A $60M trademark infringement suit Nike filed last summer against sneaker customizer DOMINIC CHAMBRONE has been “settled, largely favoring Nike and over two dozen of its trademarks.” The details of the settlement, including cash awards, were not made public. Nike’s suit against Chambrone, also known as the Shoe Surgeon, claimed he “used Nike’s logo and other trademarked designs without its permission.” In the settlement agreement filed on June 18, Nike was granted a “permanent injunction, which bars Chambrone from using Nike designs in any of his work and from continuing to sell shoe-making kits that Nike alleged contain instructions on how to make bootleg versions of some of Nike’s most popular silhouettes” (PORTLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL, 7/1).
GROWING REACH: Puma and USMNT MF CHRISTIAN PULISIC yesterday announced the opening of the second Stomping Grounds facility in L.A. The new facility features soccer activity zones, life-skills programming and mentorship developed in collaboration with Culver City Football Club, a nonprofit youth soccer club. The facility is the latest installment in the PUMA x Christian Pulisic Legacy Program, launched in 2023. To celebrate the launch, Pulisic joined local youth on-site, engaging with participants across five interactive stations (Puma).
SEEKING CHANGE: Boxing HOFer MIKE TYSON is “one of many athletes who are pushing for cannabis reform” in the U.S. The Coalition of Athletes and Entertainers supporting President DONALD TRUMP’s Policy Objectives, which also includes Rockets F KEVIN DURANT and former NFLer DEZ BRYANT, “penned a letter to the White House in an effort to ‘address marijuana-related injustices.’” Tyson appeared on “FOX & FRIENDS” on Monday to address the matter (TORONTO SUN, 7/1).
NAMES: World Golf HOFer and analyst JUDY RANKIN was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the Univ. of St. Andrews (GOLFWEEK, 7/1)....Thunder C CHET HOLMGREN yesterday returned to his former school Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis to “host his first ProCamps youth basketball clinic” in Minnesota. Packed into the Minnehaha gym were “one hundred twenty-five young athletes ranging from first to eighth grade” (MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE, 7/1)....Former NBAer DERRICK ROSE will “serve as the grand marshal” for Sunday’s NASCAR Chicago Street Race (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 7/1).
