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Colorado Ski Country USA - Denver Business Journal
Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) was established in 1963 with the purpose of promoting skiing in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region, in the face of east coast and European competition. Forty years later, CSCUSA is the marketing, communications

Lakers chosen two: Basile, McKenney named Sierra Sun Athletes of - Sierra Sun
Enrollment at North Tahoe High School may have waned in recent years, but the quality of its athletic department never seems to waver. Year in and year out, a slew of Laker seniors establish themselves if they hadn t already as standouts on

Reserved Johnson standing out in O’s bullpen - Baltimore Sun
Jim Johnson’s personal bio section in the Orioles’ media guide is one line. Fourteen words, to be exact. It lists his nickname as “J.J.” That he graduated from a high school in New York and was signed by scout Jim Howard. That’s it. It’s not as if

Quiksilver, Inc. to Broadcast Review of Fiscal 2008 Second Quarter - MSN MoneyCentral
Quiksilver, Inc. ZQK today announced that the Company’s conference call to review its fiscal 2008 second quarter financial results is expected to be broadcast live over the Internet on Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The broadcast

Alpine skiing-Schladming to host 2013 world championships - ESPN.com
CAPE TOWN, May 29 - The Austrian resort of Schladming will host the world Alpine skiing championships in 2013, the International Ski Federation (FIS) decided at its annual congress in Cape Town on Thursday. Schladming, which hosted the championships

Supergirls take back the sky - USA Today
Before Lyn-Z Adams was old enough to vote, she had won 10 medals in the sport’s most prestigious events: the ESPN X Games, Gravity Games and Vans Triple Crown. The former competitive surfer ruled the women’s vert, park and street disciplines and

Ubisoft Reinvents Action Sports Video Games with Shaun White - Forbes
Today Ubisoft announces the development of Shaun White Snowboarding, a title destined to break all former action sports video game notions and redefine the action sports genre. The game will appear on the Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment

Bahamian snowboarder on ‘Wright’ path to make Olympic history - Forbes
NASSAU, Bahamas, May 28 /PRNewswire/ - Stop a Bahamian on the street to ask them about snowboarding, and you may get a number of funny looks, but that is all about to change. At a beachside reception, escorted by a Junkanoo band, and joined by

Johnson wait worth it - Baltimore Sun
Jim Johnson’s biography section in the Orioles’ media guide is one line. Fourteen words, to be exact. It lists his nickname as “J.J.” That he graduated from a high school in New York and was signed by scout Jim Howard. That’s it. It’s not as if there

SV Readership Poll - Surfers Village
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Teen remembered for her humor and faith - Rutland Herald
Hundreds of Christine Kelley Besaw’s friends and family gathered at Roadside Chapel Assembly of God in Rutland Town to remember the 17-year-old who died May 18 in a car crash. The Rev. Robert Rainville, who officiated the service, said her family

Summer time in ski country - Chicago Sun-Times
Atop the lofty 11,053-foot summit of California’s Mammoth Mountain, my 12-year-old son and I hopped on our mountain bikes, adjusted our helmets and bucked up our courage for the nearly 3,000-foot descent down to the village far below. “Wow,” said an

Autistic author tackles disability - Edmonton Sun
In most respects, Alexandre Lynch is every bit a normal kid. He’s fond of his dog, loves to snowboard and shows a little shyness around adults. But such normalcy hides something remarkable. The 11-year-old has recently become one of Edmonton’s

Natascha McElhone: I can’t believe I won’t feel his skin any more - Daily Mail
Professionally, he transformed lives. Personally, his impact on those he loved was no less seismic.But four days ago, Martin Kelly, one of Britain’s most celebrated cosmetic surgeons, died. Without warning, Martin, an apparently fit and healthy 42

Mario Creator Miyamoto Wants Us To Be a Wii Bit More Fit - Top Tech News
During play the balance board becomes a snowboard, skis or a tightrope. The game’s fitness regimen includes yoga, aerobics and strength training, as well as tracking of your weight and body mass index. You can even jog without the board, holding the

