| Wednesday, June 19, 2019 |
| Author, advocate recounts getting through school with learning disability | |
 | LaDerick Horne was born with a learning disability. Delivering a keynote address Monday to the Innovative Institute -- a conference for educators Mississippi State University's Research and Curriculum Unit hosted at The Mill at MSU -- the author and poet said the disability greatly impacted his course in life. But, he said, his condition wasn't immediately apparent. "Initially, when I went to school, I didn't have any issues," Horne said. "Kindergarten was easy. Playing with blocks, coloring -- I was really good at that. But I started struggling when I got to the first grade." Horne's struggles were so severe he had to repeat the first grade. He barely got through second grade and in third grade, he said, he received his label as a person with a learning disability. |
| Country Music Trail Commission to honor 5 with trail markers | |
 | The Mississippi Country Music Trail Commission will honor five people with new trail markers during a ceremony at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19 at 431 Center Ave. in Philadelphia. The markers will honor Steve Azar, Jerry Lee Lewis, Marty Gamblin, Johnny Cash's "Starkville City Jail" and Jimmie Rodgers' Bristol, Tennessee music sessions. Azar, a songwriter, recording artist and music producer, is the state's official music and culture ambassador of Mississippi; Lewis, a Nesbit native, is known for his innovative and flamboyant piano playing style; Gamblin is a noted music manager and publisher; Cash's "Starkville City Jail" was written after the county music icon's arrest in Starkville in 1965; and Rodgers' Bristol, Tennessee music sessions, are known as an important event in the history of country music. Gov. Phil Bryant will join Philadelphia native Marty Stuart to announce the recipients. Expected to attend are inductee Marty Gamblin, Jerry Lee Lewis's son, Lee Lewis, Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill and Leah Ross, the executive director of Birthplace of Country Music. |
| Motion for rehearing denied in industrial park lawsuit | |
 | The Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied a motion for rehearing as landowners continue the legal battle against the Golden Triangle Development LINK over re-zoning for the North Star industrial park in Starkville. But those listed on the lawsuit say they will continue the fight to get the matter before the state Supreme Court -- a possibility proponents of the industrial park say is unlikely to be successful. The dispute over the area being rezoned from residential to commercial to manufacturing began in January 2017 and Circuit Judge Jim Kitchens later ruled in favor of the LINK and the city of Starkville, whose Board of Aldermen originally approved the re-zoning. LINK CEO Joe Max Higgins said he was pleased with progress after the ruling was announced Tuesday. Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill echoed Higgins on the ruling and expressed her hopes that the claim by the landowners has proven to be spurious, calling it a "dilatory tactic to harm the project." |
| Charter schools' use of local tax dollars at the heart of case before the state Supreme Court | |
 | Is it constitutional for local school districts to send their tax dollars to charter schools? That was the question at hand for Mississippi Supreme Court justices Tuesday. Attorneys from the Mississippi Southern Poverty Law Center and state Attorney General's office presented oral arguments to debate the constitutionality of the way charter schools are funded. The hearing was the latest step in a longstanding legal battle. In 2016, the SPLC filed the lawsuit on behalf of a group of Jackson parents who said the state's charter school law, particularly the issue of local tax dollars going to them, is unconstitutional and harmful to students in the Jackson Public School District. Tuesday's argument centered around a specific provision in the Mississippi Constitution which says that a school district's local funding, called ad valorem taxes, shall be used for the district to "maintain its schools." Although charter schools are categorized by the state as local education agencies, or individual districts, the local school district they are geographically located in sends them funding based on enrollment. |
| Rep. Missy McGee: We've just got to show our young people that they can definitely make a life for themselves here | |
| Missy McGee (R-Hattiesburg) is a relatively new face in the Mississippi House of Representatives. She just finished her second year and says, while her priority is funding and strengthening Hattiesburg and her alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, she also wants to focus on quality of life issues for families across the state. She has supported legislation requiring insurers to cover infertility treatment, bring home care nurse programs to new moms and slow brain drain through tax incentives. She made waves the last session by voting no on the six-week abortion ban -- the only Republican to do so. Erica Hensley, editor of Mississippi Today's Inform[H]er newsletter, sat down with McGee recently to talk about these issues. |
