br>So I’ve always been a little on the fence about Dunks and I wasn’t sure why. After looking at these pretty tight Dunk Low CL’s in baroque brown/pink-white and black/electorlime-white I realize that it’s that damn off-color outsole that creeps half way up the white midsole. Both of these have a solid white sole unit [...]

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br>While Nike does love their hybrids, it is a little less common that we see them fuse a running shoe with a basketball shoe, both retros. (less common. Not impossible.) Well it’s happening this November, as the Nike Air Structure Triax 91 collides with an Air Jordan VI to create the Air Hoop Structure. The [...]

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The Trackrunners
“Pound For Pound”
Inhouse Records
As ideally everyone should know, Saturday May 2nd marks the superfight between pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and junior welterweight king/Ring Champion Ricky Hatton, arguably the biggest fight of 2009. (until Floyd comes back and, hopefully, fights the winner.) I’m an avid Pac fan, but I’m also a big fan of boxing-related [...]

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br>A couple of months ago Nike dropped a limited release of a very unique new shoe, the Nike Air Zoom Toki Lux, a sort of Vans Chukka-like silhouette in a perforated leather upper. Needless to say it sold quite well. Well next up in the same vein, is the Nike Air Toki Tier Zero. The [...]

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br>Yet another hybrid is coming out of Beaverton, this one scheduled for a late 2009 release. While I’m not sure if they’re billing this as a fusion, the Nike Auto Flight High takes the upper from an Air Flight Lite High and the sole from the Nike Blazer to create a … slightly different shoe. [...]

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br>I hate writing about anything apparel-related because it’s going to bump the obscene Jeremy Scott Adidas collection off the frontpage, but I guess a week is long enough, even for a collection that stellar. Anyway, this is a collaboration between Nike and Fragment design on a set of pretty slick Nike shirts. The shirt stays [...]

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br>Dropping this Saturday, May 2nd at the Nike Sportswear flagship stores is this really unique, classy kick: the Paule Marrot x Nike Skinny Dunk. The shoe is made in concert with Paule Marrot Editions, the famed French textile designer known for his striking patterns. Here, Nike has placed a Paule Marrot print over the entire [...]

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