Sporting goods stores fight for customers

Cutthroat is how one analyst describes the sporting goods retail industry with the major players Dick?s Sporting Goods and Sports Authority expanding with new stores even as Wall Street investors worry about sales at existing stores.

Last month, Sports Authority re-opened its remodeled Baltimore-area store at 8200 Perry Hall Blvd. giving the Englewood, Colo.-based company 10 stores in Maryland.