| Trump kicks off re-election bid that could extend key legal protections into 2025 | |
 | President Donald Trump on Tuesday night started his re-election bid, ending years of speculation that he might return to private life and opt out of seeking a second term that could provide him legal protections into 2025. Political operatives since before he took office have suggested the 73-year-old former real estate mogul and reality television host might tire of the grueling job of president, choosing to enjoy running his businesses alongside his children in Manhattan and his various resort properties around the world. He put an end to that talk Tuesday during a raucous campaign rally in Orlando, Florida. Trump and his team chose Florida -- which the president hailed Tuesday as his "second home" -- for the campaign launch as they seek to piece back together the same 2016 electoral map that put him in the White House. He won the Sunshine State three years ago over Hillary Clinton by less than 2 points, and White House aides acknowledge they expect another close result there next November. |
| City of Secrets: Estimated 10,000 people in DC are spies | |
| Every day, in the predawn hours, long before official Washington, D.C. stirs from its slumber, the quiet rumble of transit begins deep beneath the city, in the streets, on its waterways and in the skies. It grows, hour by hour, to a full-blown symphony of organized chaos, punctuated by voices, horns, sirens and motorcades, as the city of 700,000 swells to more than one million. Waves of civil servants, military and law enforcement officers, business people, students, diplomats and tourists saturate the city. That is the scene on a typical weekday in the world's most powerful city -- whose business revolves around secret meetings, information and documents. Woven into that orderly bedlam are sophisticated networks of foreign nationals whose sole purpose is to steal secrets. They are spies. "It's unprecedented -- the threat from our foreign adversaries, specifically China on the economic espionage and the espionage front," said Brian Dugan, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Counterintelligence with the FBI's Washington Field Office. |
| Why The American Shoe Disappeared And Why It's So Hard To Bring It Back | |
 | For Douglas Clark, the darkest part of working for Nike in the 1980s was watching American shoe manufacturing "evaporate" in the Northeast in a mass exodus to Asia in pursuit of cheaper labor. "As a true Yankee -- and my father was a Colonial historian -- you know, it was heartbreaking," he said. Clark would go on to a long career in footwear, at Converse, Reebok, Timberland, then his own line of shoes at New England Footwear. And there, he would devote eight years to one mission: creating a model to make shoemaking in America profitable again. This was a tall order. At a time when President Trump speaks of rebuilding American manufacturing, footwear is a telling example of how hard it is to turn back time. These days, 99% of shoes sold in the U.S. are imported, many of them from China, Vietnam and Indonesia. China's share has declined in recent years, but it remains a key source of America's shoes and shoe parts. That's why some U.S. footwear companies have been loud opponents of Trump's threat of more tariffs for almost everything imported from China. |
| FAA pushed to allow drone deliveries | |
 | Tech industry executives for years have promised that drones -- aircraft vehicles that operate without a pilot on board --- are the future of delivery. The small, buzzy aircraft have increasingly emerged in the skies above U.S. cities, dropping products including food and medical supplies at or near peoples' doorsteps. But mainstream implementation of drone delivery services is likely still years off, as industry leaders say the federal agency in charge of civil airspace is taking its time crafting regulations that will make it legal to fly drones for commercial purposes, including delivery. "The technology has moved quickly forward, and the policies and regulations have lagged behind," Lisa Ellman, the co-executive director of the Commercial Drone Alliance in Washington, D.C., told The Hill in a phone interview this week. The Federal Aviation Administration has, over the past year, allowed top companies to test drone delivery programs in urban and rural areas across the U.S. |
| The Midwest's Farms Face an Intense, Crop-Killing Future | |
 | The flooding that devastated the Midwest this spring damaged infrastructure and prevented farmers from getting crops planted on time. Though scientists can't say if one storm or one wet season is the result of climate change, so far this year's heavy rains are a perfect illustration of what scientific models of climate change predict for the region. And it's only going to get more intense. Those models warn that it's going to get hotter, and that rain will continue to arrive in increasingly intense spring bursts, leaving long dry patches in the summer. "We're fighting it at both ends in the Midwest right now. Too much too early and not enough late," says Evan DeLucia, a professor of plant biology at the University of Illinois. Right now, in Illinois and other states in the eastern part of the Midwest, most farmers don't need to irrigate their crops. But according to DeLucia's study, which analyzed how warmer temperatures would affect how much water plants will need, rainfall won't be enough to maintain today's yields as the planet heats up. |
