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Financier and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, is congratulating former NFL player Colin Kaepernick for turning his fight with the league into an entrepreneurial opportunity.

Last year, the owner of a Colorado sportswear store decided to stop selling Nike products because Nike made anti-American protester Colin Kaepernick the face of their ad campaign. However, the store is now closing its doors after a sharp drop in profits.

While Nike is no stranger to controversy, especially given the company’s willingness to make anthem protester Colin Kaepernick the face of a major ad campaign, a new controversy has landed the company in hot water of an entirely different variety.

Iconic conservative radio host and best-selling author Dennis Prager railed against the left’s relentless attacks on traditional values, higher education, entertainment, and sports on Wednesday during Turning Point USA’s 2018 Student Action Summit.

Nike released their new Colin Kaepernick t-shirts on Thursday, and the sportswear giant sold out of the new shirts on the same day.

USA Gymnastics CEO Mary Bono resigned her position Tuesday, after meeting criticism over her opposition to Nike and its “Just Do It” ads featuring anthem protester Colin Kaepernick.

An Arkansas county sheriff is being accused of requiring prisoners to wear Nike shirts in their mugshots, as a way to mock anthem protester Colin Kaepernick.

Colin Kaepernick, former NFL quarterback and inventor of the national anthem protest, has filed for trademark protection for a graphic depiction of his face and hair, a report notes.

The “end goal” of a $700 million deal that multinational corporation Verizon has cut with the country’s largest outsourcing firm, Infosys, is to eventually lay off thousands of American workers and send their jobs to India.

In the wake of Nike’s Colin Kaepernick “Just Do It” ad, a growing number of college sports programs have been inundated with letters from fans and alumni urging them to drop Nike equipment and apparel.

Multinational corporation Verizon is set to outsource its IT department to the Indian outsourcing firm, Infosys, a move that executives say will result in 1,000 potential layoffs.

The group which manages and oversees the public worker pension fund for the State of New Jersey, is responding to a request from a constituent representing police and fire personnel to review their investments with Nike.

Fox Sports Radio’s Clay Travis, author of Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left Is Ruining Sports with Politics, noted how sports media figures are ten times more likely to financially support Democrats than their political media counterparts. He offered his remarks in a Wednesday interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

Nike is reaffirming its work with national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick, as the company’s CEO saying he is “very proud” to work with the former player.

Sonnie talks about the Democrat machine being in full operation in tearing down Judge Brett Kavanaugh and how Democrats will do anything to destroy Donald Trump.

Wells Fargo, the world’s third-largest United States bank, has announced that it will lay off about 26,500 employees after years of outsourcing American jobs and importing foreign workers.

Harvard University is planning to honor the former NFL quarterback turned anthem-kneeling activist Colin Kaepernick with a medal next month.

The Texas Farm Bureau has told its employees not to wear its Nike branded products to the workplace.

A Little Rock, Arkansas, Nike outlet called police last Friday after a man waving a pro-police flag appeared outside the store, a report says.

Actress Jennifer Lewis wore a casual Nike sweatshirt to the 2018 Emmy Awards on Monday night to “applaud” to the sportswear brand for “supporting Colin Kaepernick.”

A Rhode Island town is set to debate a resolution calling on city agencies to boycott Nike products, because of its “Just Do It” ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, according to a report.

Rapper Eminem defended NFL anthem kneelers and Nike’s ad campaign starring Colin Kaepernick, referring to critics as “fucking moron[s]” in a new interview with hip-hop radio host Sway Calloway.

Nike’s decision to make Colin Kaepernick the face of their ad campaign, was one of the most controversial decisions in the history of advertising.

The multinational Nike corporation is fighting to keep Oregon a “sanctuary state” for all illegal aliens less than a month after an illegal alien has been accused of killing a young couple in a drunk driving car crash. 

A poll taken since the Labor Day release of Colin Kaerpernick’s “Just Do It” ad for Nike sportswear, finds that 36 percent are less likely to buy Nike products.

A Quinnipiac Poll finds that two-thirds of voters believe that NFL players have a right to protest during the national anthem. While the numbers split even on whether the players actually should protest during the nation’s song.

A Louisiana mayor who banned Nike products for use in city athletic programs, has reversed his decision after receiving considerable backlash over the ban.

Longtime NFL writer Peter King, thinks the Buffalo Bills should sign free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

A pastor in Alabama cut up Nike products with a pair of scissors, while delivering an impassioned sermon in opposition to the company’s decision to make Colin Kaepernick the face of their ad campaign.

New York City’s 40th police commissioner, Bernard Kerik, slammed former quarterback Colin Kaepernick, saying Kaepernick is a “thug” and “disgusting” for promoting organizations that support cop killers such as Assata Shakur.

A man paying tribute to a police officer who perished in the September 11 terror attacks took a veiled shot at Colin Kaepernick’s Nike campaign while speaking Tuesday at a remembrance ceremony in New York City.

Just ahead of the anniversary of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, Dirty Jobs star Mike Rowe noted that the heroes we saw that terrible day are more worthy of praise than former NFL player Colin Kaepernick ever could be.

Colin Kaepernick reports that the “I’m With Kap” jerseys for sale on his personal website sold out only hours after their release.

At first, Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protest revolution was televised. Now, the revolution is being commercialized.

Actor Kevin Sorbo panned sportswear giant Nike’s use of national anthem protestor Colin Kaepernick as the face of the mega-brand’s “Just Do It” 30th anniversary campaign.

According to a report from Rolling Stone magazine, Nike’s call center got an earful from customers upset at the company’s latest ad featuring original anthem protester Colin Kaepernick.