Natascha McElhone: I can’t believe I won’t feel his skin any more - Daily Mail
Professionally, he transformed lives. Personally, his impact on those he loved was no less seismic.But four days ago, Martin Kelly, one of Britain’s most celebrated cosmetic surgeons, died. Without warning, Martin, an apparently fit and healthy 42

Summer time in ski country - Chicago Sun-Times
Atop the lofty 11,053-foot summit of California’s Mammoth Mountain, my 12-year-old son and I hopped on our mountain bikes, adjusted our helmets and bucked up our courage for the nearly 3,000-foot descent down to the village far below. “Wow,” said an

Our readers’ views - Columbian
After reading several letters from gun control nuts, I was wondering when they would join the knife control nuts. A gun normally announces its use with a large bang, whereas knives are silent. Guns require some expertise in the proper use to actually

Wachusett Mountain - Hartford Courant
In Princeton, Mass., Wachusett Mountain offers views of Boston from the top of its peak. Season pass holders here also can receive deals at some of Vermont’s best resorts, including Sugarbush and Stratton. Wachusett features 20 trails, seven lifts

Product Recalls - Newsday
Thousands of sleeping bags and magic wands contaminated by excessive levels of lead paint are being recalled by the Walt Disney Co., federal inspectors said Thursday. The recall targets 4,100 Pirates of the Caribbean sleeping bags and 8,000 Tinker

Teen remembered for her humor and faith - Rutland Herald
Hundreds of Christine Kelley Besaw’s friends and family gathered at Roadside Chapel Assembly of God in Rutland Town to remember the 17-year-old who died May 18 in a car crash. The Rev. Robert Rainville, who officiated the service, said her family

Americans switching focus to value - San Antonio Express News
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. At The Wine Rack, where sales from the $10-and-under shelves are booming, Jocelyn Vorbach says aloud what most of her customers won’t: Friendships now have price tags, and dinner guests are gauged. There are friends who get

Euro Lakers two wins from NBA Finals - ESPN.com
Talent trained in Europe and teamed in Los Angeles has been a key for the Lakers this season. The key to the Los Angeles Lakers’ better-than-ever chemistry is their increased reliance on foreign players including Kobe Bryant . Yes, you can count

Wild Files - Idaho8.com
Rain or shine, Memorial Day weekend is a fisherman’s frenzy. But for Dan Schofield it’s not just a sport and it’s not just a passion. We here in Southeast Idaho are no strangers to bears and with the arrival of spring, grizzlies and black bears are

RECALLS THIS WEEK: Wall Ovens Candle Holders Sold by Home Depot - HuntingtonNews.Net
Frigidaire Canada is recalling Kenmore Wall Ovens sold nationwide from September 2004 to October 2007. During extended broiling, gas can build in the oven cavity and escape when the oven door is opened. This poses a burn and possible fire hazard

Market’s Dozing With PacSun - Motley Fool
You don’t expect the market to like dour earnings news, but Wall Street is putting on its best Rip Van Winkle act and is acting astonished — shocked!, I tell you — that Pacific Sunwear (Nasdaq: PSUN ) is having a rough go of it. The teen retailer

Shigeru Miyamoto: The Wizard of Wii - Time
Shigeru Miyamoto, senior managing director and general manager of the entertainment analysis and development division for Nintendo. Shigeru Miyamoto is revered among video gamers for creating a legion of adventures filled with goofy heroes like Mario

Workers make progress on Weston Skate Park - Wausau Daily Herald
WESTON — Skaters, get ready. Construction has begun on the Weston Skate Park at Kennedy Park. Village crews finished site work earlier this month, and crews from Dreamland Skateparks started construction the same day. “Everything is going really

The lure of the outdoors - Chicago Tribune
Midwesterners have a long history of amusing themselves with ice and snow, and some of the best places for frozen fun are along the region’s freshwater inland coasts and shorelines — winter wonderlands of sculpted waterfalls, cliffs and canyons

Brain Scans as Mind Readers? Don’t Believe the Hype - Wired
“So here’s your brain,” the doctor says, as the center of my mental life pirouettes before me, rendered in electric blues and reds. Daniel Amen, MD, manipulates the screen image with a few taps on his keyboard. “It looks good, pretty symmetrical. Red

