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" While perusing the Topman website the other day, I made the most delightful discovery, one I hadn&amp;#039;t come across in a number of years: Pony sneakers. (Leave it to the Brits to revive an American classic.) Before Nike was the major player in sports arenas and urban streets, Pony, founded in New York in 1972, went toe-to-toe with Adidas and Puma. And while Puma&amp;#039;s signature shoe may have been the Clyde (for Walt Frazier) and Adidas had its Abdul-Jabbar (for Kareem), don&amp;#039;t forget that Pony had the McAdoo\u2014as in Bob McAdoo, who, before he was an avuncular assistant coach for the Miami Heat, was an All-American at UNC and the NBA Rookie of the Year. Pony was also endorsed by David Thompson\u2014the Michael Jordan before Michael Jordan\u2014and many a hirsute ABA star.  Pony was, in a word, fly. It managed, like Puma and Adidas, to straddle the border between the international\u2014Pel\u00E9 and Ali wore them\u2014and the inner city. During New York&amp;#039;s 1977 blackout, Pony sneakers were as coveted as any loot on Fordham Road or 14th Street. Since its birth, Pony has been sold and re-sold and re-launched (its website is, it reads, in the midst of a &amp;quot;(re)making&amp;quot;), so although the company never really left, it was hard find the actual product. Now, thanks to Topman, a store with a little U.K. attitude, they are easily available in eleven different versions. (By contrast, the brand new J.Crew holiday catalogue features New Balance and Nikes.)  They come in classic red or gray ($120), in a white hi-top style ($140), and they&amp;#039;ve even put a contemporary spin on these two multi-colored versions (at $160 and $180 respectively). All of which are both slightly retro and utterly covetable regardless of whether you&amp;#039;re young enough to think they&amp;#039;re new or old enough to feel a little nostalgic over them.  Now, for that David Thompson highlight reel\u2026 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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