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Phil Knight

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Philip Hampson Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American business magnate and philanthropist. [1]

87 relations: ABC News, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American City Business Journals, Anti-sweatshop movement, Athletics West, Bill Bowerman, Carnegie Unit and Student Hour, Carolyn Davidson, Catholic Church, Catlin Gabel School, Certified Public Accountant, Cleveland High School (Portland, Oregon), Climate change, Columbia Sportswear, Coraline (film), Daily Emerald, David B. Frohnmayer, Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon, El Salvador, ESPN, Eugene, Oregon, Fair Labor Association, Flash Video, Forbes, Gridiron football, IPhone, Japan, Knight Cancer Institute, Knight Library, Knight-Hennessy Scholars, Kobe, La Quinta, California, Laika (company), Lake Ilopango, List of Knight endowed chairs and professorships, Marcus Mariota, Mark Parker, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon, Matthew Knight Arena, Motion capture, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Nike (mythology), Nike, Inc., Nonprofit organization, Onitsuka Tiger, Oprah Winfrey, Oregon, Oregon Ballot Measures 66 and 67 (2010), Oregon Health & Science University, ..., Oregon Sports Hall of Fame, Oregon University System, Outside the Lines, Pacific Northwest, Phi Gamma Delta, Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, Philip H. Knight Chairs and Professorships, Plymouth Valiant, Political action committee, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, Poverty, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rhodes Scholarship, S. C. Johnson & Son, San Diego, San Salvador, Simon & Schuster, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stop motion, Swoosh, Table football, The New York Times, The Oregon Journal, The Oregonian, The Wall Street Journal, Travis Knight, United States, United States Army Reserve, University of Oregon, Varsity letter, Will Vinton, William Perez, William W. Knight (publisher), Worker Rights Consortium, 40-yard dash. Expand index (37 more) »

ABC News

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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American City Business Journals

"." Houston Business Journal.

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Anti-sweatshop movement

Anti-sweatshop movement refers to campaigns to improve the conditions of workers in sweatshops, i.e. manufacturing places characterized by low wages, poor working conditions and often child labor.

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Athletics West

Athletics West (frequently abbreviated in results as AW) was an American running team formed in 1977 by Bill Bowerman, Phil Knight and Geoff Hollister.

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Bill Bowerman

William Jay "Bill" Bowerman (February 19, 1911 – December 24, 1999) was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers.

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Carnegie Unit and Student Hour

The Carnegie Unit and the Student Hour are strictly time-based references for measuring educational attainment used by American universities and colleges; the Carnegie Unit assesses secondary school attainment, and the Student Hour, derived from the Carnegie Unit, assesses collegiate attainment.

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Carolyn Davidson

Carolyn Davidson is a graphic designer best known for designing the Nike Swoosh logo.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Catlin Gabel School

Catlin Gabel School is an independent preschool through 12th grade private school in West Haven-Sylvan, a census-designated place in Washington County and the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Certified Public Accountant

Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is the title of qualified accountants in numerous countries in the English-speaking world.

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Cleveland High School (Portland, Oregon)

Cleveland High School is a public high school in inner southeast Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Columbia Sportswear

Columbia Sportswear Company is an American company that manufactures and distributes outerwear, sportswear, and footwear.

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Coraline (film)

Coraline is a 2009 American 3D stop-motion dark fantasy horror film based on Neil Gaiman's 2002 novel of the same name.

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Daily Emerald

The Daily Emerald is an online student news site produced at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, United States.

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David B. Frohnmayer

David B. "Dave" Frohnmayer (July 9, 1940 – March 10, 2015) was an American attorney, politician, and university administrator from Oregon.

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Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon

Eastmoreland is an early-twentieth century, tree-filled neighborhood in inner southeast Portland, Oregon, United States.

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El Salvador

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador (República de El Salvador, literally "Republic of The Savior"), is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America.

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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Eugene, Oregon

Eugene is a city of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Fair Labor Association

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a non-profit collaborative effort of universities, civil society organizations, and businesses.

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Flash Video

Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver digital video content (e.g., TV shows, movies, etc.) over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Gridiron football

Gridiron football,.

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IPhone

iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPhone line of products use Apple's iOS mobile operating system software.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Knight Cancer Institute

The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute (previously the OHSU Cancer Institute) is a research institute within Oregon Health & Science University.

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Knight Library

Knight Library is the main facility of the University of Oregon's (UO) library system.

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Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Knight-Hennessy Scholars is an international graduate-level scholarship program for study at Stanford University.

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Kobe

is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.

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La Quinta, California

La Quinta is a resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, specifically in the Coachella Valley between Indian Wells and Indio.

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Laika (company)

Laika Entertainment, LLC, or simply Laika, is an American stop-motion animation studio specializing in feature films, commercial content for all media, music videos and short films.

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Lake Ilopango

Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills a scenic 8 by 11 km (72 km2 or 28 sq mi) volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, on the borders of the San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlán departments.

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List of Knight endowed chairs and professorships

Penny and Phil Knight have established Knight endowed chairs and professorships at Stanford University and the University of Oregon; and at Willamette University, the Alex L. Parks Distinguished Chair for the Dean of the College of Law.