Peace Arch Entertainment Announces Completion of Licensing - MSN MoneyCentral
Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. (AMEX: PAE) (TSX: PAE), an integrated global entertainment company, today announced that it has completed licensing agreements in key international territories for 31 motion pictures and television series at the

Donner Summit resorts turning to wind energy - Sierra Sun
As renewable energy gains popularity, Tahoe Basin ski resorts continue to market themselves as environmentally-friendly organizations. But some area-resorts are doing more than just marketing. By June 2008, Boreal Mountain Resort and Soda Springs

Candleholders, children’s blankets recalled - Hartford Courant
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced thousands of recalls, including toys, snowboard bindings and children blankets. About 14,000 sun-shaped candleholders, manufactured in China and imported by The Home Depot , were recalled because

Toys, snowboard bindings, blankets among new recalls - Newsday
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced thousands of recalls, including toys, snowboard bindings and children blankets. About 14,000 sun-shaped candle holders, manufactured in China and imported by The Home Depot , were recalled because

K2 recalls snowboard bindings - Seattle Business Journal
Just in time for spring, Molbak’s nursery in Woodinville is sporting a new look [Seattle] Sturtevant’s ski shop passes to the next generation and faces a tough slope ahead [Seattle] K2 recalls Marker ski bindings [Seattle] K2 Sports said it’s

Wii Fit: Gonna Make You Sweat - FOX News
May 19: Maritza Soto of the Bronx tries out Wii Fit during Nintendo’s public launch event in Manhattan’s Central Park. May 19: Maritza Soto of the Bronx tries out Wii Fit during Nintendo’s public launch event in Manhattan’s Central Park. Nintendo’s

Shigeru Miyamoto: The Wizard of Wii - Time
Shigeru Miyamoto, senior managing director and general manager of the entertainment analysis and development division for Nintendo. Shigeru Miyamoto is revered among video gamers for creating a legion of adventures filled with goofy heroes like Mario

in light of this action, are Francophone Games or First Nations hockey - Globe and Mail
Richard G from British Columbia, Canada writes: Who needs any other form of entertainment when you can have the globe comments section. The above posts are hilarious. I honestly don’t know whats funnier, Cosmo/Dick’s posts or S from Canada’s

Brain Scans as Mind Readers? Don’t Believe the Hype - Wired
“So here’s your brain,” the doctor says, as the center of my mental life pirouettes before me, rendered in electric blues and reds. Daniel Amen, MD, manipulates the screen image with a few taps on his keyboard. “It looks good, pretty symmetrical. Red

Product Recalls - FOX News
_About 14,000 sun-shaped candle holders, manufactured in China and imported by The Home Depot, because sunlight traveling through the glass decoration can cause nearby objects to catch fire. The company has received one report of a fire. No injuries

Candleholders, children’s blankets recalled - Hartford Courant
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced thousands of recalls, including toys, snowboard bindings and children blankets. About 14,000 sun-shaped candleholders, manufactured in China and imported by The Home Depot , were recalled because

Group of women ski jumpers plan to file lawsuit against Vancouver - International Herald Tribune
VANCOUVER, British Columbia : A group of women ski jumpers are going to court in an attempt to have their sport included in the 2010 Winter Olympics. A statement of claim will be filed in British Columbia Supreme Court on Wednesday against the

Going for it on a glacier: spectacular spring skiing - Miami Herald
The price you pay for the solitude of the Blackcomb glacier is the long, flat cat track back to the lifts. David Moore of Los Angeles skis the cat track in late February. May is here, which typically means ski season is gone. But that doesn’t have to

Edward Burns best man for the job in 27 Dresses - News.com.au
NEWS.com.au has this exclusive interview with former supermodel Christy Turlington’s hubby. In the movie Jane Nichols’s (played by Katherine Heigl) whole life is defined by the kiss and knowing it is the right person, was it like that for you in real

