However, just three months later, shares in JJB tumbled after Dick's Sporting Goods said it had in effect written off its entire investment.

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Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. engages as a sporting goods retailer, which offers a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment.

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Dick's Sporting Goods Chief Edward W. Stack bought out his father, Dick Stack, when Dick's Sporting Goods was two stores and more of a bait-and-tackle shop reflecting his father's fishing passion.

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