Oregonian Examination of John Capriotti: Capriotti: "Nike's hot-tempered track chief makes waves"

Yeah that's been posted over the years.

Two Steps Back wrote:

malmo wrote:

Capriotti exemplifies the Nike corporate culture since day one. He is no rogue employee. From top to bottom he is who they are.

Blanket Generalizations = Zero Credibility

Sound a little naive and personal, doesn't it? ALMOST EVERY Big Corporation is this way at Some Level. For instance, all the movie studios and talent agencies in Hollywood, or 90 of 100 VC Firms in Silicon Valley. The methods might be slightly different, more covert etc., but it's the same deal. It's called capitalism and the adult world.

A few things about that article. I read the NYT every day, and The New Yorker every month, and enjoy 60 Mins and good investigative work. The author of the article; and the fact checker -- both are too stupid to know that a male massage therapist is a "Masseur," not a freaking "Masseuse." It went downhill from there. Magness going to his bosses boss, was already known. So, not new. Not covering the terms of Berian's contract...lame. The author's abilities, or lack thereof, lost me at "massuese," what a dumb asss.

Kind of a lazy effort...

Broseph Meattles wrote:

People like dat should be punched.

Seriously, though, I assumed the guy would be some big Italian hothead, not a little suburban pvssy man. He looks like someone who hires bigger guys to do his punching.

Have you been at the trials? Every other dude looks like a tiny former runner suburban pvssy man... Really, that's all you got?

AW Pharmacy wrote:

If you read his book, Knight and many of the other early Nike employees were introverted skinny distance runners who were treated poorly by the banks, their suppliers, and competitors, which seems to have generated a huge corporate chip on the shoulder. Then they became successful, got rich, and started rubbing shoulders with all these alpha sports icons they signed, and started adopting the same swagger. And of course now they are the ones writing the biggest sponsorship & endorsement checks in all of sports, so now everyone grovels to them, including the athletes, teams, leagues, and media, which feeds the egos even further.

Good comment.

Sweet Lew wrote:

Speaking of Llewelyn Starks, have you ever seen his leg?

https://goo.gl/images/dNQe8f

Obviously if he ever threatened you will violence go for his right shin with a vengeance.

Cox Incorrect wrote:

Broseph Meattles wrote:

People like dat should be punched.

Seriously, though, I assumed the guy would be some big Italian hothead, not a little suburban pvssy man. He looks like someone who hires bigger guys to do his punching.

Have you been at the trials? Every other dude looks like a tiny former runner suburban pvssy man... Really, that's all you got?

Or a tiny lavender beret wearing pu $$y, right Erik?

Let's be fair wrote:

This is a quote from the guy who had John Capriotti"s job before he got "fired" from Nike. Of course no mention of this important "fact" in the article. Just another bias article against everything Nike.

Yes, Bossardet worked for Nike but he DID NOT have Caps job and wasn't even really that close to it.

Sheesh, I mis-typed my own user name in the previous post. That's what I get for fat-fingering on my phone.

Do you even lift bro?

it is good wrote:

Bias??? This is the paper that produced the propaganda for Nike and the NOP.

Take away everything anyone said, and stick with the evidence.

Would Cap have a job at a normal business?

He threatened to kill someone. His subordinate physically assaulted someone.

Stop there and you have enough to say, this guy would be fired or at least reprimanded.

the Nike Shills will be all over this thread, but take away the bias, and he's got some damning things that we know happened, before we even get to the conjecture.

If I was a sponsored elite athlete, I think I would be proud of having some shark on my side, intimidating other shoe companies and by extension their athletes, who might be my competitors!

Yeah, he might be a bully, but he'd be my bully! Better to have a lion in my corner than a dingbat or marshmallow.

By the way, it's pretty telling that Cap is only the Global Director of Sports Marketing. He is behind the Senior Director, VP, SVP, and President of Sports Marketing.

He is quite low on the totem-pole.

"hired a law firm that concluded he did not threaten Mackey."

What does this even mean?

I was actually in the stadium the day Starks shattered his leg. It was otherwise quiet at that point, and it sounded like a loud rifle shot.

4 of 5 witnesses worked for Cap. Sounds like solid and credible information leads.

STheriot wrote:

Nike, and especially Phil Knight, who set the tone from the top, never figured out the line between being aggressively focused on being number one in their industry, and being boorish bullies who always have to win regardless of the cost. Like a lot of successful companies, they point to their results as justification that they are doing things right, and their arrogance won't allow them to change.

Laughing at the intrinsic word ads on here. Anytime Nike is mentioned in a reply you can simply click on the word and shop Nike apparel......

Didn't read the article yet, but just a shout out to Mark Bossardet, a Long Island kid, decent runner, worked his way up from working at Gary Muhrcke's store to Nike and now Saucony.