Nike Races Ahead of Inventory Pileup

By PowerOptions: The Nike (NKE) swoosh is one of the most recognized company logos in the world. Company co-founder Philip Knight even has the swoosh tattooed on his ankle. Nike takes full advantage of its moniker for marketing its products, as Nike continually augments and refreshes its product offerings and brands.

This summer, Americans fell in love with 12-year-old Nathan Sorrell, the chubby jogger who starred in Nike's "Find your greatness" Olympics commercial.

Winter Olympics chiefs insisted on Tuesday that the 2010 Games will finish with a balanced budget, sweet music for a country which reeled when Montreal needed 30 years to pay off its debts from the 1976 Summer Games.The overall Winter Games costs top two billion Canadian dollars (1.65 billion US), but the city of Vancouver had to step in last year and provide funding for the 875 million Canadian dollar Olympic Athletes Village.A further 955 million US dollars was needed for security.

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The London Olympics will play host to the world?s largest this summer. The top tier Olympic sponsor will be opening its largest franchise in the world, a two-story, 33,000-square-foot, 1,500-seat Golden Arches half the size of a football field at the Olympic Park (there will also be a separate in the athletes village). The restaurant ...

TONIGHT many Americans will watch the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) men’s basketball championship game. This particular match-up is especially compelling. A relatively small and unknown (though now repeat participant in the championship game) programme from the Midwest, Butler, will play a Northeastern goliath—the larger, more established programme from the University of Connecticut (UCONN). An aura of corruption adds to the drama.