On Wednesday the Courage Campaign asked Nike to end their relationship with Manny Pacquiao after the boxer made statements against same-sex marriage. Nike spokeswoman Mary Remuzzi told Outsports: Any recent remarks made by Manny Pacquiao reflect his personal views. Nike is strongly opposed to discrimination of any kind and has a long history of supporting and [...]
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Nike hosts gay coming out day event highlighting straight allies
Read more from Pat Griffin on her blog. Last spring just after GLSEN launched Changing the Game, our new sports project, I got an email from Edward Tylicki from Nike. Edward is a member of Nike’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends Employee Network. Edward sought me out as director for the Sports Project because [...]
Tiger Woods’ new Nike commercial
Tiger Woods and Nike have released a new commercial featuring the voice of Tiger’s father, Earl Woods: Tiger, I am more prone to be inquisitive, to promote discussion. I want to find out what your thinking was, I want to find out what your feelings are, and did you learn anything. While some have criticized [...]
Video: College player dunks on LeBron James
Finally, the tape that Nike and LeBron James did not want you to see: Xavier’s Jordan Crawford dunks on James at the recent LeBron James Skills Academy. Soon after the dunk, it came out that Nike confiscated video of the event from a cameraman, claiming such video was unauthorized. This cameraman said a Nike rep [...]
Oregon Ducks new football uniforms
Being down the street from Nike world headquarters has its perks … and apparently its drawbacks. The ever-molting Oregon Ducks have again changed their football uniforms. This season they will have five different jerseys that they will wear: Black, green, yellow and two white. They’ve also thrown in some silver, for good measure. As opposed [...]
Mock Nike ad is anti-ballet, not anti-gay
Here we go again. Some art design student made a mock Nike ad that ran in CMYK magazine. The ad’s tag line read: “The only thing worse than going to the ballet is going to the ballet to watch your son.” Some gays apparently got GLAAD involved because the ad is supposedly anti-gay; Ted Rybka, [...]