Category: Trucking News

Champion runner Mary Cain details emotional, physical abuse at Nike

World champion runner Mary Cain wrote a blistering op ed in the New York Times with the headline: "I was the fastest girl in America, until I joined Nike." The piece is a huge indictment of the brand and its now defunct elite Oregon Project. Cain, who had joined the Oregon Project at age 16, claimed that her body started to break down under the rigorous training required of the athletes on the team, which was overseen by disgraced coach Alberto Salazar.  "I was emotionally and physically abused by a system designed by Alberto and endorsed by Nike,” Cain told the Times. ...

Pyxus International Posts Quarterly Net Loss Of $16.5M

Tobacco and cannabis company Pyxus International, Inc. (NYSE: PYX), reported a net second-quarter loss of $16.5 million Thursday, down from a net loss of $54.63 million in the same period last year. The lower net loss is mostly thanks to a $32.1-million decrease in income tax cost and a 3.2% increase in gross margin, Pyxus said in a press release. "[The] focus on improving performance across all of our businesses during the first half of fiscal year 2020 provided a platform on which we intend to build,” Pieter Sikkel, the company's chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement....