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This Pack may drop in during the Spring/Summer 2009 or earlier. The Nike store will carry more information when they are ready to release this Pack. This Nike Cortez Free Flywire is a classic design that has been combined with a new innovation. The Cortez gets a Free sole. The Nike Flywire technology is on the shoe upper. The designer aimed to create a comfortable and very light version of the older Cortez model. There are two main colorways that will be prepared.

The white colorway has red and blue accents. The toe box has three separate regions because the central portion is white while the two sides sandwiching it are light grey colored. The midsection has white vertical lines and over this, the Nike swoosh runs in a streak of bright red. The midsole right below the Nike swoosh has a narrow line of blue accent. The rest of the midsole is white, with sharp ridges on its outsole showing.

The navy blue colorway is cool and dark. Its accents are black and white. This shoe looks more formal due to its combination and choice of colors. This can easily become a favorite design.

Two new Player Exclusive shoes to two MLB athletes, CC Sabathia of the Milwaukee Brewers and Derek Lee of the Chicago Cubs. The details are sketch around these pairs of Air Jordan Force V PE’s as one was created for Sabathia and the other Jones but the one thing they share in common is the turf pair that features a Nike branded turf outsole that is often seen on Nike Football shoes. Additionally you can see special details for both players on their respective shoe, Lee’s has his number 25 featured near the heel and Sabathia has CC52 stitched across the strap.

High Off Life Kicks spent some time in the last two months producing a pair of Nike Air Force Ones in honor of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The designer celebrates the accomplishments of America’s athletes with the Gold Medal Air Force Ones. These custom sneakers were posted on the High Off Life Kicks blog linked here.

High Off Life Kicks did not spare the gold when customizing these Air Force Ones. You can find dozens of gold spots on the outsole if you need a glitz fix. The designer added a solid block of gold paint on the toe box as well as the heel tag. This focus on the gold shows that High Off Life Kicks shares the desire to be number one with Team USA.

All of this gold would go to waste if these shoes didn’t have a little red, white and blue. High Off Life Kicks used a red swoosh and a blue middle panel to make sure that viewers think about America’s successes in the 2008 Olympics. These Air Force Ones will stand as a creative way for Olympic fans to remember Michael Phelps, the USA basketball team and other members of Team USA.

Nike is set to release the Nike Air Royal Mid Premium in the summer of 2009. The shoe looks to combine elements from a variety of other Nike models, including the Air Jordan 1, the Nike Terminator, the Nike Big Nike and the Dunk.

If you like things simple, these sneakers are taking a minimalist approach with a very basic design. They feature solid colorways, a perforated toe box and swoosh. Look for more information on these shoes in coming months as we head into 2009. Via KATC and chajinyoung.

With the huge Asian shoe market, after Nike lost Yao Ming to Reebok, they began to focus their attention on Yi Jian Lian of the New Jersey Nets. We have already seen quite a few Player Exclusive sneakers for Yi and here’s another.

This time, it’s the Nike Air Force 25 Low in a white and black colorway that features Yi’s logo on the tongue. These sneakers are very clean and simple. They probably won’t be officially released to the public, but you can get them now on ebay. One nice aspect of these kicks is the gradient grey that fades from the rear side panel to black on the heel. Via Sneaker News.

Here’s another Nike Terminator Low Premium with an interesting combination of textures. These shoes are part of the X-Ray pack, which also consists of a Terminator High.

These sneakers feature Stingray leather, an artic camouflage print and a translucent outsole with an X-ray graphic underneather. They also have a white pebbled leather Swoosh. The combination of textures on these shoes is a nice mix. You can find these sneakers right now at select Nike retailers, as well as from ebay sellers such as kixpress. Via Sneaker News.