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...final scene of “Prefontaine,” perhaps the most poignant film ever made about Steve Prefontaine, Coach Bill Bowerman ends his heart-wrenching eulogy about the great distance runner’s career by saying: “Pre ran every race like it was his last. Well, this is his last. This is the bell lap for Steve Prefontaine.” The camera then cuts to a hearse driving around the track of at Oregon’s Hayward Field while a chant of “Pre! Pre! Pre!” crescendos...
STEPPING DOWN. PHIL KNIGHT, 66, marketing guru, as CEO and daily manager of Oregon-based Nike, the $21 billion company he co-founded in 1972 and transformed into the world's biggest athletic shoe company; effective next month. Knight and Bill Bowerman, now deceased, started out in 1962, making soles with Bowerman's waffle iron. Knight, who will retain the title of chairman, will be replaced by William Perez, the CEO of S.C. Johnson...
...STEPPING DOWN. PHIL KNIGHT, 66, Nike co-founder and master marketer; as CEO of the world's biggest athletic-shoe company, effective next month; in Beaverton, Oregon. Knight and the late Bill Bowerman started out in the 1960s making soles with a waffle iron and selling the shoes out of a car trunk. Knight, who will remain chairman, will be replaced by William Perez, CEO of S.C. Johnson...
DIED. BILL BOWERMAN, 88, track coach and Nike co-founder, who sparked the '70s jogging boom; in Fossil, Ore. In 24 years at the University of Oregon, Bowerman coached Steve Prefontaine and the 1972 Olympic team, and used his wife's waffle iron to develop Nike's revolutionary running sole...