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...commercial touts. Since its founding 21 years ago, Nike, the Beaverton, Oregon, sportswear conglomerate, has soared to greater and greater heights, becoming the $3.7 billion-a-year titan of the industry. The key has been Nike's endorsement contracts with such top professional athletes as Jordan, baseball's Bo Jackson ("Bo knows . . ."), football's Jerry Rice and, to a lesser extent, several hundred others. But as it has lavished ever more millions of dollars on such tie-ins, Nike has seen something else rise along with its profile and its profits: concern in the sports world about whether it exerts...
...names of any U.S. MIAs. Indeed, a covering letter on the document indicates that Quang, who at the time was commander of the 4th Military Region in central South Vietnam, was reporting to his superiors on the success of his mission. He emphasized his plans for Operation Ba Bo, a program of "extermination" of South Vietnamese officials. In this context, Pentagon and congressional experts say, Quang may have engaged in the military briefer's time-honored tendency toward overstatement and, like other North Vietnamese officials, may have included non-American members of various CIA-run commando teams in his accounting...
...parade continued, however--BU pitchers nailed Hill again in the fifth and plunked sophomore second baseman Bo Bernhard in the eighth...
...three unearned runs were all courtesy of an unusual catcher's interference call on BU's Taj Tedrow. With Harvard ahead 3-0, sophomores James Crowley and Bo Bernhard attempted a double steal. Senior Phil Andriola swung at the pitch, but Tedrow panicked at the sight of the men stealing and got in the way of Andriola's bat. Harvard Head Coach Leigh Hogan complained to the umpires after they failed to take any action and succeeded in getting the interference call...
...other lost opportunity was a fouled-off squeeze attempt by sophomore Bo Bernhard in the fifth, with Princeton leading...