On February 21, 2013, Nike announced it suspended its contract with Oscar Pistorius, due to him being charged with premeditated murder. The deal includes using Nike's range of golf clubs, a move Nick Faldo previously described as "dangerous" for McIlroy's game. In January 2013, Nike signed Rory McIlroy, the then-number one golfer in the world, to a ten-year sponsorship deal worth $250 million. Nike also sponsored soccer players such as Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Wesley Sneijder, Wayne Rooney and Landon Donovan, among others. After the Freeh Report was released on July 12, 2012, Nike CEO Mark Parker announced the name Joe Paterno would be removed immediately from the child development center. Nike originally announced it would not remove Paterno's name from the building in the wake of the Penn State sex abuse scandal. Nike is a major sponsor of the athletic programs at Penn State University and named its first child care facility after Joe Paterno when it opened in 1990 at the company's headquarters. The signing of basketball player Michael Jordan in 1984, with his subsequent promotion of Nike over the course of his career, with Spike Lee as Mars Blackmon, proved to be one of the biggest boosts to Nike's publicity and sales. Nike has also sponsored many other successful track and field athletes over the years, such as Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Sebastian Coe. Today, the Steve Prefontaine Building is named in his honor at Nike's corporate headquarters. Prefontaine was the prized pupil of the company's co-founder, Bill Bowerman, while he coached at the University of Oregon. The first track endorser was distance runner Steve Prefontaine. Nike's first professional athlete endorser was Romanian tennis player Ilie Năstase. Nike pays top athletes in many sports to use their products and promote and advertise their technology and design. This article contains a list of Nike, Inc.
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