The Latest Breaking News from Phil Knight

PITTSBURGH — Sonny Vaccaro knows that Matt Damon looks nothing like an Italian kid from Trafford. But that doesn't mean he had any misgivings about Damon playing him in "Air," the feature film currently in theaters about how Vaccaro signed Michael Jordan to his first shoe deal at Nike.

The story of a game-changing sponsorship deal is annoyingly watchable

In a tense movie about the birth of the Air Jordan, Ben Affleck gets his star-heavy cast to phone it in—to great effect.

The new feature length movie about Michael Jordan doesn’t actually include Michael Jordan, much in the same way audiences barely saw the giant fish in "Jaws."

Affleck’s dramatisation of the bid to get Jordan to endorse Nike’s radical new sneaker almost ignores the most compelling character

Ben Affleck’s buzzy drama tells the story about how Nike transformed into a major force in the sneakers market thanks to a young basketball star

“Air” is a good time, as well as a triumph of sports marketing in every conceivable way. It’s a docudrama — really more of a docucomedy-drama, with workplace banter and zingers for fuel — about how Nike marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro, played by Matt Damon, convinced his boss Phil Knight,…

The Michael Jordan sneaker movie is a slam dunk

At the end of “Air,” director and co-star Ben Affleck, bafflingly bewigged as Nike CEO and co-founder Phil Knight, lies back on his office couch and utters a single word: “equity.” It’s a bit of a cheeky callback to something that happens even before the movie starts: the appearance of…