Roundball Coach AAU and Shoe News AAU Boys Basketball Super Regional Championship to be Held in Dallas-Ft. Worth Area AAU Junior Olympics return to Davis, California Nike shifts grass roots basketball approach Nike will eliminate its All-American Camp, an invitation-only event and replace it with positional skill camps that are designed to improve fundamentals. Nike also plans to host an eight-team global challenge featuring teams from the United States and abroad, likely to be held in Oregon, and will organize regional tournaments featuring high school teams.  Check out the whole story in the Oregonian. Adidas and Nike cut ties with summer camps    Adidas will no longer run its summer camp in Suwannee, Ga. and Nike is doing the same and cutting ties with its Indianapolis camp.  No word on Reebok.  For more details and speculation, check out Andy Katz's story   Nike ending camp in Indy     Kevin Cantwell, director of basketball operations at the Suwanee Sports Academy, discusses Adidas' decision and the current climate in AAU basketball in this audio interview with Roundball Coach.   The Oregonian newspaper looks at the questionable aspects of the shoe company’s involvement in amateur basketball through the experiences of top prospect Kevin Love.  Click here to read   Vaccaro Proposes National Prep Basketball Academy Sonny Vaccaro, Reebok's director of grass-roots basketball, has proposed to the NBA, the NCAA, USA Basketball and the shoe companies the concept of a national prep basketball academy that would train several dozen ninth thru 12th grade players while they attended local high schools.  Please read more about this idea in this Washington Post article.   For an audio conversation on this subject please join Toombs County High School (GA) Head Coach Donnie Arrington and Barney by clicking here. On September 26 representatives NBA, NCAA, USA Basketball, the AAU, National Federation of State High School Associations, the National Association of Basketball Coaches and athletic apparel companies agreed to report back early next year with recommendations on possible courses of action.  Read more in the Los Angeles Times.   Roundball Coach would like to know your opinions on Vaccaro's idea, please join us in a discussion of this subject in our Roundball Coach Forum.