"varsity letters for his track performances in 1957, 1958 and 1959. In 1977, together with Bowerman and Geoff Hollister, Knight founded an American running team called Athletics West. Before the Blue Ribbon Sports business that would later become Nike flourished, Knight was a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), firstly with Coopers & Lybrand, and then Price Waterhouse. Knight then became an accounting professor at Portland State University (PSU). Immediately after graduating from the University of Oregon, Knight enlisted in the Army and served one year on active duty and seven years in the Army Reserve. After the year of active duty,"
"and sports teams around the world sporting the logos. The Nike Swoosh corporate trademark was created in 1971 by Carolyn Davidson while she was a graphic design student at Portland State University. It was here that she met Phil Knight, who was at the time teaching accounting classes at the university. Knight had overheard that Davidson was in search of extra funds in order for her to take oil painting classes, so he offered to pay Davidson to do some freelance work for his company, then named Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS). Knight offered to pay Davidson $2 per hour (about"
"runner Oliver Skilton when he won bronze in the Continental European games. In 1959, the sneakers brand launched the ""Magic Runner"" with improved technology on ventilation to prevent blisters and build comfort. In the late 1950s, University of Oregon middle-distance runner Philip Knight was coached by Bill Bowerman, one of the top coaches in the US. Bowerman was also known for experimenting with the design of running shoes to make them lighter and more shock-absorbent. After attending Oregon, Knight continued his studies at Stanford University, where he wrote his MBA thesis on the marketing of athletic shoes. After receiving his"
"Chip Wilson Dennis J. ""Chip"" Wilson (born 1956) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who has founded several retail apparel companies, most notably yoga-inspired athletic apparel company Lululemon Athletica Inc. (TSX: LLL, NASDAQ: LULU). Wilson is widely considered to be the creator of the athleisure trend. In 2016 he organized his personal and business interests into the holding company Hold It All Inc. In 1979, Wilson founded his first retail apparel company, Westbeach Snowboard Ltd., which sold apparel targeted at the surf, skate, and snowboard markets. Wilson went on to sell Westbeach in 1997 and founded Lululemon Athletica Inc. in"
"for his athletes led him to develop a sole by pouring rubber into his wife's waffle iron, inventing the modern running shoe. After Knight decided to rename the company Nike and develop its own shoes, Bowerman's invention became the prototype for the company. The shoe made its debut in the 1972 Olympic Trials at Hayward Field with Steve Prefontaine as one of the early endorsers. Although Bowerman retired from coaching in 1972, he remained on Nike's board until 1999. In that time, Nike exploded into a multibillion-dollar company. Like his predecessor, Bill Dellinger's involvement with the University of Oregon began"
"goddess of victory. Blue Ribbon Sport was renamed Nike in 1971. Nike's ""swoosh"" logo, now considered one of the most powerful logos in the world, was commissioned for a mere US$35 from graphic design student Carolyn Davidson in 1971. According to Nike's website, Knight said at the time: ""I don't love it, but it will grow on me."" In September 1983, Davidson was given an undisclosed amount of Nike stock for her contribution to the company's brand. On the ""Oprah"" television program in April 2011, Knight claimed he gave Davidson ""A few hundred shares"" when the company went public. During"
"sana in corpore sano"" which translates to ""healthy soul in a healthy body"" and derives from Juvenal's aphorism ""mens sana in corpore sano"". Nike, Inc., originally known as Blue Ribbon Sports, was founded to sell Onitsuka Tiger shoes in the US. When Phil Knight visited Japan in 1963 shortly after he graduated from Stanford University, he was impressed by Onitsuka Tiger shoes with their high quality but reasonable prices. He immediately visited the Onitsuka Tiger office and asked to be their sales agent in the USA. After a number of years, their relationship crumbled and both companies sued each other,"
"brand crossed over to a more mainstream market. British Knights introduced Dymacel, their first technology shoe in 1991. The technology consisted of diamond-shaped green silicon cushioning embedded within a sole window. This was to effectively absorb shock by dispersing vertical impact energy into a horizonal plane while maximizing energy return. Dymacel maintains its memory after repeated compression. In 1991, British Knights signed on their first professional athlete to endorse Dymacel - Derrick Coleman of the New Jersey Nets. Coleman was the number one draft pick in 1990, he won the Rookie of the Year Award in 1991 while playing for"
"Riddell Sports Group Riddell Sports Group is an American company specializing in sports equipment for American football. It was headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois; in 2017 the company relocated to a new facility in adjacent Des Plaines, Illinois. The company was started by John Tate Riddell. Riddell first invented the removable cleat and then went on to invent the first ever plastic suspension helmet in 1939. In 2008, Dan Arment was appointed president of Riddell. Arment previously worked as executive vice-president and general manager of mass-market business for BRG Sports, Riddell's parent company, which is owned by private equity firm Fenway"