Portland spirit spawns indie label outerwear - Portland Tribune
Holden Outerwear has core values that many Portlanders cherish: keeping things small, doing it yourself and being as environmentally friendly as possible. The company began in 2000 as the brainchild of a professional snowboarder, Mike Leblanc, and a

APU’s Flora earns national coach award - Anchorage Daily News
Erik Flora, head coach at Alaska Pacific University’s Nordic Ski Center, has been honored as the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association’s Cross Country Domestic Coach of the Year and Development Coach of the Year. Flora and 13 others will be honored

Romance reigns on the ranges - News.com.au
THE ski boots are off, the feet resting, a warming drink is in the hand and icy-cold cheeks are thawing by the flicker of a roaring log fire. Outside it’s snowing, inside you’re glowing as endorphins rush through your body from the adrenalin-charged

Carving a Niche - Time
Professional skier Pernilla Wiberg takes to the slopes in Switzerland with Rossignol Attraction XI skis and ELECTRA 14 boots, both of which are made specifically for women. The U.S. ski industry should send a couple of season passes to downhiller

Breaking the Rules: Desert Safaris After Dark - ABC News
Often called the Las Vegas of the Middle East, Dubai has a nighttime cityscape dotted with the usual suspects: Euro-style clubs, visiting DJs and niche establishments — think discos dealing in Arabic or Persian pop. A belly dancer entertains on a

TELUS Reports First Quarter Results - MSN MoneyCentral
(Operating revenues increase 7% driven by wireless and data) VANCOUVER, May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - TELUS Corporation today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2008, including revenue of $2.35 billion, a 6.6 per cent increase from

Ahead of the Bell: Analysts weigh in on Crocs, Zumiez - Boston Globe
NEW YORK A JPMorgan analyst cut his estimates on Crocs Inc. late Wednesday after the shoe maker posted lower-than-expected first-quarter results. Robert Samuels cut his 2008 outlook to $1.68 per share from $1.70 per share in a note to investors

New 2.1M plan of action - Middleton Guardian
STEVE Bloomer of Rochdale Council s Housing Market Renewal Team brings you up to date with the latest developments in Langley A LOT of work is taking place now to bring the proposals for Langley to the next stage and some of this is detailed

Army Sgt. Timothy M. Smith, 25, South Lake Tahoe; killed by bomb - Los Angeles Times
Timothy M. Smith had always been a daredevil, flying off homemade jumps in a wagon attached to his friend’s bike or attacking the half-pipe on his snowboard. The native of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., brought the same intensity to the Army, leading his

Tracking aliens, love and life since the ’90s - AZCentral.com
HOLLYWOOD — The cast and crew of the upcoming “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” were just a few weeks into filming in Vancouver, British Columbia, when Frank Spotnitz, the co-writer and co-producer with creator-director Chris Carter, called star

HUDSON ENTERTAINMENT RELEASES NEW DECA SPORTS TEASER TRAILER - MCV
Hudson Entertainment today released a new teaser trailer for DECA SPORTS Wii, along with a set of fresh new screen shots showing off its upcoming 10-sport Wii game. The new teaser trailer highlights three of the sports in the game: soccer, badminton

Fuel TV Announces May Programming Highlights - Surfline
FUEL TV, the only network dedicated to the lifestyle of action sports, launches the eighth season of “Drive Thru New Zealand” on Sunday, May 18, beginning at 8:30pm ET/PT. “Drive Thru New Zealand” takes a wild ride through the lives of some of the

David Duchovny, Mr. X-Files, says, ‘God, what a great love affair’ - Los Angeles Times
THE CAST and crew of the upcoming “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” were just a few weeks into filming in Vancouver when Frank Spotnitz, the co-writer and co-producer with creator-director Chris Carter, called star David Duchovny over to a laptop

Olympics | Ex-UW pole vaulter is No. 1 in the world - Seattle Times
Meet Brad Walker, Seattle’s most anonymous superstar. He’s a pro, but not a Sonic, a Mariner or a Seahawk. Unlike any of them, he’s ranked No. 1 in the world in his sport: pole vaulting. He’s the favorite for Olympic gold in Beijing this summer. He