| UMMC hosting public listening sessions in chancellor search | |
 | Members of the Board Search Committee, who are searching for the next chancellor of the University of Mississippi, will hear from the community on Wednesday, June 19th. There will be listening sessions on the campus of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. The board will hear from students, faculty, staff and alumni. The sessions are open to the public, but each session focuses on a specific constituency group. The sessions begin at 2 p.m. in room R153 in the Research Wing. |
| Wicker, Hyde-Smith Announce $1.2 Million Award to Alcorn State University | |
 | Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., on Tuesday announced the award of a $1,199,998 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to Alcorn State University to support the Be Brave Teach STEM project. Over a five-year period, the program will serve high-need schools in Mississippi by preparing undergraduate students to become science and mathematics teachers. "High-quality science and mathematics education should be available to every student, no matter where they live," Wicker said. "This National Science Foundation grant to Alcorn State will support the university's efforts to equip aspiring science and mathematics teachers with the wide range of skills they need to educate the students that need it most." "I commend Alcorn State University for its commitment to helping reduce the shortage of STEM teachers in high-need school districts in rural Southwest Mississippi," Hyde-Smith said. "This NSF award will support efforts to encourage undergraduate STEM students to pursue careers that will inspire more of our youth to embrace science, technology, engineering, and mathematics." |
| Nationwide demand for East Mississippi Community College turf and landscape grads | |
| All it took was one phone call for Trey Sansing to line up an interview that led to a job in the Texas city where he wanted to work. In fact, Sansing began work as an assistant golf superintendent at The Cascades Golf & Country Club in Tyler, Texas two weeks before his May 7 graduation from East Mississippi Community College's Golf and Recreational Turf Management Technology program. EMCC Turf Management instructor Danny Smith said Sansing's experience is not uncommon and that most graduates of the college's Turf Management and Landscape Management Technology programs are hired before they graduate. "There is a big demand in the field and we have kids getting jobs all over the country," Smith said. |
| 'Smokelore' is a tasty history of BBQ from UGA Press | |
 | A great deal could be written about barbecue, and much of it already has been. An online search for books about barbecue yields more hits than even the most fanatical barbecue enthusiast is likely to read in one lifetime. But this recent offering from the University of Georgia Press demonstrates there's clearly room for one more. In "Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America," Atlanta-based author Jim Auchmutey packs a vast store of history, culinary sociology and colorful anecdote into 266 richly illustrated pages. In the process, he delivers a thorough and entertaining discourse on a subject that has come to mean many different things, depending on where you are and when you happen to be there. And he recapitulates the lament of former Georgia Gov. Marvin Griffin as he mourned his failed 1962 bid to regain office: "Everybody that ate my barbecue, I don't believe voted for me." |
| Former U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson's papers going to U. of Florida | |
 | Former U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson announced Tuesday his papers are going to the University of Florida, where the "Nelson Initiative on Ethics and Leadership" is being established. "I have deposited my extensive collection of papers and other historical materials with the George A. Smathers Libraries, establishing a significant archive spanning over four decades of public service," Nelson, a Democrat, said in an email. As part of the initiative, Nelson said he will take part in a series of forums on ethics and leadership, with the first set for July 2. Nelson lost a bid for a fourth term in the Senate last year. He initially attended the University of Florida before transferring to Yale University. He earned a law degree from the University of Virginia and entered the Florida House in 1972. Nelson moved to Congress in 1979. |
| Two new bills take different approach to protecting U.S. research from foreign threats | |
 | Two bills introduced within the last month seek to address foreign espionage targeting academic research as Congress continues to pay more attention to this issue and collaborations involving China and Chinese nationals in particular have come under increased scrutiny. The Protect Our Universities Act, introduced Tuesday by Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, would require students from China, Iran and Russia to undergo background screening before participating in designated "sensitive research projects." An interagency task force led by the Department of Homeland Security would be charged with maintaining a list of sensitive research projects funded by the member government agencies. "This bill would require background checks of individuals who would be working on fundamental research that is intended to be published and made accessible to the public," Peter McPherson, the president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, said via email. "International students already go through a visa process. Creating another process would unnecessarily complicate research projects that will ultimately be published online and viewable across the world." |
| Texas legislation contrasts with DeVos take on campus sexual misconduct | |
| Last fall, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a proposed Title IX rule that many observers said would lead to fewer reports of sexual misconduct on college campuses. The state Legislature in Texas, however, has taken a starkly different approach. In the legislative session that wrapped up last month, lawmakers passed a flurry of bills that will put new pressure on colleges to address campus-based sexual harassment and assault. One demands that colleges provide more resources to students and survivors of sexual assault. Another requires institutions to annotate a student's transcript if they are asked to leave campus for a nonacademic reason. The third, and perhaps most consequential, would add new criminal penalties for campus officials who fail to report sexual harassment or misconduct to their institution's Title IX coordinator -- to the consternation of civil libertarians and some survivor advocate groups. They would face a misdemeanor and termination by their institution. Colleges would also have to compile and publicly disclose those reports. Institutions that fail to do so could also face fines of up to $2 million from the state's higher ed coordinating board. |
| Mississippi's fuel tax debate renews again between politicians, business leaders | |
 | Syndicated columnist Sid Salter writes: Speaking to the Delta Council Annual Meeting in Cleveland recently, United Parcel Service chairman and chief executive officer David Abney -- a Mississippi Delta native who leads the world's largest package delivery company -- strongly advocated increases in both federal and state fuel taxes to fund future highway construction and maintenance at a time when both national and state infrastructure stands in inarguable need to repair and improvement. Mississippi's 18.4 cents per gallon state gas tax (CPG) is a flat tax. When we paid $3.965 a gallon for gas in 2008, the tax was 18.4 CPG. When we pay $2.35 per gallon at the pump this week, the state tax is still 18.4 CPG. The only way the state takes in more revenue in gas taxes is for the volume of gas consumed to increase -- and automobiles are now manufactured to require less fuel consumption than a decade ago. The state fuel tax rates haven't increased since 1987, the last time the state was particularly serious about improving our highway system. |
SPORTS
| Mississippi State-Vandy game moved to Wednesday | |
| Rain at the College World Series has postponed Tuesday's first game and moved Mississippi State's game against Vanderbilt to Wednesday afternoon. First pitch between the Tigers and Cardinals was at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, but rain halted the game in the fifth inning with Louisville leading 4-1. It will resume Wednesday at 11 a.m. MSU and Vandy will play 65 minutes following the conclusion of the Auburn-Louisville game, weather permitting. The elimination game between Texas Tech and Florida State will follow, still set for a 6 p.m. first pitch. Peyton Plumlee is slated to take the mound for Mississippi State, while Kumar Rocker -- who threw a no-hitter in his last outing -- will go for Vanderbilt. |
| College World Series: Mississippi State vs. Vanderbilt postponed until Wednesday | |
 | Following rain delays Tuesday, Mississippi State's matchup against Vanderbilt has been postponed until Wednesday. The game will start 65 minutes after the conclusion of Louisville vs. Auburn, which was rain delayed Tuesday after the fourth inning. The game will restart at 11 a.m. Wednesday with Auburn trailing 4-1. Mississippi State in its opening game in the College World Series in Omaha on Sunday night defeated Auburn 5-4 in the bottom of the ninth in a spectacular come-from-behind effort. The Bulldogs trailed for seven of nine innings. But senior third baseman Marshall Gilbert then delivered a bases-loaded single up the middle that Auburn's shortstop couldn't handle, and that was the game. Here's what's next for the Bulldogs. |
| Adapt and overcome in Omaha | |
