33,000 Nike shoes drifting toward Alaska

Tuesday, February 25, 2003

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Enough soggy Nike basketball shoes to outfit every high school team in Alaska are drifting through the Pacific Ocean toward the state after spilling from a container ship off Northern California.

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