Swoosh! Inside Nike on CNBC next Tuesday

If you are into the shoe business and the business world or Nike, be sure to check out a brand new original CNBC production on Nike, premiering on Tuesday February 12, 2008, at 10pm eastern (7pm pacific), and repeating at three hours later. If you miss those airings, it will air a couple more times later in the week.

The program description? An examination of Nike's success including how it makes and markets its products, commentary from superstar athletes like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Bron Bron (LeBron James). Also featured is retired founder Phil Knight.

The documentary is one TV hour long, which means it's probably around 45 minutes or so without commercials.

Outside the Lines feature on Starbury and his shoes

The Sunday edition of ESPN's critically acclaimed Outside the Lines will be featuring a story on Stephon Marbury, his shoes and his new found causes. Among the topics will be Starbury's $15 shoe, in collabaration with Steve & Barry's University Sportswear, which are bringing out new budget priced lines with Ben Wallace and Venus Williams.

The guests on the Sunday 930am eastern time episode of OTL are T.J. Quinn, New York Daily News Investigative Sportswriter, and Scoop Jackson, ESPN.com Page 2 Writer, author of Sole Provider - 30 Years of NIKE Basketball.

Boo'ed in Vegas!

Featured Story: Props to the Las Vegas crowd! The Las Vegas crowd was booing Coach Ratface-K (all apologies to rats) during the team introductions of the State Farm USA Challenge on Sunday. Perhaps it was carried over from the Tark-era, or perhaps they dont like smug-rat-face :) Shane Battier also got his share of boos and JJ Overratedick got near-whisper boos. Bravo Vegas! Only in Vegas! To thank the city of Las Vegas, be sure to book your next vacation to Vegas ;-) Pictures coming soon. DeCourcy also comments on the game with emphasis on Kobe

Shoe Wars: Texas A&M switches to Adidas. The wild world of shoes and universities continues to turn.

New coaches, honeymoons, tea leaves and haters at A Sea of Blue

The CAA Hoops blog engages in napkin forecasting (predictions on the 2007-2008 CAA hoops season)

The 144-preview series at CHN continues with Nebraska, George Washington and Yale.

DePaul gets a big 7'2" center from a prep school. More at Recruiting Wars

Georgetown center Roy Hibbert hopes for gold (PanAm games)

Kevin Stallings video interview at Rivals (link opens a video application)

Thanks HillTopperHaven for linking to this blog! HillTopperHaven covers Western Kentucky sports. Western Kentucky is prominently featured on Fox College Sports (FCS) upcoming mid-major marathon on Sunday July 29, 2007. Nine games from the 2006-2007 season featuring mid-major teams will be rebroadcast.

Today's update is brought to you by 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!