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more about #nike more comments → drifter1717: more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: finally! a link from gucci-sneakers.com. that's where i spend all of my non-Gawker Media online time... #shoes more » AzureTexan: "Oh, and his shoes were untied." Also unbeaten. #shoes more » Phintastic: the perfect footwear for the woman who's a lady on the court but a freak in the sheets. Steve Rushin just ordered his wife's Christmas present. #shoes more » Karlifornia: WNBA players don't wear those shoes for every game? Huh.. #shoes more » Juancho: Deadspin needs to start a feature, "This week in ill-advised chest tattoos". #shoes more » ScientificMapp: Wow, time flies. I remember when Marcus was just a wee little mistake from a loveless marriage. #shoes more » Karlifornia: A picture of an African-American basketball player for a team called The Black Knights, and no "Martin Lawrence" joke? I'm so proud of you, Deadspin... more » Fogg: I didn't know Michael Jordan and Horace Grant slept together. #shoes more » MarkKelsosMigraine: tj/ Look at the Deadspin pageviews today! AJ Daulerio makes Mike Florio look like a pile of puke! end tj/ #shoes more » Chris Hanson's Axe: You would think he'd be doing anything he could to fit in, not stand out. Or at least, use his connections for some greater good, maybe get the whole ... more » Gourmet Spud: "Your dad gives you shoes? Lucky." - Ron, John, Tim, Jim, Gary, Mary and Sherry Kemp #shoes more » David Hume: Regardless of what happens, being the son of a rich and powerful person, he'll have a life full of doors opening for him; his success is inevitable! ... more » MarkKelsosMigraine: UCF has an exclusive $3 million, six-year contract with adidas Charlie Crist crunched some numbers and reports this deal is larger than Florida's gro... more » DirkToberFest: How awesome do you think Marcus Jordan's life is? That guy has the greatest pick-up line at the bars. Hey baby, have you ever wanted to meet a true ... more » -
#nba
Cleveland's Economy Is Based On LeBron James
Cleveland has rejected a proposed 10-story mural of LeBron, because the Nike logo would constitute advertising. Instead, they'll keep the current 10-story mural of LeBron with a Nike logo. [Plain Dealer] -
#sneakers
Air Jordans Now Come In Running Shoe, Hooker Boot Form
The Nike mainstays have popped up a couple of times today, in fairly unique incarnations. Is there anything these iconic sneakers can't do? (Besides costing UCF their $3 million endorsement deal, of course.) More » -
#collegebasketball
It's Still Gotta Be The Shoes
Marcus Jordan, son of Michael and a freshman at Central Florida, wants to wear Air Jordans. UCF has a contract with adidas. This is the Sophie's Choice of the third millennium. More » -
#nfl
Getting Free Shoes Does Not Make You A Celebrity Endorser
Nike has been forced to admit publicly that they have not signed Michael Vick to a new endorsement deal, after one of his agents said they had. (They're simply supplying him with gear.) Gee, that's awkward. [USAToday] -
#lebronjames
So Now Nike Decides To Return The LeBron Tapes
The Swoosh has graciously decided to return the footage it confiscated from two journalists at the LeBron James Skills Academy, now that TMZ and eBaum Nation are a combined $8,000 poorer and the world has moved on. [AP] -
#lawsuits
Nike Just Steals It
A woman in California is accusing the King Kong of clothing companies of stealing her trademarked slogan. Thankfully, this is America, where large, filthy rich corporations don't stand a chance against your average Jane Citizen. More » -
#lebronjamesdunkedon
Kobe Bryant Bravely Declares He Will Not Be Dunked On By His 14-Year-Old Campers
The most appalling thing about the Nike Politburo's coverup of the LeBron dunk tape? Kobe Bryant, the league's foremost expert in the painstaking self-cultivation of one's image, gets to look sort of cool by comparison. Sort of. More » -
#lebronjames
The "Free LeBron James Getting Posterized" Movement Gathers Steam
We all want to see the footage of LeBron getting dunked on, but Nike squirreled away the tapes in its secret underground Portland vault, and all we do is bitch. But the Internet's premier trolls actually did something about it. More » -
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#lebronjames
Swoosh Denies LBJ Dunk Cover-Up, Unconvincingly
The flash, apparently official: Nike is now making the implausible case that the two hapless videographers at the LeBron James Skills Academy had flouted a longstanding, super-inviolate "no videotaping" commandment and therefore had to be frisked. More » -
#lebronjames
The Dunk Was "As Good As It Could've Been Hyped Up To Be"
Ryan Miller, the would-be Zapruder whose video of LeBron getting Tom Chambered was commandeered by a Nike goon, has offered a few more details about the incident. Namely: The dunk was awesome, and Bron-Bron was kind of a prick.
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#lancearmstrong
The Critic-Proofing Of Lance Armstrong
The ad you see here is the new Lance Armstrong spot for Nike, which would be merely standard-issue, inspiromatic marketing schlock if it didn't come so creepily close to suggesting that to criticize Lance now is to somehow enable cancer. More » -
#lebronjames
LeBron Gets Dunked On; None Of Us Are Witnesses
Word out of the LeBron James Skills Academy is that Xavier's Jordan Crawford turned the camp's host into his own personal Fred Weis, the sort of moment for which God created YouTube. Then along came Nike to confiscate the evidence. More » -
#lawsuits
Sportswear Company Outplays Nike, Loses Anyway
It's a classic underdog tale—an upstart company devises a brilliant product plan, employs pluck and good fortune to make their dream a reality, and takes on the big boys....and then is summarily crushed by a large, multinational corporation. More » -
#nba
Reebok Gives Shoe Contracts First, Asks Questions Later
Reebok belatedly discovers that they gave a shoe contract to a white guy with an "Air Jordan" tattoo on his leg. To be fair, it was Marcin Gortat, and no one wanted to look that closely. [Skeets] -
#kicks
Bring Out The Animal In You
Nike makes limited edition Teen Wolf shoe ... sweet. But didn't he actually wear Adidas? [The Slanch Report] -
#duan
Nike And LeBron To Cover All Of Cleveland In A Fine White Powder
I have seen some questionable game day promotions in my time, but the one that Cleveland has cooked up for their big Christmas game against Washington may just take the cake. More »
