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Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online While there was a time when athletes in so-called “contact” sports such as football took to the field sans helmet, today many sports – everything from baseball to cycling to hockey – now require competitors to wear the ubiquitous “brain bucket.” Even non-competitive athletes such as recreational skiers and snowboarders are told that wearing a helmet is a good idea. Helmet designs have of course also evolved over the...

CHICAGO, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The next evolution of football helmet technology has arrived: introducing the Riddell 360. From a brand grounded in gridiron innovation, the Riddell 360 highlights the newest protection and performance benefits, allowing athletes at all levels to elevate their game from the top down. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121018/NY95264 ) Elite players at every level are turning to Riddell for its helmet's enhanced comfort features and...

Call center coaching and skill development to be discussed with Chinese business leaders at APOE Topical Forum on Contact Center Series Houston, TX (PRWEB) August 20, 2012 Blinds.com (http://www.Blinds.com), the world’s largest online custom window covering store, announced that COO Stephen Riddell will be presenting at the APOE Topical Forum on Contact Center Series in Wahu, China on August 23rd, 2012. Attendees of Riddell’s “Secrets of a World Class Call Center” keynote program...

CHICAGO, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Riddell Sports and USA Football today announced a renewed commitment to educating athletes and parents about concussion awareness. Starting today every new Riddell football helmet shipped to retailers and customers will include a hangtag offering concussion education that includes information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Heads Up program. Riddell's concussion education hangtag is the first of its kind among sports...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) joins forces with sport entities and sporting goods manufacturers to launch the Youth Football Safety and Helmet Replacement Partnership, an initiative to replace 13,000 youth football helmets that are 10 years old or older and replace them with new helmets at no cost to the beneficiary leagues in underserved communities. The program, spearheaded by the...

Virginia Tech released today the results of its 2012 rating for adult football helmets that is designed to assess a helmet's ability to reduce the risk of concussion. A total of three helmets achieved a "5 star" mark, which is the highest rating awarded by the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings™. In addition to the Riddell Revolution Speed, which was the only helmet to receive 5 stars last year, the Rawlings Quantum Plus and Riddell 360 also earned 5 stars as the best available helmets. The...

ROSEMONT, Ill., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Riddell, the official helmet of the National Football League®, has reported that two of its newest helmets received the highest possible, 5-STAR ranking in the latest Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings(TM), released today. The Riddell Revolution Speed, the only 5-STAR rated helmet in the 2011 study, was joined by the Riddell 360, reviewed for the first time this year. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120104/CG29463LOGO-a)...

Call Center operations guru and author to share coaching, leadership and customer service. Houston, TX (PRWEB) April 19, 2012 Blinds.com (http://www.Blinds.com), the world’s largest online blinds store, announced that COO Stephen Riddell will be speaking at the Contact Center Conference in Orlando, FL on April 23rd – 26th (http://www.contactcenter2012.com). Riddell’s “Lemming or Leader: You Decide” pre-conference session will be an intensive look at how Contact Centers can...

Peter Suciu for RedOrbit Today the helmet is as ubiquitous to football as the old pigskin ball (which actually isn’t pigskin these days). However, there was a time when helmets weren’t worn, nor were pads or other safety equipment. The game was at one point in the early 20th century considered so dangerous that there were calls to ban it. And it actually took President Theodore Roosevelt to step in and help make the game safer. Of course now helmets are required in pro sports --...

CHICAGO, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP is investigating claims that football equipment maker Riddell marketed its football helmets as reducing or preventing concussions despite having no scientific or medical evidence to support the claim. Since 2002, Riddell has reportedly used safety, including concussion reduction as a key selling point for its football helmets, claiming that its Riddell Revolution helmet contains "Revolution Concussion Reduction...