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NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Jor-
in plans to keep a fresh imprint on
isketball after his playing days are
ver by overseeing a line of sneakers
nd apparel bearing his name for his
longtime sponsor Nike Inc.
The Chicago Bulls superstar has
[ready added millions of dollars to
like’s bottom line as well as his own
ank account with sales over the past
3 years of his signature Air Jordan
aoes and clothing.
But with the end of Jordan’s career
lossibly only a few years away, the
ation’s biggest athletic shoe mar-
eterhas come up with a way for Jor-
,an to keep his hand in the game and
is image on the shoes worn on
iourt.
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debuts in November, and Jordan said
introductions will be timed for a Sat
urday so children won’t miss school
to get them. He said shoes in the Jor
dan line will be priced as low as $90
to make them more affordable.
The most expensive shoe sold by
the new Nike division will be the $150
Air Jordan, which has a 3-D hologram
on the heel and quilting on the sides.
Jordan told a news conference at
New York’s Niketown store, where
some of his new fashions were mod
eled, that he expects to be heavily in
volved in designing the shoes and ap
parel. He said that will be an outlet for
his creative ambitions and competi
tiveness.
In addition to Jordan, other play
ers wearing the Jordan brand this
season will include Eddie Jones of the
Los Angeles Lakers, Yin Baker and
Ray Allen of the Milwaukee Bucks,
Michael Finley of the Dallas Maver
icks and Derek Anderson of the
Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Jordan brand will also be
worn by teams at three colleges —
Cincinnati, St. John’s and North Car
olina A&T.
The shoes and apparel ranging
from sweatshirts and shorts to hats
will feature the Jumpman logo — a
silhouette of Jordan stretched to the
maximum as he drives to dunk a bas
ketball through the hoop.
The financial terms of the deal
with Jordan were not disclosed but
people familiar with it said it includes
royalty payments
based on sales.
Jordan is al
ready tops among
athletes in en
dorsement fees.
The Sports Mar
keting Letter esti
mated his endorse
ment deals —
ranging from
Wheaties cereal,
Ballpark Franks and Gatorade to
Hanes underwear, Rayovac batteries
and Bijan fragrances — should gen
erate $40 million this year.
That includes an estimated $17
million to $18 million from Nike for
the Air Jordan line alone, the newslet
ter’s publisher Brian Murphy said.
Golfer Tiger Woods is second with
about $25 million in endorsement
earnings lined up for this year, ac
cording to the newsletter.
Jordan’s endorsement total is in
Jordan
addition to the $33 million he will
make playing basketball for the Bulls
this year. That makes him the high
est-paid athlete in team sports as
well.
Asked on NBC’s “Today” show on
Tuesday morning whether this sea
son would be his last, Jordan said “I
don’t think so.”
Jordan, who has led the Bulls to
five NBA championships in the
1990s, said the most important thing
right now is a sixth title
“I think we are going to win again
and go for seven,” he said.
Nike is a heavyweight in the shoe
business as well. It accounted for
about 58 percent of the $1.3 billion
market for basketball shoes last year,
according to Diane Daggatt, analyst
for the securities firm Dain Bosworth
in Seattle.
She said Nike hopes the broad
ened Jordan line would help it cap
ture 90 percent of the basketball mar
ket by the year 2000.
“It’s good positioning for Nike to
feature Jordan separately,” she said.
The Air Jordan line alone gener
ates about $250 million in shoe and
apparel sales a year, Nike officials
say.
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ninds, and he may soon have its richest deal —
eportedly a seven-year, $60 million contract.
The Philadelphia Flyers, however, deny such
n agreement is imminent.
“Unfortunately, the Flyers and Eric are not as
sed books s oallose to agreement as the media has speculated,”
dishes, team said today.
( “Since Eric still has another season remaining
nder his current contract, we anticipate his full
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Lindros is the cornerstone of a Flyers revival
in which the team went from missing the playoffs
for five straight years to the Stanley Cup finals last
season.
Both Carl Lindros, the player’s father-agent,
and the Flyers’ negotiating team of president Ed
Snider and general manager Bob Clarke set the
start of training camp as the deadline for a new
deal, and seemingly hashed out all but the final
details in a five-hour conference that ended
Monday.
