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This excerpt taken from the DKS DEF 14A filed Apr 24, 2006.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

      Some of our stockholders who own more than 5% of a class of our common stock have registration rights to register shares of our common stock under the Securities Act of 1933. They may request that we register their shares of common stock with the Commission, and, if all conditions under our registration rights agreement are met, we must register their shares. We would be required to bear specified expenses related to those registrations.

      We owe entities established by the estate of Richard “Dick” Stack, our founder and father of Edward W. Stack, a balance of $40,000 as of January 28, 2006. The obligation represents the remaining balance on a $1,251,000 (the largest aggregate amount of indebtedness outstanding under the promissory note) in principal amount loan granted to us in 1986, payable at an annual interest rate of 12% in monthly installments of approximately $14,000 through May 1, 2006. The loan, which is subordinated to all of our senior indebtedness, may be prepaid, in whole or in part, at any time without premium or penalty. The loan may be accelerated upon an event of default, including default on any payment on the loan for a period of 15 days after notice, default in the observance of any other covenant, condition or agreement for a period of 30 days, the acceleration of our other indebtedness or our inability to pay our debts as they become due. At the time the loan was granted to us, we believed the terms were consistent with the terms that we would have received from an unaffiliated third party in an arms-length transaction.

      We also lease two locations from entities established by Dick Stack’s estate, one of which continues to operate as one of our stores and the second of which has been subleased to a third party. Our total monthly lease payments for the two locations is $20,000. We paid $240,000 under these leases in fiscal year 2005. The amount we are paying per square foot under these leases is comparable to the amounts we agreed to pay to unaffiliated third parties for other new leases that were entered into around the same time period.

      We entered into an agreement with Edward W. Stack and Richard T. Stack, dated November 12, 1992, which gives Edward W. Stack an irrevocable proxy to vote all of our shares owned (including shares acquired in the future) by Richard T. Stack.

      Kim Myers, the sister of our Chairman and CEO and a holder of our Class B common stock, is married to Tim Myers, our Director of Reverse Logistics, an employee in our Conklin, New York facility. During fiscal 2005, Mr. Myers was paid an aggregate salary and bonus of $122,375 for his services during the year.

      Mr. Newlin’s son-in-law is a shareholder of the law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll PC, which provided legal services in excess of $60,000 in fiscal year 2005 to the Company. The amounts paid by the Company to Buchanan Ingersoll were not material to the Company.

      On February 13, 2006, we entered into an Aircraft Sublease Agreement with Corporate Air, LLC (“Corporate Air”). Under that sublease we will charter for business use an aircraft owned by EWS, LLC (“EWS”), an entity owned by Edward W. Stack. Corporate Air, an independent airline charter company, has a master lease with EWS under which Corporate Air operates and maintains this aircraft, hires pilots and other staff for flight operations and also may act to charter the aircraft for use by third parties. During the five (5) year sublease term, we have the right to use this aircraft on a flight available basis for one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours for travel purposes. The sublease may be terminated on certain conditions as set forth in the

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sublease and terminates automatically if Corporate Air no longer has the right to operate the aircraft under the master lease. Under this arrangement, we will pay Corporate Air (i) a base fee of $150,000 per month and (ii) an hourly charter rate of $1,900 per block hour of actual usage. The hourly charter rate is subject to a fuel surcharge adjustment, as set forth in the sublease. Since the beginning of this arrangement until March 5, 2006 we have paid Corporate Air $300,000 under the sublease. EWS has no interest in the amounts we pay Corporate Air but is paid certain amounts by Corporate Air for its third party charter use of the aircraft.

This excerpt taken from the DKS DEF 14A filed Apr 25, 2005.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

      Some of our stockholders who own more than 5% of a class of our common stock have registration rights to register shares of our common stock under the Securities Act of 1933. They may request that we register their shares of common stock with the Commission, and, if all conditions under our registration rights agreement are met, we must register their shares. We would be required to bear specified expenses related to those registrations.

      We owe entities established by the estate of Richard “Dick” Stack, our founder and father of Edward W. Stack, a balance of $190,000 as of February 1, 2005. The obligation represents the remaining balance on a $1,251,000 (the largest aggregate amount of indebtedness outstanding under the promissory note) in principal amount loan granted to us in 1986, payable at an annual interest rate of 12% in monthly installments of approximately $14,000 through May 1, 2006. The loan, which is subordinated to all of our senior indebtedness, may be prepaid, in whole or in part, at any time without premium or penalty. The loan may be accelerated upon an event of default, including default on any payment on the loan for a period of 15 days after notice, default in the observance of any other covenant, condition or agreement for a period of 30 days, the acceleration of our other indebtedness or our inability to pay our debts as they become due. At the time the loan was granted to us, we believed the terms were consistent with the terms that we would have received from an unaffiliated third party in an arms-length transaction.

      We also lease two locations from entities established by Dick Stack’s estate, one of which continues to operate as one of our stores and the second of which has been subleased to a third party. Our total monthly lease payments for the two locations is $20,000. We paid $240,000 under these leases in fiscal year 2004. The amount we are paying per square foot under these leases is comparable to the amounts we agreed to pay to unaffiliated third parties for other new leases that were entered into around the same time period.

      We entered into an agreement with Edward W. Stack and Richard T. Stack, dated November 12, 1992, which gives Edward W. Stack an irrevocable proxy to vote all of our shares owned (including shares acquired in the future) by Richard T. Stack.

      Kim Myers, the sister of our Chairman and CEO and a holder of more than 5% of our Class B common stock, is married to Tim Myers, our Director of Reverse Logistics, an employee in our Conklin, New York facility. During fiscal 2004, Mr. Myers was paid an aggregate salary and bonus of $163,300 for his services during the year.

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