That’s the headline of this Washington Post article: LAIXI, China — The workers in standard-issue blue jackets stitch and glue and press together about 8 million pairs of Nikes each year at Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co., a Nike supplier for more than 30 years and one of the American brand’s…
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For some reason I can’t find this on the Around the O calendar of upcoming events, but there are plenty of posters up around campus: Josh Hunt, author of the University of Nike, will be speaking the evening of Tuesday, April 9 at 5:30 in 100 Willamette Hall. (map) Come…
From Daniel Libit’s excellent college sports muckraking blog, UNMFishBowl.com. THE NMFISHBOWL PODCAST: JOSHUA HUNT By Daniel Libit For 45 years, college basketball featured two famous arenas dubbed, “The Pit,” one in Albuquerque, the other in Eugene, Oregon. In 2010, the University of New Mexico renovated its version of The Pit, University…
11/5/2018 second update: Lynn Frohnmayer: ‘University of Nike’ exploits my family’s tragedy to support a false narrative: To be clear, I think Frohnmayer was wrong to have UO join the WRC and I sent Knight a letter saying that at the time. To paraphrase Karl Marx, it’s capitalism and people…
10/22/2018 updates: OPR’s Think Out Loud has an interview with Hunt here. I suggest getting to Josh Hunt’s Tsunami talk early, before the lawyers steal all the good seats. You can get the Kindle version of The University of Nike Tuesday as well. Some more links: The NY Times: Persuade someone…
11/10/13, 10:31 PM update: The Wall Street Journal reports that the “fictitious” University Of Nike has moved to Alabama. Ouch. Still no denial from U of Nike spokesperson Jeff Hawkins. Buy on the rumor, sell on the news. T-shirts here. 11/10/2013, 12:31 PM: The Ducks lose a game, and our fickle…
9/13/2013: See below for rules and the Supreme Court ruling on parody. Email your entry to [email protected]. Entry #4: Entry#3: Entry #2: Entry #1: Soon to be valuable collectors item – the Original U of Nike cup: U of Nike coffee cup sales are lagging, probably because they are so damn…
8/30/2013: Thanks for all the U of Nike t-shirt purchases and google ad revenue: I’ve almost got enough money to pay Dave Hubin’s public records office the $225.56 they want to provide info on the authors of the admin bargaining team’s harassing “open letter to Professor Harbaugh”. Please help out. Buy a…
8/28/2013: A modest proposal from the RG letters. You know, President Gottfredson must have received hundreds of letters and emails from parents, students, and alumni about the new football Sweat Shop. Some enterprising reporter ought to ask Dave Hubin for copies, and for the responses. Just sell university to Nike…
8/20/2013: This man gets a t-shirt! Fortunately it looks like Kitzhaber responded to Knight by appointing a pretty reasonable UO Board. From today’s Op-Ed in the Oregonian: … When we deal with public funds, we debate trade-offs and opportunity costs. But we tend to ignore these issues when we deal with private…
8/18/2013: U of Nike shoes now available from Nike. Click here to order yours before the lawyers find out! 8/9/2013: U of Nike T-shirts now available! Click here to order from CafePress. $4 from each shirt goes to help UO Matters pay UO’s exorbitant public records fees, and maybe buy me a…