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A pair of shoes could end up costing the University of Central Florida nearly $2 million a year.

UCF promised Marcus Jordan, son of NBA legend Michael Jordan, that he could wear his father’s Nike Air Jordan brand for the Knights’ basketball team this season.

The problem? UCF has an exclusive $1.9 million contract with adidas that requires all coaches and athletes to use the company’s shoes, apparel and game equipment.

And now UCF and adidas are at an impasse, leaving an 18-year-old freshman with a famous father caught in middle.

“When I was being recruited, we talked about it,” said Marcus Jordan, who led Young to the 4A title last season. “They said they had talked to the adidas people and it wasn’t going to be a problem. I think everybody understands how big of a deal it is for my family.”

The deal has strained the relationship between UCF and one of its most important business partners, complicating current contract renewal negotiations. The university’s agreement with the company expires in 2010.

Contrary to a report last week by AOL Fanhouse, adidas officials told the Orlando Sentinel they have not reached an agreement with UCF yet about Jordan’s shoes.

“There is no compromise and the contract is currently under review,” adidas spokeswoman Andrea Corso said. “We are in negotiations for a future relationship regarding the broader UCF athletic program. What I can say is that these relationships are based upon agreed deliverables for both parties.”

UCF Athletics Association released a statement indicating it hopes to extend its five-year old relationship with adidas.

“At this time, we are working with adidas in determining how this unique set of circumstances will work for both parties,” the statement said. “We made adidas aware of this unique situation during contract renewal discussions. There is a great deal of respect for the adidas brand and the partnership.”

UCF’s contract with adidas represents about 5 percent of the UCF Athletics Association’s projected income this year.

UCF is negotiating a new deal with adidas that is tentatively expected to be worth $3 million and last up to six years. UCF would received all its merchandise from adidas free of charge under the new proposed contract, a change from the current deal that calls for UCF to buy some items from adidas at wholesale prices.

Nike has not expressed interest in taking over the UCF shoe contract, with the company well represented in the Florida market thanks to agreements with the University of Florida, Florida State and Miami.

In the worst possible scenario, UCF risks losing its current adidas contract worth and being forced buy its own clothing, shoes and equipment at full price for all 15 of its sports.

Marcus Jordan, the young man in the middle of this controversy, said he never meant to offend anyone.

“It’s a level of importance with the Jordan Brand and my family,” he said. “It’s no disrespect to adidas. I have a high level of respect for adidas, but I’m going to be wearing Jordan shoes. I’m wearing the adidas uniform and all my other UCF gear is adidas, but the shoes are going to be Jordan Brand.”

Dan Drane, an assistant professor of sports management at the University of Southern Mississippi, said it’s hard to imagine Marcus Jordan would be able to wear anything besides Nikes.

“Whether it’s right or wrong, Michael Jordan’s sons will always be compared to and associated with him,” Drane said. “It would be very difficult for them to be associated with a company other than the one that was so supportive of their father’s career.”

Drane said the shoe controversy goes beyond adidas simply wanting UCF to honor its contract.

“It’s a pretty deep issue that touches on a student’s legal right to wear whatever they feel is best for them,” Drane said. “In the end, this might end up being bigger than just a battle between adidas and Nike.”

This post was found is   chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-marcus-jordan-air-jordan,0,32539.story  and  they deserve the credit for the post.

This post  is a  tribute to MJ.   Michael Jackson who has passed away from us , is going to come back  in the form of movie Titled  This is it.

With so much of  air and response by the fans throughout the world.

What would have been the reaction of  Michael  Jackson if he had be alive?

It is claimed that Earth and Jupiter has been pictured in single line. Have a view of this image. I think this is a fake image, cause  where is mars and  jupiter is supposed to  be way far from earth. this doesnt make sense at all

Here comes the  calcy to calculate your life  line.  This is just a fun lol. There is a site named  livingto100.com  that  will tell you  how long you  live by asking you   40 questions.

Answer 40 questions and you will know your life age. This is just a  sure fun according to me, but guess what  this site has  large number of searches. Well its obvious that people are  desperate  to know there life  time.

To know your life expectancy , have a  click here   My Life Age

How this calculator works ?

