Seventh grade Alexis couldn't be more excited to announce: I AM AN ADIDAS BLOGGER! I recently received the news, and I've been waiting to finally share it with all of you! Over the weekend, I thought of the role adidas played in my formative years and in college, and I started to realize that I have quietly been a huge adidas fan for most of my life! My favorite shoes in middle school were my white adidas Gazelles with metallic silver stripes. I wore those shoes until they had a huge hole in them, and I had no shame! That same year, I also received a pair of adidas slides - you know, the ones with the bumps on the footbed? - and I wore those up until about five years ago. I'm not going to tell you how many years that was, but I will tell you that I should have retired them and performed an upgrade at least a decade earlier. In college, adidas was our sponsor when I played volleyball at both Rutgers-Newark and Long Island University-Brooklyn (I transferred ...