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...early. An art student in a loose Donald Duck T shirt and Carhartt work pants, Zhang, 20, has gone from occasional basketball player to All-Star consumer. He pries open his bedroom closet to reveal 19 pairs of Air Jordans, a full line of Dunks and signature shoes of NBA stars like Vince Carter--more than 60 pairs costing $6,000. Zhang began gathering Nikes in the 1990s after a cousin sent some from Japan; his businessman father bankrolls his acquisitions. "Most Chinese can't afford this stuff," Zhang says, "but I know people with hundreds of pairs." Then...
...finals nationally. The Chinese responded: sales through the 1990s picked up 60% a year. "Our goal was to hook kids into Nike early and hold them for life," says Rhoads, who now runs a Shanghai-based sports marketing company, Zou Marketing. Nike also hitched its wagon to the NBA (which had begun televising games in China), bringing players like Michael Jordan for visits. Slowly but surely, in-the-know Chinese came to call sneakers...
...first time ever in the history of Major League Baseball, or the NBA for that matter, a team down 3-0 in a seven game series came back...
It’s going to be a bad year for Jack Nicholson. First he rooted for the Los Angeles Lakers as they took their dramatic fall in the NBA Championships. Then on Tuesday he was spotted at the first game of the American League Championship Series (ALCS) cheering for the New York Yankees. Sadly, he’s picked the wrong team yet again. Because this year, another overpaid dynasty will take its last breath as the Boston Red Sox finally overcome their mental “curse” to beat the Yankees...
...drink. He'll smile. He'll laugh. He's easy to like." Ronzone was born bubbly, though he didn't take his act abroad until his college basketball career at Long Beach State ended, in 1988. At 6 ft. 2 in., he was too short to be an NBA prospect, so Ronzone played in leagues from Italy to the Philippines before becoming player-coach of New Zealand's Wonganui Wolfpack. Then, after an encounter with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, he became the first head coach of the Saudi national team. "It was right after the Gulf...