Here comes a new Nike Huarache Basketball 2012 that despite featuring the same dual-colored mesh toe as many of this year’s other Free-soled drops, ends up feeling like a left field drop. But regular Sneaker News readers will remember this as one of the first colorways from this model we previewed back in July 2011,...

Dubai in and of itself is sort of a hybrid city, caught between embracing a massive wave of development and maintaining its cultural heritage as a capital of the Arab world. Touching on that status is this crazy custom design from Nash dubbed the ‘Bedouin’ and produced for the recent Sole DXB sneaker show, which...

Nike Trainers have come a long way from the mid-cut forefoot-strapped Air Trainer 1 to the modern-day Free or Air Max-soled renditions we see today. Combining state-of-the-art design and function with one of the most historic Air Trainers of all-time is this sick one-of-one sample of the Nike Air Max TR1 360 designed after Bo...

Each of the Jordan Son of Mars colorways we’ve seen to this point have quickly come along with nicknames (however precise), and though the pair pictured above remains the sole exception to that rule, there are a couple of Jordan Brand story lines that could weave their threads into this palette.  The mix of greys...

When it comes to Anfernee ’Penny’ Hardaway’s NBA career, the most asked question by far would be a hypothetical with a jist like, “What if injuries hadn’t robbed Penny of more years on top of the league?”  Hardaway’s was a tough path and it was nearly stolen away even earlier,...

Not that there’s anything wrong with the Lunar look on this Tinker Hatfield classic, but we can imagine that if we weren’t also being treated to the OG version of the Nike Air Safari this year, then the Nike Lunar Safari+ shown here might not be treated with such open arms. Fortunately, the Beaverton team is double...

Nike Free continues to dominate the ‘comfy outsole’ sector with its new designs and hybridized classics, like the Huaraches and the Kukini Free. The verdict on the ‘Free’ hybrids is still out, but in the case of comfort, the Kukini Free is guilty of all charges because they are built for maximum comfort...

This year’s flagship is a performance-oriented world-beater, the Air Max 1 is celebrating its 25th anniversary and plenty of more obscure classics have come out of the Nike Sportswear vault in recent months, but can any of those lines match the energy behind the Air Max 95 family right now? Not only are new colorways...

After a burst befitting the flurry of activity in spring training leading up to Major League Baseball’s Opening Day, the Nike Air Max Griffey Fury has slowed its pace in April and moving into this month. Fans of one of the smoothest swings in the history of America’s pastime won’t have to wait much longer,...

Nike Shox technology has assisted countless heel-striking casual runners, but what happens when you take what might be the line’s most recognizable silhouette and alter its key feature? Even casual-er is one acceptable answer, as the Nike Air Max R4 is aimed squarely at the lifestyle market with a combination of Shox R4...

One key reason the Nike Air Max 95+ BB is winning over the masses including typically staunch purists is new ‘abilities’ like the style pictured above, conferred by the miraculous synthetic construction that is Hyperfuse.  360-degree Max Air on the cushion ain’t bad, either, so when you combine these with...

Japanese sneakerheads in particular and fashion-forward folks in general jumped on the Footscape bandwagon around the turn of the century, that offset-laced instant classic still producing new variations to satisfy the demand to this day.  But they weren’t the first Swooshed sneakers with asymmetrically aligned...

Just what kind of escape is this?  Running away from greatness, toward more greatness?  The mita sneakers x Nike Air Max+ 95 BB ‘Neo Escape 2.0′ has been able to accomplish a task at which many of the earlier BBs had failed, namely, converting purists into believers thanks to the beautiful blue gradient that...

You know that Air Max 90-infused Eric Koston signature we’ve been seeing with the big X’d out name?  Well, don’t worry about losing out on the AM90 flavor because that’s still totally intact, but you can also let your mind relax a bit with the far more convenient name, Nike SB Eric Koston Heritage....

It was for Beams’ 35th anniversary that Puma introduced the Disc Blaze LTWT late last year, but the German Cat must’ve been excited by all that birthday celebrating, because they’re already prepping for the Disc Blaze’s 20th anniversary in 2013.  As part of the run up to next year’s party,...

Saturday was huge in the US with the Nike Basketball Elite Series dropping alongside notable releases like the Lunar Woven Flow Quickstrike and Nike x NFL Draft Pack. Japanese consumers don’t have the same affinity to that football-themed mega-set, so perhaps it was with the huge stateside drop in mind that Japan got a...

The Nike Air Terra Humara was a sneaker already outfitted with everyone’s favorite bubbly running tech when it made its debut, as evidence by the nomenclature, but apparently they weren’t quite bubbly enough to get a 2012 retro of their own accord. Instead the model has been retooled a bit, riding now on a more...

