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...Bowl had long ago ended, but now neither Michael Jordan nor Nike decided to make an appearance. The Budweiser frogs had nothing to say. When the third quarter rolled around, I was already asleep on the couch. I awoke from my slumber to catch the fourth quarter heroics, but it just wasn't the same. Harvard's schedule might not allow me to return to my old ritual on Sunday. But next year, since I can no longer count on the advertisements to capture my attention during the Super Bowl, I will make time to stay up to date with...
...troubling prospect for other NBA franchises is that the Wizards could be rebuilt not only by Jordan but also by bagmen from his corporate sponsor Nike and his agency, SFX Entertainment. With an eye toward parity, the NBA imposes a salary cap on all rosters. Jordan's longtime agent David Falk, who was at the Chicago lunch, is chairman of the SFX Sports Group and presumably will soon be negotiating with the Wizards' top basketball executive. He'll have to; he represents two players on the Wizards as well. If Jordan is in trouble on the salary cap, will Falk...
McKean said Gear may have been prompted to go completely public because companies such as Nike have done likewise in the past few months. He said he did not know why Champion chose to release the information only to universities...
...other anti-sweatshop news, a worker from an Indonesian Nike factory who told a Harvard audience in October about poor working conditions has returned to work for the company...
...Nike fired the employee, Haryanto, after he attempted to organize factory workers, but the company has now reinstated him after he went on a 10-state speaking tour in the U.S., according to a press release from United Students Against Sweatshops, the national college anti-sweatshop organization...