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Two small Christian colleges take a stand against Nike over its Colin Kaepernick ad campaign

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By Cindy Boren | The Washington Post

Nike’s new ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, whose kneeling demonstration during the national anthem started a controversy that engulfed the NFL last season and drew the ire of President Trump, has cost it a relationship with at least two small colleges.

Truett McConnell University, a liberal arts school with about 2,600 students in the northern Georgia community of Cleveland, will no longer offer Nike products in its campus store. And athletic teams at the College of the Ozarks, a liberal arts college with about 1,500 students in the southwest Missouri community of Point Lookout, will no longer wear Nike gear, with the volleyball team switching to gray T-shirts until replacement clothes arrived.