Sports: Nike CEO briefed by doping doctor

Nike CEO Mark Parker was briefed on numerous occasions on doping experiments by a celebrated track coach, said Sara Germano and Joshua Robinson in The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency revealed this week that Parker was included on emails with coach Alberto Salazar and a Nike-sponsored endocrinologist, Jeffrey Brown, “that detailed the pair’s ongoing research to find performance-enhancing benefits for a stable of Olympic runners in the highly decorated Nike Oregon Project, an elite training group based at the company’s headquarters.” Salazar and Brown received four-year bans from the sport.