| The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal's Logan Lowery writes: Rarely does a week go by that someone doesn't tell me how cool my job must be. I admit that my job is way more awesome than most. But just like with any occupation, it does have a few drawbacks. One of those came into play on Sunday night, in Mississippi State's opening game against Auburn at the College World Series. For a typical college football night game, the Daily Journal might have an 11 p.m. deadline. But on a typical mid-June night, with a few exceptions, it's more like 10 p.m. That hour may not seem like much, but it does make it more difficult to meet deadline on just about any game beginning 6 p.m. or later. We have found ways to adapt. But given the significance of Sunday's game, I was granted an extra 30 to 45 minutes to get my story filed so that we could get it in the next day's paper for you fine folks to read. So just like every sportswriter on deadline, I began writing my story as the game unfolded so that it could be filed as soon as the final out was recorded. |
| NCAA should end its neglect of college baseball, bolster scholarship numbers | |
 | Mississippi sports columnist Rick Cleveland writes: This is written from the College World Series where a packed house of more than 22,000 fans pays to watch each game at sparkling TD Ameritrade Park. ... The tournament's 12-day run has an economic impact of more than $70 million for Omaha and surrounding communities. Motels and hotels are jammed at jacked-up prices. Restaurants and taverns are doing bang-up business. This is written a week after standing room only crowds watched both Mississippi State and Ole Miss play in NCAA Super Regionals, also televised by ESPN. This is written two weeks after Ole Miss, State and Southern Miss all played in NCAA Regional Tournaments in packed ballparks, all replete with high-priced, much-in-demand luxury suites. And you can see where this is headed. College baseball has become big business. Everybody's making money except the players, most of whom don't even get anywhere near full tuition at the respective universities. |
| Vandy whistler can be ejected for 'disruptive behavior,' ballpark official says | |
 | The Vandy whistler can be ejected for excessive whistling at the College World Series, a spokesperson for TD Ameritrade Park said Tuesday. "We are, as a building policy, reactive when we get a slew of negative comments or complaints, both online and in person," said Kristyna Engdahl, director of communication for Omaha's Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority, which operates TD Ameritrade Park. "Then we are obligated to follow our building policy, which is that we give one warning when we are able to address disruptive behavior. After that, we examine whether we take further action." The Vandy whistler, fan Preacher Franklin, said he planned to keep whistling at Vanderbilt's next game against Mississippi State, which was postponed by rain from Tuesday to Wednesday at 1:07 p.m. Franklin said he was warned three times by a tournament employee to stop whistling during Vanderbilt's game against Louisville on Sunday and that if he didn't quiet down, he could be ejected from the ballpark. |
| Auburn trails Louisville as play is suspended to Wednesday at CWS | |
 | The sky opened up over Omaha, and Auburn stepped off the field drenched in rain at the College World Series, where an entire season could've flashed before the Tigers' eyes --- extended, at least, for another night. Auburn's elimination game with Louisville was suspended due to rain before the fifth inning Tuesday at TD Ameritrade Park as the Tigers trailed 4-1. The game will resume at 11:03 a.m. Wednesday. Louisville rolled up three runs in the top of the fourth to build its lead as the rain started to fall, sending Auburn closer to the brink of elimination. Auburn unraveled to lose a heartbreaker to Mississippi State 5-4 in its College World Series opener on Sunday, just after Louisville lost to Vanderbilt 3-1, sending the two losers into Tuesday's elimination game. The game started at 1:07 p.m. and was paused at 2:55 p.m. |
| Mississippi State fan learns baseball by learning to keep score | |
 | Starkville residents Steve and Mary Cee love baseball. The Cee's love Mississippi State baseball, and are excited to be in Omaha for the College World Series. It wasn't always this way. "She knew nothing about baseball when I took her (Mary Cee) to the first State game," said Steve Cee. "She was getting so tense and so wrapped up with emotion trying to keep up with what was going on in the game." "I say a lady across the way in the 'old Dude' scoring," said Mary Cee. "I went over and she showed my how to score. She said, 'Don't worry, everybody's scoring language is different.' I bought a couple of books, and I read up, and I started scoring." Mary Cee says scoring a game gives her a more relaxing way to follow and watch a game. It's also boosted her knowledge of the game. "I keep up with pitch counts," said Mary Cee. "A lot of times the guys and gals around me will say, 'what's the pitch count?' We'll all discuss that, and we'll all wonder can this pitcher go for another inning or two?" Mary likes to challenge herself by trying new things each season. For the 2019 season, she has been keeping up with errors. |
| Mississippi State forward Reggie Perry tabbed finalist for USA U19 World Cup roster | |
