Marketplace Roundup

Adidas Denies Company Is Already Printing No. 4 Favre Vikings Jerseys

ESPN's Rachel Nichols noted there are reports that adidas, which owns NFL jersey provider Reebok, “is printing up No. 4 purple jerseys" in expectation that QB Brett Favre is going to sign with the Vikings. adidas Sports Licensing President David Baxter denied the company has started to print Favre Vikings jerseys, but said, " If that does happen, we're prepared.” Baxter said the company has a "significant facility and inventory to support shipping jerseys out within 24 hours,” but it likely would not be the “amount that would be needed in the market" ("NFL Live," ESPN, 6/22).

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Wilson Golf GM Tim Clarke said that the company "will roll out the Wilson Staff FG Tour prototype irons" that golfer Ricky Barnes used en route to a second-place finish at the U.S. Open "to consumers in November at a suggested retail price" of $799. The company "might even sell the ... white painter's hat that Barnes wore all week" for $19.99 (USA TODAY, 6/23). Meanwhile, Nike has devoted the home page of Nikegolf.com to U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover. The site contains the text, "Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Resilience" (THE DAILY).

ROUNDUP: Boxes of merchandise featuring suspended Dodgers LF Manny Ramirez are "expected to arrive" this morning at Isotopes Park in Albuquerque ahead of Ramirez' four-game stint with the Triple-A PCL Albuquerque Isotopes. There will be "more points of sale for food, and the number of on-site police officers and security guards will be more than doubled" for Ramirez' appearance (L.A. TIMES, 6/23)....Colts QB Peyton Manning, Giants QB Eli Manning, actor Darrell Hammond and Donald Trump yesterday shot an Oreo's commercial for Nabisco in N.Y. (N.Y. POST, 6/23).