Word: cleat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shoe designers finely tune each category of shoe to its particular activity by studying human motion and physiology. Reebok's baseball shoes, for example, have a specially designed cleat pattern called SpeedSlot for fast starts and stops. Crafty Nike marketeers have also invented in-between products, most notably the cross-trainer shoe, designed for an all-around athlete. Cross- trainers offer enough lateral support for the sideways motions of aerobics and basketball but are light and flexible enough for jogging...
Whitley (with eight saves on the afternoon) and Panther netminder Liz Sobczak (with 12) saw their share of flashing spikes. In fact, the game was halted late in the second half when Sobczak received a cleat in the face...
...Crimson made that fact very cleat Saturday, toppling a University of Pennsylvania team that, on paper, was supposed to be much better...
...overall settlement bears the players' cleat marks. The compensation formula will seemingly have little effect on the owners' bidding wars, so the players should be able to maintain their bargaining power as free agents. Even so, they are slightly worse off than they were when the walkout began. Said Rusty Staub of the New York Mets: "It was a take-away strike. The players had nothing...