71.   Shoe companies already support many high school basketball events.

72.   Shoe companies have been caught in the middle of the controversy.

73.   Shoe companies have scaled seriously back on their endorsers, and the owners, having won the lockout, are sure to want to win the peace as well.

74.   Some guys go all over the world every summer giving clinics, with junkets here and there for either the league or a shoe company.

75.   Suddenly basketball sneakers seem to be on the wrong side of the fashion cycle, and shoe companies are slashing ad budgets.

76.   That compensation package, she said, was in line with salaries paid to executives at other shoe companies.

77.   That is when Nike, the shoe company that showers Greene with endorsement dollars, will kick off its pre-Olympic hype.

78.   The athletic shoe company warned last week its third-quarter results will fall short of expectations.

79.   The coaches of those all-star teams sometimes receive lucrative consulting contracts with the shoe companies.

80.   The game today is controlled by a horde of interlocking interests, ranging from coaches and administrators to television networks and shoe companies.