SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

                                             

FORM 10-K/A

AMENDMENT NO. 1
                                             

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OFTHE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


For the fiscal year ended
January 31, 2004
Commission file number
000-20969

HIBBETT SPORTING GOODS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware
(State of other jurisdiction
of Incorporation or organization)
63-1074067
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

451 Industrial Lane
Birmingham, Alabama
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)


35211
(Zip Code)

        Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:

(205) 942-4292

        Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

None

        Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:


Title of Each Class
Common Stock, $.01 Par Value
Per Share
Name of Each Exchange on
Which Registered
NASDAQ Stock Market

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes    X      No        

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to item 405 of Regulation S-K (§229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of Registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. ___.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act.)

Yes    X      No        

The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant (assuming for purposes of this calculation that all executive officers and directors are “affiliates”) was $350,280,380 on August 1, 2003, based on the closing sale price of $23.09 at August 1, 2003 for the Common Stock on such date on the Nasdaq National Market.

        The number of shares outstanding of the Registrant’s Common Stock, as of April 13, 2004 was 15,594,323.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

The information regarding securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans called for in Item 5 of Part II and the information called for in Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of Part III are incorporated by reference from the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, to be held June 2, 2004. Registrant’s definitive Proxy Statement will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or before April 30, 2004.


EXPLANATORY NOTE

        This amendment on Form 10-K/A constitutes Amendment No. 1 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004, which was originally filed with the SEC on April 15, 2004 (the “Original Report”). We are hereby amending and restating Item 9A as it appeared in the Original Report.

        This Amendment only amends Item 9A of the Original Report as specified above. It does not affect the original financial statements and footnotes or other disclosures filed in the Original Report and does not reflect events occurring after the original filing date of April 15, 2004.

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PART II

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

        We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, we recognize that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and management necessarily is required to apply our judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.

        Pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-15, effective as of January 31, 2004, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that as of the date of our evaluation, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms.

        During the period covered by this Annual Report, there have been no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that have materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting.

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SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.



Date:   September 20, 2004
HIBBETT SPORTING GOODS, INC.

By:      /s/ Gary A. Smith       
Gary A. Smith
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

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EXHIBITS INDEX


+ 3.1 Certificate of Incorporation of the Company

+

3.2

Bylaws of the Company

+

10.1

Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 31, 2003, between the Company, Hibbett Team Sales, Inc., Sports Wholesale, Inc., Hibbett Capital Management, Inc., Illinois Hibbett, LLC, AmSouth Bank and Bank of America, N.A.

+

13.1

Fiscal 2004 Annual Report to Shareholders

+

21

List of Company's Subsidiaries

+

23.1

Consent of KPMG, LLP

31.1

Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Executive Officer

31.2

Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Financial Officer

32.1

Section 1350 Certification of Chief Executive Officer

32.2

Section 1350 Certification of Chief Financial Officer

+         Previously Filed

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Exhibit 31.1

Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Executive Officer

I, Michael J. Newsome, certify that:


  1. I have reviewed this Amendment No. 1 to the annual report on Form 10-K of Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc;

  2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

  3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

  4. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

(a)         Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b)         Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

(c)         Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

  5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a)         All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

(b)         Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.


Date:   September 20, 2004
By:      /s/ Michael J. Newsome       
Michael J. Newsome
Chief Executive Officer

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Exhibit 31.2

Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Financial Officer

I, Gary A. Smith, certify that:


  1. I have reviewed this Amendment No. 1 to the annual report on Form 10-K of Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc;

  2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

  3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

  4. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

(a)         Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b)         Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

(c)         Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

  5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a)         All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

(b)         Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.


Date:   September 20, 2004
By:      /s/ Gary A. Smith       
Gary A. Smith
Chief Financial Officer

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Exhibit 32.1

Section 1350 Certification of Chief Executive Officer

        Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as created by Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the undersigned officer of Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby certifies, to the best of such officer’s knowledge, that:

    (i)        the accompanying Amendment No. 1 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for the period ended January 31, 2004 (the “Report”) fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or Section 15(d), as applicable, of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

    (ii)        the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.



Date:   September 20, 2004
By:      /s/ Michael J. Newsome       
Michael J. Newsome
Chief Executive Officer

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Exhibit 32.2

Section 1350 Certification of Chief Financial Officer

        Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as created by Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the undersigned officer of Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby certifies, to the best of such officer’s knowledge, that:

    (i)        the accompanying Amendment No. 1 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for the period ended January 31, 2004 (the “Report”) fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or Section 15(d), as applicable, of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

    (ii)        the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.



Date:   September 20, 2004
By:      /s/ Gary A. Smith       
Gary A. Smith
Chief Financial Officer

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