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OMAHA, Neb. (KPTM) — National Go Barefoot Day encourages people to kick off your shoes for a good cause, according to nationaldaycalendar.com. The charity organization Soles4Souls helps to provide underprivileged kids around the world with shoes. Shoes are one of the hardest things for poorer countries to come by. Clothes are easy to make, but durable shoes are much harder. Shoes protect our feet from a multitude of things such as rocks, Running Shoes harsh weather conditions, infection, tetanus, soil-transmitted diseases, and jiggers. Jiggers are tiny parasitic fleas that get into the human body through the soles of the feet. Within ten days, jiggers can grow to be 2,000 times their normal size. This can cause immense pain and make it difficult to walk.   Don...

Are you finally ready to pack away your winter shoes and boots? Or maybe you’re just tired of tripping over that pile of sneakers and sandals every time you walk in the front door. If you need a little help keeping the footwear in your home organized, get over to Amazon ASAP and order the Woffit Under Bed Shoe Storage Organizer. Right now, you’ll get two large containers for just $25.49. That’s nearly 50% off the original price! These best-selling Under Bed Shoe Storage Organizers have 4.4 out of 5 stars and more than 10,500 ratings on Amazon. Some features getting high marks from Chaco Sandals shoppers are the spacious shoe slots, the durable material of the bags, and the securely attached handles, which don’t rip when you’re moving the bag. “The slots for the shoes are very spaciou...

Over the weekend, Nike took out a full-page ad in Sunday’s print edition of the New York Times to herald the NikeCraft General Purpose Shoe, its latest collaboration with the New York-based artist Tom Sachs. The ad praised the sneaker as something that most advertised products claim not to be: “Boring.” In true Don Draper fashion, the rest of the retro, text-heavy ad rallies against the tendency of sneaker companies and fans alike to anoint footwear with meaning Oofos Outlet beyond its primary function, which of course is to protect one’s feet from the ground. The General Purpose Shoe, instead, is “A do-more sneaker. An own-less sneaker.” Pictured above the disyllabic header—much in the spirit of real-life Mad Men-era adman David Ogilvy’s 1960 “Lemon” Volkswagen campaign—are a pair of w...

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If you cover high school sports long enough no matter where you live in America, there’s a good chance at least one athlete will make it to the professional ranks. The exception is Southern California, where there are so many future stars living among us that you can visit a T-ball field, swimming pool, gymnasium, park, beach, golf course or soccer field to find a singular talent. It’s no wonder predictions of greatness start at age 5, gather momentum at 10, pick up steam at 13, then the surreal life sets in dealing with college recruiters, picking a high school, picking a private coach, learning about rankings and planning for the future. As the 2021-22 high school sports season comes to an end, fans in Southern California are fortunate because there is no drought in talent. The ...

Two months after becoming the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship, former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas pushed back on some of the criticism she received during the 2021-22 season in an exclusive interview with ABC News and ESPN. Thomas, who declined all interview requests during the NCAA swimming and diving championships in Atlanta in March, found herself at the center of a national debate over who gets to compete in women's sports. "The biggest misconception, I think, is the reason I transitioned," Thomas said. "People will say, 'Oh, she just transitioned so she would have an advantage, so she could win.' I transitioned to be happy, to be true to myself." Thomas swam on the Penn men's swimming team for three seasons On Cloud ...