"They have the ear of Phil Knight," he said, referring to that company's chairman.

The top individual donor was Phil Knight of Nike, who gave $150,000.

Is this what Phil Knight meant, I wondered, when he said his company wasn't about the sneakers?

Phil Knight remains, after hundreds of pages, the same indistinct and enigmatic figure he was when the story opened.

Phil Knight and his closest executives have heard so much criticism that they have started to parody it.

Phil Knight has seen the future of his industry and it does not have an Adam's apple.

Phil Knight also played track in high school and thats why he made the shoe.

Some things are true even though Phil Knight, the chairman of Nike, believes them.

As Phil Knight has said, "There is no value in making things any more.

But Phil Knight didn't have to do the dirty work himself-he just cut the orders and left the rest to the contractors.