Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly Phil Knight, co-founder and chairman of Nike, thinks so. His up-front money offer to Woods, if not equal to Jordan's current compensation from the shoe company, is huge by any standard. In his first pro tournament last week at the Greater Milwaukee Open, Woods showed up with a Nike hat and Nike shirt, while sports television covered every hole of his first day. When a kid becomes a pro, there is always the question of whether he can handle all the attention, let alone the demands of the game. At a press conference after he announced...
...this is routine. He'll smoothly give the longest speech we've seen. It's kids, he says. To help the little varmints, He'd pass a laundry list of tiny garments. Hope's back, he says; our future looks tip-top. He hopes himself no other shoe will drop...
...afternoon, under a bright sky in downtown Denver, as Dole and Kemp came onstage, Dole reached for his running mate's passing arm and raised it into the air, held it there, then held it there some more. This time Kemp let go first. Dole even did a soft-shoe shuffle to the strains of Soul Man and smiled at his running mate, who was clapping along. The two seem to be working out a little vaudeville act--Dole the straight man, Kemp the comic pratfaller. When Dole said he'd bet all he had that they'd win Colorado...
...Brooklyn. Laid off in March, he had disliked being idle back in Palermo, Sicily, but now he had had enough of America. He missed his wife Angela, 26, and their sons Giuseppe, 7, and Giorgio, 19 months. On Wednesday morning, he called Angela to ask for Giuseppe's shoe size and to tell her to expect him soon. He couldn't get on a direct flight to Italy, however; he had to go by way of Paris...
Some day soon a young girl will watch these Olympians on TV, women with college educations, shoe contracts and worlds of confidence, and she will dream that she, too, can play sports. That's how it will start...