Well now ND has a built in excuse when they go belly up soon in the Big Dance.
What was Under Armor's "sponsorship investment" in Notre Dame? What about in the New York Times? I bet there was a clause in the contract with Notre Dame that said something about trying to fish for news coverage.
According to Wikipedia, the Irish leprechauns "are solitary creatures who spend their time making and mending shoes and have a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow." The Irish are simply wearing the shoes and looking for that pot of gold. Go Irish! And for those critics of the Times who dislike side-bar stories like this one, lighten up!
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I realize the Times is desperately trying to adopt a more panache-intensive style, for which I do not blame them -- however, there is still such a thing as * perspective * : simply stated, some things matter -- and some things * don't * . -- In particular, we have more important issues with which to concern ourselves than the color of * anyone's * sneakers. There is one topic that literally stands head-and-shoulders above the rest -- and we all know what it is.
* Bigfoot * .
A rather large, putatively primate biped has supposedly been prowling the Pacific Northwest for generations -- but no one can say for sure whether it actually exists: in the era of Google Earth, this would appear a palpably insupportable continuing ignorance.
Let the Times deploy its reportorial resources in a manner more conducive to the serving of the public interest to which they declaim undeviating devotion, by sending a couple of serious foot-sloggers to the region in question, in the hope that they will manage to uncover the truth about this (currently) legendary beast. -- * Then * they can zero in on the collegiate coloristics of athletic footwear!
* First things first. * *
* Naturally -- if Bigfoot should be found wearing sneakers -- I'd like to know what color (or color * s * ) they are....
* Bigfoot * .
A rather large, putatively primate biped has supposedly been prowling the Pacific Northwest for generations -- but no one can say for sure whether it actually exists: in the era of Google Earth, this would appear a palpably insupportable continuing ignorance.
Let the Times deploy its reportorial resources in a manner more conducive to the serving of the public interest to which they declaim undeviating devotion, by sending a couple of serious foot-sloggers to the region in question, in the hope that they will manage to uncover the truth about this (currently) legendary beast. -- * Then * they can zero in on the collegiate coloristics of athletic footwear!
* First things first. * *
* Naturally -- if Bigfoot should be found wearing sneakers -- I'd like to know what color (or color * s * ) they are....
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Love the shoes and the Irish. Hope they can go out and chop down those Kentucky trees.
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Chuck Taylor must be twisting in his grave.
What a waste of space! Is the NYT NCAAM coverage is so saturated that you have nothing better left to offer us than this nonsense?
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They are called color commentary stories and as one who isn't following every single team, I found it an interesting one. Plenty of other space here for hardcore basketball coverage, so it is not as if this story bumped one more worthy in your eyes of coverage.
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The problem with this whole athletic shoe business is that it is using NCAA basketball to sell high-priced shoes to young people most of whom really can't afford them. The NCAA should ban such exploitative marketing using its teams.
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Really?
This is content?
Oh, sorry. I guess it is marketing...
How could I be so foolish.
And NYT will help in the promo.
This is content?
Oh, sorry. I guess it is marketing...
How could I be so foolish.
And NYT will help in the promo.
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Whatever happened to "All the news that's fit to print"?
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They look really cool to me. Sometimes a shoe is just a shoe.
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