"ASICS stripes on the side of the upper section. These lines were the famous design icon on another Onitsuka tiger shoe, the LIMBER leather, now called MEXICO 66. In 1968, Blue Ribbon Sports started importing LIMBER UP to the American market. In 1968 their running shoes were the TG-4 ""Marathons"" which were all nylon uppers and flat rubber soles. They retailed for about $6.00. Their training shoe had an all leather white upper, and thickly padded soles, and was named the ""Cortez."" They also had an all around exercise shoe called the ""Bangkok"" and racing spikes. Blue Ribbon Sports had"
"Admiral Sportswear Admiral Sportswear is a British internationally recognized football, cricket and sportswear brand. It reached the peak of its success in the 1970s and early 1980s through a series of prestigious football team sponsorships. The Admiral trademark was created in 1914 by Cook & Hurst Ltd, a Leicester-based company, manufacturing quality underwear and, subsequently, items of sportswear. When England won the World Cup in 1966, Bert Patrick, the owner of Cook & Hurst Ltd, commenced manufacturing and marketing football kits.The kits sales were aimed at the juvenile market and through selling connections in the sports retail trade. Bert Patrick"
"after meeting Arthur Lydiard in New Zealand in 1962. In 1977 infrastructure and support was absent from the Amateur Athletic Union, the predecessor to USA Track and Field. Because of the demands for amateurism, young American runners needed to finance their own training and travel for competition. While scholastic and collegiate competitions took better care of student athletes, post-collegiate athletes were on their own, a demand was immensely challenging. Bowerman and Knight, who were runners themselves, recognized the situation that their sport existed in, so they decided to take the meager profits from their fledgling Nike company to try to"
"Zorba and Ritmo. The company was established in 1919 by the Feinbloom brothers as ""Knickerbocker Knitting Company."" The company soon signed an agreement with the Michigan Wolverines to produce uniforms for their teams. In the 1930s the company was renamed ""Champion Knitting Mills Inc."", producing sweatshirts. Soon after, Champion products would be adopted by the US Military Academy to be used during training exercises and physical education classes. Champion produced uniforms for all the NBA teams during the 1990s, and some NFL teams during the 1980s and 1990s. It has also produced sportswear for many major colleges. Champion was also"
"school. The school also benefited from a drastic overhaul of the entire athletic department's uniforms and sports apparel, which was spearheaded by sports apparel and equipment manufacturer, Nike. Nike's headquarters are located in Oregon and company founders, Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman, are alumni of the university. The appearance, design, and quality of the Nike athletic apparel and equipment at Oregon is regarded as one of the most appealing, popular, and unique merchandise concepts in college athletics. Additionally, the construction of multiple state-of-the-art athletic training and performance facilities on campus has drastically increased campus appeal to top-notch athletic prospects and"
"1989. http://www.dunhamssports.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/RonDunham.pdf Dunham's Sports Dunham's Sports is a regional sporting goods superstore chain owned by Dunham's Athleisure Corporation, with stores located in the Midwestern to Southeastern United States. The chain specializes in athletic equipment, clothing, guns, and other sports-related items. The chain has over 230 locations in 22 states, including Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The first store opened in West Bloomfield, Michigan in 1937 as Dunham's Bait & Tackle. It was operated by Ron Dunham in a"
"leagues in USA and Canada. The following is a list of the products made and commercialized by the company in those years: Starter (clothing line) Starter is an American manufacturer of sportswear, focusing on throwback accessories such as jackets and hats of major league sports teams. Starter's current licenses include MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL and NCAA teams. Since 2007, Starter has been a subsidiary company of the Iconix Brand Group. Starter was founded in New Haven, Connecticut by David Beckerman, a University of New Haven alumnus, to manufacture team uniforms for high school athletic programs. In 1976, the company entered"
"$14 per hour today) for the work that she completed. For seven years after its founding in 1964, BRS primarily imported Onitsuka Tiger brand running shoes from Japan. In 1971, Knight decided to launch his own brand of shoes, which would first appear as cleated shoes for football or soccer, and had a factory in Mexico ready to make the shoes. All Knight needed was a ""stripe""—the industry term for a shoe logo—to go with his new brand, so he approached Davidson for design ideas. He had asked Davidson to make sure the stripe conveyed motion and did not look"
"months after buying the brand, to BMB Clothing Limited, a Leeds-based company whose business includes Jeff Banks and Suit Direct stores. The company was founded in 1963 by Arthur Benjamin Sugarman (1925–1987). He was Jewish, the son of a salesman, born in Brighton. He emigrated to the United States in 1946, via Canada, and changed his nationality to American. He married the daughter of a Californian clothes producer and later returned to Brighton, where he established a shirt factory at 21 Bedford Square in 1963. Sugarman had realised that early 1960s London-based modern jazz fans were eagerly buying the Oxford-cloth"
