A pair of Pre’s shoes from 1973 are going up for auction—and the bidding starts at $50,000. It’s been 50 years since America ...

Her stage, film and television work ranged from Shakespeare to "Sully" with Tom Hanks and "French Exit" with Michelle ...

He composed nearly 600 scores for the show and conducted the 35-piece orchestra that played them in the studio.

Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman. Public domain Everything was primed for Blue Ribbon Sports to take the next step, but they didn’t have a name for their shoes yet. It was Jeff Johnson, a marketing ...

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Phil Knight and his family were listed at No. 49 ... The company started out selling imported Japanese athletic shoes under the name Blue Ribbon Sports before becoming Nike in 1971.

His lawyer sent him the proposal letter with a heading that read “Blue Ribbon Sports,” Nike’s original company name, founded by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman in 1964. Adams said the letter ...

The two partnered to create Blue Ribbon Sports, a retailer for athletic shoes, which would turn into Nike, Inc. 12 years later. Since then, Phil Knight has always kept his roots close to home as ...

Nike was originally founded as Blue Ribbon Sports by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman in 1964. Knight had been a runner at the University of Oregon. Bowerman was a track and field coach at the school.

In 1964, Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman founded Blue Ribbon Sports as a distributor for the Japanese shoemaker Onitsuka Tiger. Knight sought to establish his athletic shoe brand as the company grew. In ...