Word: carolina
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Personal and team accolades, however, are nothing new for Feaster, a native of Chester, South Carolina who now resides in Houston, Texas. In high school Feaster led her team to the Class 4A State Championship as a junior, was a five-time All-State selection, twice earned South Carolina Player of the Year honors and was named a Parade All-American in her senior year after becoming South Carolina's all-time scoring leader, man or woman...
Joining Feaster on the Kodak All-America Team were Sales, Tennessee's Chamique Holdsclaw and Tamika Catchings, Stanford's Kristin Folkl, N.C. State's Chasity Melvin, Florida's Muriel Page, Old Dominion's Ticha Penicheiro, North Carolina's Tracy Reid and Texas Tech's Alicia Thompson...
Montreal 3, Carolina...
...become a spectator sport. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau lambasted the company in his Doonesbury strip. Filmmaker Michael Moore featured Knight in his latest excoriation of corporate America, The Big One. Nike has been accused of bigfooting its way into soccer and despoiling academics by paying the University of North Carolina to wear its wares. A long-standing criticism is that it uses extravagantly paid endorsers to sell overpriced sneakers to underprivileged kids. The company has been tarred by an image as a sweatshop operator that exploits Asian workers who make shoes and apparel for Nike subcontractors (see box). Nike's efforts...
Nothing, that is, but his fierce desire to win--and have fun doing it. McColl was famed for his success at poker when he was stationed at Camp Lejeune Marine base in North Carolina. More recently, he helped bring a National Football League team, the Carolina Panthers, to Charlotte. And he dramatically opened the new 60-story NationsBank headquarters in 1992 by having soldiers rappel down the building on ropes. (Local wags dubbed the structure the Taj McColl.) He went in the opposite direction on his 60th birthday, trekking up Kilimanjaro...