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Can Knight Phil the void?

By Ray Ratto
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, November 19, 2004

It's the age old question: "What do you give to the man who's been everything?" Only now we get to ask it of Phil Knight, the man who brought you Nike, in exchange for all the money you could push toward his cash register. Knight is passing his stewardship of Le Swoosh on to some guy named William Perez, which seems odd when you consider that Knight owned all of sports for a good long while. What's he going to be in retirement -- "the world's No. 1 sports fan"? It's like the guy who owns the ...

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