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Professionals share advice with locals - Park Record
Many kids who grow up with Park City in their backyard aren’t content sitting in the audience, watching this year’s latest snowboard movie premiere; their ideas are bigger than that. Many young kids have launched successful athletic careers from the

Macquarie to buy Quiksilver ski company - News.com.au
US sporting goods maker Quiksilver said yesterday it has agreed to sell its Rossignol ski-making group to a company controlled by Macquarie Group. Quiksilver said it had received a binding offer of 100 million ($171.75 million), from Bruno Cercley

Skico, Snowmass team for one-two advertising punch - Aspen Times
The Aspen Skiing Co. is running ads in the major ski and snowboard publications that show the steps its front-line employees have taken to help preserve the environment. An ad currently running in the September edition of SKI Magazine shows Aspen

OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday Report for Friday - Transworld News
OTCPicks.com s Daily Small Cap and Microcap Newsletter presents a range of the hottest small cap stocks on trading on the OTC and OTCBB markets. In addition to our Newsletters, OTCPicks.com is quickly becoming the premier community destination for

Ski and snowboard shops start selling gear while the sun shines - Sacramento Bee
The thermometer might be showing triple digits, but the winter sports/recreation industry is thinking snow. Ski and snowboard shops as well as ski resorts in Sierra Nevada are still smarting from last ski season, which started well at the close of

Camp Muir: A quick altitude adjustment - Seattle Times
Just below Camp Muir, a trail runner picks his way down the Muir Snowfield. The sun-capped snow looks like frozen waves. MIKE MCQUAIDE / FREELANCE The public shelter at Camp Muir, built in 1921, was refurbished four years ago to better withstand

Dussault Apparel(TM) and Gene Simmons MoneyBag(TM) Announces - MSN MoneyCentral
Dussault Apparel, Inc. (OTCBB: DUSS) — Dussault Apparel(TM) Founder, Chairman and Head Designer, Jason Dussault, is pleased to announce that the Company has come to an agreement with prestigious sales representatives LivinTheDream, Inc. and Jeff2

Students get a break - Park Record
Kids considering dropping out of school to ski or snowboard may want to do some research first. Local ski resorts offer discounts to Utah students, and one ski area even gives students who make the honor roll with a cheaper price. Season pass prices

Hudson’s PAX 2008 line-up - gamesindustry.biz
Alien Crush Returns and Bomberman Blast WiiWare to Make First Public Appearances At Show in Booth 261 REDWOOD CITY, CA August 27, 2008 - Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm for HUDSON SOFT, today announced their lineup for the

Accessorize your truck cap - Detroit News
A pickup truck with a cap over the bed can serve as a mobile base camp for a lot of outdoor lifestyle activities, especially if that cap is equipped with equipment that can enhance those pursuits. Truck cap producer Leer of Elkhart, Ind., for example

Quiksilver to sell Rossignol skis to Australia’s Macquarie - Turkishpress.com
A display of Rossignol skis. US sporting goods maker Quiksilver said Wednesday it has agreed to sell its Rossignol ski-making group to a company controlled by Australia’s Macquarie Group. (AFP/File) US sporting goods maker Quiksilver said Wednesday

Olympic venues at a glance: Vancouver area - The Province
The $883.2-million VCEC will be used as the international broadcast and main media centres during the Games and accommodate an estimated 10,000 accredited media. A program is now under way to expand the VCEC to more than triple its current size

Swimmer Proves Point: You Can Overcome Cancer - WCCO
(WCCO) This year, doctors in our country will diagnose about 8,000 men with testicular cancer. That’s about 22 new cases every day, but it can be treated successfully. And Minnesota college student Matt Ellingson is proof that cancer can be overcome

Watch Pink’s new video clip - News.com.au
AFTER weeks on high rotation on local radio, one of Insider’s favourite US pop stars, Pink, has finally unveiled the video clip for her latest chart-topper, So What . Fans won’t be disappointed as the peroxide-blonde singer, displaying the feisty

Balancing act - Philadelphia Daily News
Think back to when you slipped on the ice or in the shower: the ground rushing up, your feet shooting out, terror building even as your mind is working a mile a second to plot a soft landing. This is what Emily Keshner studies, in a lab designed to

