down.
Turner, who had just suffered a knee-ligament injury, was lying on his back on the Carter-Finley Stadium field with his hands over his face in the second quarter of Maryland's 38-31...Tags: Virginia Tech, Ralph Friedgen, C.J. Brown
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A wrenching choice
For more than a century, Black & Decker has been a part of the Maryland business community, and so this week's announcement that a planned merger with rival toolmaker The Stanley Works will mean the loss of a corporate headquarters and 250 high-paying...Tags: Biotechnology, Colleges and Universities, Technology, Startups, National Institutes of Health
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St. Thomas' Riggs, Joyner named All-Americans
For the second time in a week, two St. Thomas Aquinas football players have been named All-Americans. On Thursday, defensive backs Lamarcus Joyner and Cody Riggs received their jerseys for the Under Armour All-American game. Kicker Mike Palardy and...Tags: U.S. Army, Defense, Armed Forces
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Winning Is Par For The Course For Alliance Golfer
Staff WriterAlliance Ohio - Tiana Jones says she started playing golf when she was three. "After my dad put me in a high chair I wanted to play golf, I was like practicing every day" Her father, Paul Jones, says his wife was a club champion for 19 years and he...Tags: Ohio State University
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Nike's Phil Knight can save the day for UCF Knights
It is time for the white Knight — Phil Knight — to swoosh in on his giant pair of Air Jordans and rescue UCF from the tyranny of adidas.
It is the least Knight, the chairman of Nike, can do after adidas punted earlier this week on the $3...Tags: Sports Illustrated (magazine), Kirk Speraw, Colleges and Universities, Tim Tebow, Michael Jordan
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UCF-adidas 'shoegate' flap might end up in court
Sentinel Staff WriterThe impact of UCF's messy divorce from adidas still is being calculated. The university is awaiting official word that its relationship with the shoe company is over. Adidas informed the Orlando Sentinel on Wednesday night that it was ending its long-...Tags: Kirk Speraw, Colleges and Universities, Nike Incorporated, Michael Jordan, University of Central Florida
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Shoegate puts UCF on the map
Running off at the typewriter ... UCF plays No. 2-ranked Texas in football today and all anybody nationally wants to talk about is the UCF basketball program losing a $3 million apparel deal because of Michael Jordan's son. Call me crazy, but I'm...Tags: Kirk Speraw, Colleges and Universities, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Grant Hill, Nike Incorporated
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Under Armour 3Q profit up on apparel, footwear sales
Baltimore sports apparel company Under Armour said Tuesday morning that third quarter profit increased because of sales of apparel and footwear. Net income rose 2 percent to $26.2 million, or 52 cents per share, for the quarter ended Sept. 30. That was...Tags: Sales
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Friedgen will discuss QB plans with Turner
- Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen said Tuesday that he is worried senior quarterback Chris Turner misunderstood comments the coach made indicating he might play two of his younger quarterbacks this season.
"I'm going to talk to Chris. I think he...Tags: Virginia Tech, U.S. Military, Colleges and Universities, Veterans Day, Ralph Friedgen
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A greener Running Festival cleanup
By the time the last of the runners completed Saturday's Baltimore Running Festival, there was hardly any evidence of the many water bottles, used cups and waste that pile up at the finish line. That's because volunteers such as 10-year-old Justin Thiels...Tags: Public Employees, Athletics, Track and Field, Government, Labor Legislation, Marathon
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Under Armour president looking forward to challenges
When David W. McCreight took over as president of Under Armour more than a year ago, he came to a company that in many ways was the polar opposite from where he was working at Lands' End.
Lands' End was nearly a half-century old with roots in the catalog...Tags: Morningstar Incorporated, National Government, Government, Weaponry, Stock Market
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