Nike hates dogfighting when it suits Nike

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Nike says it’s digusted by the dogfighting allegations facing football star Michael Vick and has suspended the release of its latest Michael Vick shoe. In a statement, the sneaker giant says: “Nike is concerned by the serious and highly disturbing allegations made against Michael Vick and we consider any cruelty to animals inhumane and abhorrent.” But dogfighting, it seems, may be OK if it can lend some street cred to a Nike commercial. An AdFreak reader points us to a 2003 Nike basketball commercial called “The

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