| Mississippi State forward Reggie Perry was selected as one of 18 finalists for the 2019 USA Basketball Men's U19 World Cup Team announced Tuesday by the USA Basketball Junior National Team Committee. Perry is one of five finalists who played college basketball in 2018-19 joining Tyrese Haliburton (Iowa State), Kira Lewis, Jr. (Alabama), Isaac Likekele (Oklahoma State) and Trevion Williams (Purdue). High school players from the 2019 and 2020 classes represent the remaining 13 spots. The original pool of 33 players was narrowed down to 18 after five practices at the USA Olympic Training Center in Colorado. The 18 finalists will continue to train twice a day in Colorado Springs with the 12-member USA U19 World Cup Team being announced prior to the team's June 24 departure. The 2019 FIBA U19 World Cup will take place from June 29-July 7 in Greece. |
| At Ole Miss, Carter told to act as AD, not interim AD | |
| Keith Carter's immediate goal as interim athletics director at Ole Miss might be for no one to know he's the interim AD. While the school also has an interim chancellor at this time, Carter's intention is to push through with on-going initiatives in what he describes as a successful athletics department. The biggest focus right now is football season ticket sales. Carter said, in an interview on Tuesday, he wants to study some data after a recently completed online selection process before announcing sale numbers in early July. His own personality will show up in the department but in a very subtle ways, he said. As head of the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation, the department's chief revenue-raising arm, Carter managed a staff of 16. Now he leads a staff of 260. He has not been given parameters for his authority. Interim chancellor Larry Sparks told Carter, "You act as though you're the AD, not the interim AD, the AD," Carter said. "That made me feel good." |
| Meet Brian Levin, Southern Miss' new softball coach | |
 | Southern Miss Director of Athletics Jeremy McClain announced Friday afternoon the hiring of Brian Levin (pronounced Leh-VANN) as the school's ninth head softball coach. "During the search process it became very clear that Brian Levin was the right person at the right time to lead our softball program," said McClain. "His experience and record of success speak for themselves, and his student-athlete centered focus aligns perfectly with the culture we are striving for at Southern Miss. I am excited for the future of our softball program and for the young ladies who will benefit from Brian's leadership." Levin comes to Southern Miss after spending the previous three seasons as the head softball coach at Belmont University in Nashville. A veteran of college and professional softball, Levin's previous head coaching stop included a successful six-year run at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. |
| Plans to sell beer at Tennessee games have been revealed -- the city says not so fast | |
 | It's not so much a question about whether alcohol will be sold at University of Tennessee athletic facilities, it's a question of how --- and the Knoxville City Council Beer Board postponed permits Tuesday evening until those details can be ironed out. William T. Cheek III, a Nashville attorney who spoke on behalf of the companies that would serve the alcohol, said a decision has been made to sell alcohol during UT games. Aramark, which will run alcohol sales through two companies it operates, presented basic plans Tuesday about where sales will occur, what limits will be applied to drink sales and how vendors will ensure underage people aren't served. But the Beer Board wanted more details on sales at Thompson-Boling Arena and Neyland Stadium, and postponed a decision until next month to allow time to finalize the plans. Both Neyland and Thompson-Boling would only serve beer in the bowl levels. The club level at Neyland would also sell wine, while Thompson-Boling's suites would have a full bar. |
| Adidas Sells Diversity. Black Employees Say It Doesn't Practice It. | |
 | In the United States, Adidas has built much of its name -- and sales -- through its association with black superstars. In the 1980s, the seminal hip-hop group Run-DMC gave the company's sneakers and apparel cultural cachet through its song "My Adidas." Popular black athletes and entertainers like James Harden, Candace Parker and Kanye West endorse its products. Black employees at the company's North American headquarters in Portland, Ore., however, describe a workplace culture that contradicts the brand's image. Interviews with more than 20 current or former Adidas employees show the company's predominantly white leadership struggling with issues of race and discrimination. On the campus, known as Adidas Village, the employees say, race is a constant issue, leaving the relatively few black employees often feeling marginalized and sometimes discriminated against. For many, the internal tensions at Adidas reflect a larger issue facing the American sports apparel industry, which has a combined annual revenue of more than $20 billion on shoe sales alone. |
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