In the three months prior to Nike’s controversial marketing campaign with Colin Kaepernick, earnings at the athletic retailer soared to $9.9 billion, a 10 percent increase from a year earlier.

Profits at the Beaverton, Ore.-based company rose 15 percent to $1.1 billion.

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