Jason Hairston doesn’t fit the mold of the typical apparel executive. First off, he’s a former linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos who retired in 1996 after persistent problems ...

Jason Hairston’s professional career began in the NFL. But today, as the founder of hunting brand Kuiu, his name is more widely recognized among outdoorsmen. That wasn’t exactly his plan. Hairston ...

DIXON (CBS) - Another suicide connected to possible football-related brain injuries has left a UC Davis Athletic Hall of Fame member and former 49er dead. Jason Hairston was also the founder of a ...

Jason Hairston, founder and CEO of the KUIU hunting gear company and a former UC Davis football star, was found dead in his Dixon home on Tuesday, according to a post on the company’s website Thursday ...

High-end hunting apparel brand Kuiu (pronounced koo-you) is opening its first Texas store on the Dallas Parkway north of Galleria Dallas. Kuiu plans to open in October next to Dick's Sporting Goods in ...

For six years, Jason Hairston adamantly refused to raise any outside capital for his hunting gear company, Kuiu. He wanted to stay in control of the business and the brand. And frankly, he didn't need ...

Cult gear company Kuiu is outfitting a new wave of superfit, adrenaline-craving, tech-savvy athletes who are transforming hunting into the next extreme sport. And critics are taking aim. It’s just ...

Last month, big-game hunter Brendan Burns stood where few men, if any, ever stood before him. Seventy miles into a 10-day, unsupported sheep hunt in the remote Yukon, Burns found himself bushwhacking ...

Jason Hairston, a football star turned hunting gear CEO, is dead at age 47. The cause of death was not immediately known. Hairston was a star linebacker for the U.C. Davis Aggies in the 1990s, before ...

Former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Jason Hairston died Wednesday. He was 47. KUIU, the hunting company Hairston founded, confirmed his passing in a statement. "We are shocked and saddened to ...