Last-minute advice for looking cool - Beacon News
Students scrambling to save money should get help from retailers that are putting low-price jeans on display and reducing their supplies of premium denim. “Value is no longer a dirty word in the denim business,” said Michael Silver, founder of the

Market Close: Dow, S&P and NASDAQ all up thanks to Uncle Ben’s relief - Bloggingstocks.com
Akamai Technologies Inc . (NASDAQ: AKAM) was a very unusual stock today. We saw major call option trading activity in the stock, making some wonder if this stock was in play. Shares were up in today’s final minutes. Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM ) and

NMC students move in, gear up for classes - Traverse City Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Attending Northwestern Michigan College is a matter of family tradition for Parker Zickel. His father and grandfather both went to school there. “I had an option to go to community college where I live, but it’s not the same,” said

WINTER OLYMPICS: Blizzards of odd for Olympians in lycra - Independent
Share ONE of Germany ’s skating coaches has just been exposed as an ex-Stasi agent. An American skeleton trainer is out for patting his charges’ bottoms rather too enthusiastically and another top US competitor has escaped a doping ban because of his

New elders serving East Texas - Palestine Herald-Press
PALESTINE The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sends missionaries throughout the world by two and two to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Recently Elder Francisco received a new companion, Elder Besler, who hails from Salt Lake

Beijing is only the beginning for BMX racing - MSNBC
This is an ongoing series of Olympics cultural reports Sunny Wu is filing from Beijing. Check back twice a day for ‘The Buzz’ and ‘Nightlife.’ BEIJING - Bernard Anderson waited more than 30 years for this moment. After three decades of officiating

Battersea to host global snowboard contest - Staines Guardian
Snowboarders from all over the world will descend on Battersea for Britain s first ever World Snowboard competition, to be broadcast on Channel 4. The LG London Big Air event is taking place at Battersea Power Station on October 25 and will attract

First Details: Stoked, an Open-World Snowboard Game - DailyGame.net
An open-world snowboarding game announced today will be an Xbox 360 exclusive, said publisher Destineer. Called “Stoked,” the game will focus on back-country snowboarding across five open-world mountains. Click the following link to see the first

Recalls: vanilla wafers, frozen cooked mussels - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools Company: Nebraska Beef Ltd. Quantity: 1.36-million pounds. Why? The products may be contaminated with the potentially deadly E. coli O157:H7 . What models? Primal cuts, subprimal cuts and boxed beef produced on June 24 and July 8, 2008

Canadian hopeful in BMX racing - Owen Sound Sun Times
Strap yourself in for a wild ride — BMX racing is about to make its Olympic debut. Samantha Cools of Airdrie, Alta., will make history on Thursday as the first Canadian to compete in the Olympics in BMX (bicycle moto cross), a high-octane event that

BMX rocks its Olympic debut - NBC Olympics
BEIJING — For those about to rock, dude, we salute you, and it rocked hard Wednesday as BMX cycling made its Olympic debut, with cheerleaders, hip-hop dancers, most excellent tunes, blissed-out fans and, best of all, lots of crashes. Just like

A big Day for American BMX riders as sport debuts - USA Today
For American fans, the biggest jolt came from getting all four racers into Thursday’s final rounds. The possibility of matching the 2002 snowboard halfpipe super sweep all three men’s medals plus a women’s gold was still alive.

BMX is the sport where no one grows up - News.com.au
Email article Printer friendly Text size + - Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Post to NewsVine Post to Facebook What are these? BMX is ‘more about getting your manhood out and showing the other guys you’re bigger than them’, says Kamakazi

More skaters switching to longboards - Los Angeles Times
IT WAS the lure of the snow that drew Jia Yee to longboard skateboarding almost two years ago. The UCLA biology student loved the feeling of schussing down a mountain on a snowboard — but she was less enthusiastic about the cost of the winter sport

Melbourne to London for $1000 return with AirAsia X - News.com.au
Passengers will pay extra for meals, entertainment, checked-in luggage and blankets. The Malaysian-based airline yesterday revealed its latest international route between Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur will begin on November 12, with one-way fares