It depends on certain set of questions  on health and your family background.  According to this calculator, American kids born after 2007 will  live upto 80 years and Japan kids  born after  2007 will live upto  83 years. This test was conducted by  England.

To know your life expectancy , have a  click here   My Life Age

There are some very interesting numbers in Apple’s third-quarter press release. Apple has also disclosed more numbers in its conference call which is still in progress. Some highlights:

3.05 million Macs sold this quarter, up 17 percent from a year ago. The overall PC market is expected to grow just 2 percent in the third quarter. That means Apple is taking market share from Windows still. But average selling prices per Mac are down. Sales outside the U.S. were stronger than sales inside the U.S.

10.2 million iPods sold this quarter, down 8 percent from 11 million a year ago. The iPod Touch sales were up 100 percent year-over-year.

7.4 million iPhones sold in the quarter, up 7 percent from a year ago. That’s a new record. iPhone sell through in the quarter was up 38 percent over a year ago.

$9.87 billion in third quarter revenues, up 25 percent ; analysts expected $9.2 billion.

$1.82 a share in earnings per share, up 47 percent; analysts expected $1.42 a share.

273 Apple stores now open, up 15. Apple is spending $400 million a year on stores. It remodeled 72 of them and opened 26 new stores in the quarter. That means some Apple stores closed in the quarter.

45.9 million visitors to Apple stores in the quarter, up from 42.7 million a year ago. Average revenue per store is $7.1 million per quarter, down from $7.6 million a year ago.

Apple has $23.4 billion in cash and short-term investments. With long-term investments included, Apple has $34 billion in current assets, up from $31 billion last quarter.

Expected fourth quarter revenue: $11.3 billion to $11.6 billion Earnings per share in fourth quarter are expected to be $1.70 a share to $1.78 a share.

2.4 million iPhones are in the inventory channel, up 500,000 from a quarter before.

China and Korea are expected to roll iPhones out in fourth quarter. Canada and UK are expected to add a second iPhone carrier.

this post credit goes to   venturebeat.com

WWE  Bragging Rights  a new pay per view incident  introduced  recently on wwe  is to be held  this Oct 25.

Whats new on this pay per view?

Well, as always, Mr McMahon  has delivered a brand new concept  involving a clash between Raw  VS Smack Down ….cool isnt it.  The  match is between 7 Raw Superstars and  7  Smack down Superstars.

This week on Raw , the following qualifying matches occurred to  earn rights  in Raw team

Details of  Bragging Rights  Raw Team :

• DX  has already qualified for the team , and they will be captaining raw team. This makes 2 members in Raw team that is  Shawn Michaels and Triple H

• The  third member of the team is non other than Big Show who earned his rights for the team by competing with  Chris Jerico

• The Fourth member of the team is  Cody Rhodes

• This was the best match. As  legacy battled with John Cena  in a triple threat match where  Cody Rhodes Pinned Ted dibiase to earn his right for the raw  team

• The Fifth member of the team is  Jack Swagger

• The sixth member is   Kofi  Kingston

• The update on Seventh member will be done  shortly

WWE Champion ship match :

John Cena will face  Randy orton  in  Iron Man Match for  60 mins. Wow, if  Cena wins he will be  the new  Champion and if he loses  He is Banished from RAW  forever

WWE World Heavy weight Championship match:

The Undertaker will face  C M Punk, Batista and Rey Mysterio in a  fatal four way match.

I think this is very much  injustice done to undertaker.

Undertaker says he will take all their soul  and again will retain the championship.

Jaycee Dugard , a girl who was kidnapped 18 year  ago is finally freed. Jaycee was kidnapped  by a cyco named Garrido who had  2 kids with her. she was 11 years at the time of being kidnapped.

Ever since Jaycee Dugard has been freed,there have been constant searches on the internet for her Photos, finally the wait seems to be over.

PEOPLE.com reports the following message given by  Jaycee “I’m so happy to be back with my family,”

According to law officer  Scott, “Jaycee understands and appreciates that some absolutely terrible things were done to her and fully appreciates that those people need to be held accountable, and as a result of that she is fully cooperating with the law enforcement agencies involved in the prosecution,”

Scott is currently on a mission of raising a fund for  jaycee which is already crossed $1,00,ooo  as  a  payback for their failure to rescue her from this  hell.

have a look on the following video about Jaycee,