"Harris, Bowerman published a 90-page book titled ""Jogging"". The book sold over a million copies and was credited with igniting the jogging phenomenon in the United States. The new crop of older athletic people contributed to the evolution of the sport of track and field to create a new division for these masters athletes. Due to the popularity of ""running"", Harris and Bowerman published a 127-page book in 1967. Athletics West is an American running team formed by Bill Bowerman, Phil Knight and Geoff Hollister in 1977. At the time, America had no definitive running program for young athletes to"
"the XFL wore a helmet made by the company. As of 2003, Bike was part of the Russell Corporation, which is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. In the first quarter of 2017, Russell Brands announced they would be closing down Bike. BIKE Athletic Company Bike Athletic Company was an American sportswear company with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. They invented the jockstrap in 1874 for bicyclists in Boston. The firm sold over 300 million jockstraps. The company later produced additional protective sports equipment such as multi-purpose knee pads, elbow pads, gloves and American football shoulder pads, and also produces uniform jerseys"
"Starter (clothing line) Starter is an American manufacturer of sportswear, focusing on throwback accessories such as jackets and hats of major league sports teams. Starter's current licenses include MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL and NCAA teams. Since 2007, Starter has been a subsidiary company of the Iconix Brand Group. Starter was founded in New Haven, Connecticut by David Beckerman, a University of New Haven alumnus, to manufacture team uniforms for high school athletic programs. In 1976, the company entered into non-exclusive licensing agreements with a number of professional sports leagues, paying royalties of 8–10% for the right to manufacture and market"
"the most iconic images of rugby union, and in 2009 was named the 5th best sporting photo by the Daily Mail's sports writers. He returned home early from the 1980 tour after leaving the field with chest pains in a tour match. Cotton was the Tour Manager for the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa. With Steve Smith he founded the clothing company Cotton Traders in 1987. In 2008 Cotton Traders was forced to pull out of Burma after an investigation by the Burma Campaign UK uncovered the company was sourcing clothing from Burma. Clothing exports generate significant income"
"fully apologize. Yeah. I'm sorry."" On November 18, 2013, Wilson was the subject of the Stephen Colbert show's segment ""Alpha Dog of the Week""; Colbert sarcastically criticized Wilson for his views on the influence of birth control and for having said that some women's bodies ""just actually don't work"" for his company's pants. Chip Wilson Dennis J. ""Chip"" Wilson (born 1956) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who has founded several retail apparel companies, most notably yoga-inspired athletic apparel company Lululemon Athletica Inc. (TSX: LLL, NASDAQ: LULU). Wilson is widely considered to be the creator of the athleisure trend. In"
"Reebok Reebok () is an English footwear and apparel company, subsidiary of German sportsgiant Adidas since 2005. Reebok produces and distributes fitness, running and CrossFit sportswear including clothing and footwear. It is the official footwear and apparel sponsor for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), CrossFit, Spartan Race, and Les Mills. In 1958, Reebok was established as a companion company to J.W. Foster and Sons, founded in 1895 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. From 1958 until 1986, all Reebok apparel featured with the UK flag. The Union Jack is featured on Reebok's ""Classic"" line of apparel. The company's global headquarters are located in"
"genuine, customer-education focus, but has been questioned as to whether it truly practices what it preaches. Key competitors include Athleta, Nike and Under Armour. The company was founded in 1998 by Chip Wilson in Vancouver, British Columbia, and sold its first pair of yoga pants that year. In 2005, Wilson brought in investors to help oversee the company's initial public offering, including former Reebok executive Robert Meers. Lululemon launched its IPO in July 2007, and raised $327.6 million after selling 18.2 million shares. Christine Day, a former co-president of Starbucks International, became chief executive officer in June 2008. In 2013,"
"AFL (under the Sherrin Brand). Russell Brands Russell Brands, LLC, headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is an American manufacturer of sports equipment, which markets its products under many brands and subsidiaries, including Russell Athletic (its flagship brand) and Spalding. Formerly a publicly traded company, Russell Brands has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 2006. The original ""Russell Manufacturing Company"", founded by Benjamin Russell in Alexander City, Alabama, in 1902, became ""Russell Corporation"" in 1973, under the presidency of Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr., who had taken over in 1968. By 1990, the company owned and operated 13 sewing"
"""http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3007030"" 4. The Pioneers http://i54.tinypic.com/2ic32ua.jpg Athletics West Athletics West (frequently abbreviated in results as AW) was an American running team formed in 1977 by Bill Bowerman, Phil Knight and Geoff Hollister. During the 1970s, a definitive running program for young athletes to continue competing outside of college did not exist in the United States (U.S.). The formation and success of Athletics West, together with the success and popularity of American runners like Craig Virgin (charter member), Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers, helped inspire the 1970s running boom. Bowerman helped to popularize the concept of jogging in the U.S."