Towards the beginning of 2012 it almost looked like the Jordan Spiz’ike was on its way out, what with the Jordan Son of Mars taking up a similar design space and not too many known colorways on the horizon. Since then things have taken quite the 180, with a ‘Bred’ version on the way and an introduction to the...

Eric Koston proved upon the very launch of his first Nike SB signature sneaker that it could blend seamlessly with cutting edge basketball designs, and being the devoted sneakerhead that he is, Koston simply couldn’t stop there.  For his latest project, Swoosh skateboarding’s mad scientist reached back into the...

We’re bordering on an all-out free for all for cross campus collabos these days, with Converse Jordans and Nike Lunar basketball shoes. What’s next? The apparent answer is this Nike SB x Nike Sportswear team up that sees the relatively recent Nike SB Zoom Koston 1 infused with the staple silhouette of the Nike Air...

With the MLB season in full swing, what better time for Nike’s Griffey line to get a beefing up in terms of the colorways available. Up next is this version of the Nike Air Max Griffey Fury, a bubbly redux of one of Junior’s original silhouettes, featuring a Hyperfuse shell and full-length Max Air. The sneaker...

What else does Nike have circled in the Nike Basketball catalog of the 90′s? We’ve seen the Air Darwin and the NDestrukt return in altered form, so if Nike looks to continue rehashing some of its older models, what else could we possibly see? An Air Max Glove? How about an Air Max Flight ’96? We can only wait...

The Nike Air Max Griffey Fury has been keeping a pretty good pace in 2012, with an almost one to one ratio between months in the year and colorways we’ve gotten our hands on so far. Looking to continue the trend is this pair that has a vaguely Jordan Brand feel to it what with the black/red combo, albeit the colored...

If you’re among the Jordanheads who wanted JB to shift its attention from wild Air Jordan 1 colorways and Air Jordan Force Fusions to more Retros, it suffices to say that the last year-plus has left you happy, if holding an empty bank account.  Interestingly enough, it’s within this context that Jordan...

If we were to hand out ‘sneaker awards’ right now, the trophy for “Most Suprising Sneaker of the Year” is without a doubt the Jordan Son of Mars. Air Jordan hybrid sneakers haven’t always been widely embraced so the projections for the Jordan Son of Mars weren’t much different than what we...

Even in today’s era of smarter shoe-shoppers who have become keen with genuine products, counterfeits continue to be a thorn on the side of the ‘game’. One popular model that these fake-mongers have produced in hives is the faux-360 Max Air hybrids. Fake Air Jordans, Kobes, LeBrons, and Yeezys have been made...

The Air Max Plus has released in a ton of colorways since it was born in 1998 as the TN, but only in the last year or so did this oft-retroed silhouette finally meet with Nike Sportswear’s penchant for hybrids and upgrades. The Air Max Plus 1.5 made obvious the connection between the original design and the Flywire that...

The ‘Bordeaux’ colorway of the Air Jordan VII made a triumphant return last year, and since then, we’ve seen a number of attempts at re-creations on other models – starting with the February release of the Jordan Spiz’ike. However, it was made evident that a more accurate attempt was made for the...

Each of the Nike Air Max 95+ BB colorways we’ve seen to this point have featured some manner of gradient, but not so for this upcoming Atmos collaboration. The Air Max 95+ BB pictured above in a stunning pristine white Hyperfuse upper whose Metallic Gold accents and icy blue sole give these some added style punch from...

The Air Max 95 pushed the limits of what we’d come to expect from Nike’s signature cushioning platform, expanding its visible action from the heel where it’d been sequestered since 1987, all the way up to the toe for the first time. Fitting, then, as we see it come through in a couple new updates this season,...

Puma’s Faas-enfused LTWT series has already made its mark on the German Cat’s most easily identifiable early ’90s runner, so what about its immediate predecessor from whom the Disc Blaze’s familiar lines were an evolution?  The Puma Blaze of Glory LTWT makes up what it lacks in funky enclosure systems...

Puma’s Faas-enfused LTWT series has already made its mark on the German Cat’s most easily identifiable early ’90s runner, so what about its immediate predecessor from whom the Disc Blaze’s familiar lines were an evolution?  The Puma Blaze of Glory LTWT makes up what it lacks in funky enclosure systems...

Puma’s Faas-enfused LTWT series has already made its mark on the German Cat’s most easily identifiable early ’90s runner, so what about its immediate predecessor from whom the Disc Blaze’s familiar lines were an evolution?  The Puma Blaze of Glory LTWT makes up what it lacks in funky enclosure systems...

Puma’s Faas-enfused LTWT series has already made its mark on the German Cat’s most easily identifiable early ’90s runner, so what about its immediate predecessor from whom the Disc Blaze’s familiar lines were an evolution?  The Puma Blaze of Glory LTWT makes up what it lacks in funky enclosure systems...