The Nike Shox achieved mythical status in Sydney during the 2000 Summer Olympics, but the idea for the shoes was born 16 years prior. In 1984, the foam needed to create the shoe hadn’t been invented ...

Why It’s Hot: You’re walking on a full-length array of polyurethane shock absorbers. The cool kids will take notice. Winner of our 2003 Editors’ Choice award A long-lasting midsole and sweet-looking ...

Evalauation The Shox TL is the shoe Nike boffins have been working towards for nearly two decades – the shoe with a foamless midsole. It’s the first Nike not to have any conventional midsole foam (or ...

Vince Carter's dunk over Frenchman Frederick Weis is arguably the greatest in-game dunk of all time. The 6'6" Carter defied the law of gravity when he literally jumped over the 7'2" Weis during Team ...

Sheryl Swoopes never wore Nikes as a kid growing up in Brownfield, Texas. “I didn't even know what Nike was,” she says. O.K., perhaps she’d heard of the brand, but she never wore the shoes, insists ...