NJ-based Integrated Sports Int'l (ISI) announced it
will act as the exclusive sports marketing rep for Bucs
rookie Warrick Dunn and NBA draft prospect Brevin Knight.
Dunn was the 12th overall pick in the '97 NFL Draft. Knight
was an All-American at Stanford (ISI)....Wieden & Kennedy
won 14 awards, the most among ad agencies at Wednesday's
sixth annual Association of Independent Commercial Producers
Show in N.Y. (N.Y. TIMES, 6/13)....In N.Y., Richard Wilner:
"Don't expect sporting goods retailers to do cartwheels over
the possibility that the Chicago Bulls will wrap up yet
another championship tonight. ... Sales of licensed goods
are flat and the perennial hot seller -- the NBA -- is
beginning to cool" (N.Y. POST, 6/13)....France-based Salomon
SA, the world's largest ski manufacturer, will open its
first U.S. design center in Boulder, CO, around September 1
(DENVER POST, 6/12)....After a N.Y. Times report that
reported possible mergers and acquisitions in the sporting
goods industry, JumboSports Chair Stephen Bebis said, "We
don't comment on industry rumors. Someone said, 'Are you
for sale?' I said, 'No. But if offered the right money, I
will think about it'" (TAMPA TRIBUNE, 6/13).