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Marcus Mariota

Marcus Ardel Taulauniu Mariota (born October 30, 1993) is an American football quarterback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL).

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Mark Parker

Mark Parker (born 21 October 1955) is an American businessman.

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Marylhurst University

Marylhurst University is a private, nonprofit applied liberal arts and business university located in Marylhurst, Oregon.

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Marylhurst, Oregon

Marylhurst, Oregon is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.

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Matthew Knight Arena

The Matthew Knight Arena (MKA) is a 12,364-seat, multi-purpose arena in Eugene, Oregon, United States.

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Motion capture

Motion capture (Mo-cap for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people.

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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Nike (mythology)

In ancient Greek religion, Nike (Νίκη, "Victory") was a goddess who personified victory.

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Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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Onitsuka Tiger

Onitsuka Tiger is one of the oldest shoe companies in Japan, tracing its history back to the formation of Onitsuka Co Ltd in 1949 when 32-year-old former military officer Kihachiro Onitsuka started his company with the hopes of raising postwar youth self-esteem through athletics.

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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Oregon Ballot Measures 66 and 67 (2010)

Measures 66 and 67 are two ballot referenda that were on the special election ballot in the US state of Oregon, which proposed tax increases on corporations and on households making US$250,000 and individuals making $125,000 to help balance the state's budget.

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Oregon Health & Science University

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a public university in Oregon with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland.

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Oregon Sports Hall of Fame

The Oregon Sports Hall of Fame honors Oregon athletes, teams, coaches, and others who have made a significant contribution to sports in Oregon.

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Oregon University System

The Oregon University System (OUS) was administered by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education (the "Board") and the Chancellor of the OUS, who was appointed by the Board.

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Outside the Lines

Outside the Lines, or also referred to as OTL, is an American television program on ESPN that looks "outside the lines" and examines critical issues in mostly American sports on and off the field of play.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.

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Phi Gamma Delta

Phi Gamma Delta (ΦΓΔ), commonly known as FIJI or Phi Gam), is a social fraternity with more than 158 active chapters and 13 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1848. Along with Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Gamma Delta forms a half of the Jefferson Duo. Since its founding in 1848, the fraternity has initiated more than 170,000 brothers. The nickname FIJI is used commonly by the fraternity due to Phi Gamma Delta bylaws that limit the use of the Greek letters.

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Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact

The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact (Knight Campus) is a research campus of the University of Oregon that is expected to open in 2020.

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Philip H. Knight Chairs and Professorships

Philip H. Knight endowed chairs and professorships were established at the University of Oregon in 1996, when Penny and Phil Knight donated US$15 million for 27 endowed chairs and professorships, "to provide academic areas with a source of funds for recruiting and retaining faculty of superior academic quality".

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Plymouth Valiant

The Plymouth Valiant (first appearing in 1960 as simply the Valiant) is an automobile which was manufactured by the Plymouth division of the Chrysler Corporation in the United States from 1960 to 1976.

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Political action committee

In the United States and Canada, a political action committee (PAC) is an organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation.

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Portland State University

Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university located in the southwest University District of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Poverty

Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers (doing business as PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship, named after the Anglo-South African mining magnate and politician Cecil John Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford.

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S. C. Johnson & Son

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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San Salvador

San Salvador ("Holy Savior") is the capital and the most populous city of El Salvador and its eponymous department.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Stanford Graduate School of Business

The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB or GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University in Stanford, California.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stop motion

Stop motion is an animated-film making technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they appear to exhibit independent motion when the series of frames is played back as a fast sequence.

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Swoosh

The Swoosh is the logo of American athletic shoe and clothing manufacturer Nike.

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Table football

Table football, also called foosball (compare with the German Fußball "football") and sometimes table soccer, is a table-top game that is loosely based on football.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Oregon Journal

The Oregon Journal was Portland, Oregon's daily afternoon newspaper from 1902 to 1982.

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The Oregonian

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Travis Knight

Travis Andrew Knight (born September 13, 1973) is an American animator, film director, and producer, who has worked as the lead animator for stop-motion animation studio Laika, and directed the films Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and Bumblebee (2018).

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army Reserve

The United States Army Reserve (USAR) is the federal reserve force of the United States Army.

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University of Oregon

The University of Oregon (also referred to as UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public flagship research university in Eugene, Oregon.

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Varsity letter

A varsity letter (or monogram) is an award earned in the United States for excellence in school activities.

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Will Vinton

Will Vinton (born November 17, 1947 in McMinnville, Oregon) is an American director and producer of animated films.

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William Perez

William David "Bill" Perez (born September 10, 1947) is an American businessman who was the chief executive officer of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.

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William W. Knight (publisher)

William W. "Bill" Knight (February 8, 1909 – February 19, 1981) was an American lawyer, politician, and newspaper publisher.

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Worker Rights Consortium

The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is an independent labor rights monitoring organization focused on protecting the rights of workers who sew apparel and make other products sold in the United States, particularly those bearing college or university logos.

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40-yard dash

The 40-yard dash is a sprint covering.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Knight

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