Nike's first pair of running shoes was inspired by waffles. Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman was having breakfast with his wife one morning in 1971 when it dawned on him that the grooves in the ...

One of Nike’s first sneakers was the Cortez —a design that Bowerman had been working on for years prior—that featured a ...

Nike is planning to bring back the Moon Shoe, the 1972 running shoe that was the first to feature Bill Bowerman's waffle sole ...

The Nike Pegasus running shoe was first released in 1982 ... The new Pegasus, created to be part of the Bowerman series, took away the visible Air unit and instead incorporated it into the ...

After the Converse "Chuck Taylor" All-Star, the first ever signature athletic shoe in 1921, dominated the basketball shoe industry with 80% market share, per research firm SATRA) in the 1960s. Nike ...