"Pump. The footwear collection was released as a men's basketball shoe and the world's first fully adjustable fit controlled with manual air allocation. The Reebok Ventilator, a line of lightweight athletic shoes with vented side panels, was first introduced in 1990. In 1996, Reebok signed a $50 million endorsement deal with Allen Iverson when he signed with the Philadelphia 76ers. Iverson collaborated with Reebok during his contract to create the second-longest running basketball shoe line in history, beginning with the Question shoe in '96 and ending with Answer XIV. In 2010, the brand released Reebok Zig, an athletic footwear technology"
"that has design elements from a uniform from the past but is in itself a completely new and different design due to cosmetic adjustments. An example of this is the current Buffalo Bills NFL team uniforms that feature helmets resembling the team's white helmets from the 1970s but with a different, more modern looking stripe design. Throwbacks were introduced in the NFL in 1991 at retail through the NFL Throwbacks Collection. The rights to produce the vintage apparel was limited to six apparel licensees, including Tiedman & Company Sportswear (exclusive to jerseys), Riddell (helmets), Starter (caps), Nutmeg Mills (sweatshirts), and"
"confirmed hand injuries (cuts) caused by the microfiber ball. The Players' Association had filed a suit on behalf of the players against the NBA over the new ball. As of the 2017–18 season, the NBA team jerseys are manufactured by Nike, replacing the previous supplier, Adidas. All teams will wear jerseys with the Nike logo except the Charlotte Hornets, whose jerseys will instead have the Jumpman logo associated with longtime Nike endorser Michael Jordan, who owns the Hornets. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began an investigation on July 19, 2007, over allegations that veteran NBA referee Tim Donaghy bet"
"Athletics West Athletics West (frequently abbreviated in results as AW) was an American running team formed in 1977 by Bill Bowerman, Phil Knight and Geoff Hollister. During the 1970s, a definitive running program for young athletes to continue competing outside of college did not exist in the United States (U.S.). The formation and success of Athletics West, together with the success and popularity of American runners like Craig Virgin (charter member), Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers, helped inspire the 1970s running boom. Bowerman helped to popularize the concept of jogging in the U.S. by publishing ""Jogging"" in 1966,"
"partnership, while Bowerman experimented with improvements in athletic footwear design. Bowerman stayed in Eugene, keeping his coaching job at the University of Oregon, while Knight operated the main office from Portland. Bowerman and Knight initially began importing the Onitsuka Tiger running shoes from Japan to sell in the United States. Initially, the partnership was 50-50, but shortly afterwards Bowerman wanted it changed to 51-49, with Knight having the higher ownership. He did this to avoid potential gridlock and have one of them be in charge of final decisions. Bowerman's design ideas led to the creation of a running shoe in"
"industry designers. In 1970, Bill Blass, whose fashion career began in 1946, founded his own company, Bill Blass Limited. Blass's wearable designs were designed to be worn day and night and he was said to have raised American sportswear to the highest possible level. Like Beene, he introduced menswear touches to his sportswear, which was described as clean, modern and impeccable in style. Kirkland commented in 1985 that sportswear designers such as Liz Claiborne and Joan Vass were no longer ""borrowing from the boys,"" but had begun making menswear too. In addition to the high-end names who produced apparel in"