Now it appears that the negotiations hit a
snag. One hangup — Lindros’ desire for legal ac
tion against a Philadelphia radio station that re
ported he missed a game last season because of
a hangover — apparently has been resolved.
Carl Lindros said he and the Flyers would take
a common approach to the libel suit he wants to
press against station WIP
A new deal would be a handsome reward for
a player many picked for greatness as an over
sized teenager in Canada. His early stature as the
game’s next great player allowed him to dictate
conditions of his employment.
First, Lindros forced the junior hockey team
that had his rights to trade them to a city closer to
his home. Then he forced the Quebec Nordiques,
who made him the top pick in the 1990 draft, to
trade him when he refused to play there.
The Nordiques traded Lindros to both the Fly
ers and the New York Rangers, touching off a dis
pute that ended when an arbitrator ruled in favor
of Philadelphia.
The Flyers acquired the rights to Lindros for
six players, two draft choices and $15 million.
Winner of the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s MVP
in 1994-95, Lindros had 32 goals and 47 assists in
52 games last season and added 12 goals and 14
assists in 19 playoff games.
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Sports Briefs
Bennett pleads guilty
to sexual assault charge
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Atlanta Falcons line
backer Cornelius Bennett pleased guilty to sex
ual misconduct Tuesday and could face up to a
year in jail.
Bennett, former
ly with the Buffalo
Bills, will be sen
tenced Oct. 28. City
judge Robert Rus
sell Jr. released
Bennett on his own
recognizance on
the condition he
stay away from the victim, a Buffalo woman in
her 20s.
Bennett made no comment as he left the
courtroom. His attorneys, James Shaw and
Joseph Shaw, said he pleaded guilty as charged
because he wanted to “put this matter behind
him” and get on with his professional and per
sonal life. His wife is expecting a baby.
Erie County district attorney Frank Clark said
the victim was satisfied with the guilty plea.
The charge stems from a meeting in the Hy
att Regency Buffalo May 18. The woman, whom
Bennett has known for a long time, accompanied
Former Penguin Lemieux
enters Hall of Fame
TORONTO (AP) — Mario Lemieux and Bryan
Trottier, teammates on the Pittsburgh Penguins’
Stanley Cup-winning teams in 1991 and 1992,
were elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame on
Tuesday.
Edmonton Oilers general manager was hon
ored in the builder’s category, with all three to
be inducted Nov. 17.
Lemieux overcame Hodgkin’s disease and a
serious back injury during his extraordinary 12-
year career. His election comes without the usu
al three-year wait. The Hall cited his “outstand
ing pre-eminence and skill” in waiving waiting
period.
. “I think it’s fantastic,” Montreal’s Mark Rec-
chi, a former linemate of Lemieux, said Tuesday.
“If anybody, he deserves it. ... He made hockey
in Pittsburgh.”
The Hall has inducted eight other players without
the normal waiting period: Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe,
Jean Beliveau, Terry Sawchuk, Red Kelly, Ted Lind
say, Maurice Richard and Dit Clapper.
Lemieux finished with 613 career goals and
1,494 points. He captured three Hart Trophies
(league MVP), six Art Ross Trophies (top scorer) and
two Conn Smythe Trophies (playoff MVP).
Trottier was brilliant in his own right. He won six
Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders and Pen
guins during an 18-year career. He scored 524
goals and had 1,425 points in 1,279 regular sea
son games. He won the Calder, Hart, Art Ross and
Conn Smythe Trophies.
Sather, entering his 19th
year as Edmonton’s GM,
built the Oilers into a power
house in the 1980s. With
players such as Wayne Gret
zky, Mark Messier, Paul Cof
fey and Grant Fuhr, the Oilers
won five Stanley Cups.
Also to be honored with
Lemieux, Trottier and Sather
will be Hockey News founder
Ken McKenzie, who won the Elmer Ferguson
Memorial Award, and longtime Philadelphia Fly
ers radio voice Gene Hart, the winner of the Fos
ter Hewitt Memorial Award.
Thirteen nominees — including four players
— were considered for this year’s Hall of Fame
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