Top Ten New Reasons to Visit Chaffee County - PR.com
Chaffee County Visitor’s Bureau presents ten new reasons to visit Salida, Buena Vista and many areas in between. Salida, CO, August 19, 2008 –( PR.com )– Few things are finer than summer in Chaffee County. Cobalt blue skies and perfect summer time

Recalls: vanilla wafers, frozen cooked mussels - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools Company: Nebraska Beef Ltd. Quantity: 1.36-million pounds. Why? The products may be contaminated with the potentially deadly E. coli O157:H7 . What models? Primal cuts, subprimal cuts and boxed beef produced on June 24 and July 8, 2008

Units: About 3,500 pairs - KAKE TV
Hazard: The t-nuts that attached the buckles to the straps on the snowboard s bindings can detach, posing a fall hazard to consumers. Incidents/Injuries: None reported. Description: This recall involves 2007 model year Rossignol snowboard bindings

The new snowboarding? - Globe and Mail
Forget about the time she fell as a 10-year-old and detached her lip and broke her jaw crashing face-first off a bike. That was then (when she wasn’t wearing a faceguard) and this is the Olympics, said 22-year-old Samantha Cools of Airdrie, Alta

What s next for GM? - Sports Business Journal
There are three industries that helped build and still fund much of American sports: beer, banking and automotive. All three are suffering their own form of change or economic agony, leaving many in sports wondering whether they will continue to

This Year s Model - Nymag.com
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Adventure paddling for a charitable cause - Saratogian
Chris Kaiser poses next to his kayak, which he plans to paddle from Lake George to Ticonderoga and back next month in an effort to raise $10,000 for the Double-H Hole in the Woods Ranch for critically ill children. Photo provided LAKE GEORGE - Chris

Joyful wedding for lung transplant recipient - San Francisco Gate
del.icio.us (08-11) 04:00 PDT Truckee — Nearly five years ago, when Carrie Shellhammer was dying at UCSF Medical Center, she and her mother selected songs for her funeral, which they assumed was just weeks away. On Saturday, those songs were played

Ben Lyons tackles third show - New York Daily News
Ben Lyons , film critic and entertainment correspondent on the E! Network and new co-host of the syndicated program “At the Movies,” is adding one more line to his r sum : host of Nickelodeon ’s “My Family’s Got GUTS.” But the busiest man in

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

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

Friends hold fundraiser for boy injured by homemade fireworks - Daily Herald
As Bridger Hunt lay in surgery Thursday night, his friends were in Orem, hosting a party at Bonneville Park to raise money for him. Complete with a train ride for small children, free hot dogs, cotton candy and games galore, Hunt’s friends said they

Add Lake Tahoe to list of places to see before you die - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Lake Tahoe, Nev. It’s a weird feeling to look down at a clear, blue sky. You want to grab something solid, check your bearings. A tree would be nice. But if you happen to be drifting in a sea kayak on mirror-smooth Lake Tahoe, there are no solid

Joyful wedding for lung transplant recipient - San Francisco Gate
del.icio.us (08-11) 04:00 PDT Truckee — Nearly five years ago, when Carrie Shellhammer was dying at UCSF Medical Center, she and her mother selected songs for her funeral, which they assumed was just weeks away. On Saturday, those songs were played

Buying Ski and Snowboard Equipment Like Burton, K2, Ride and Other - Earthtimes
BOYERTOWN, Pa. - (Business Wire) Buying ski and snowboard equipment / apparel like Burton, K2, Ride and other popular brands just got a lot easier thanks to the all new Buckman s Ski Shops website ( www.buckmans.com ) that launched on August, 1

Watkins Glen: Earnhardt Jr grid position interview - Motorsport.com
“It is good for us if we can maintain the track position all day, that is really going to be the key, just trying to maintain it. It gives us a good opportunity so we don’t really have to try certain strategies like we have in the past to get there

NBC: All Olympics, all the time - CNN Sports Illustrated
NBC and its networks will present 3,600 total hours of Olympic coverage Roughly 2,200 hours of live coverage will be streamed online Network persuaded IOC to schedule events to make them more time-friendly NBC convinced the IOC to schedule some

Tatum jumps into Parkour picture - Variety
New Line is planning production early next year on an untitled drama about Parkour — a free-jumping extreme sport in which agile practitioners run and jump from rooftops — with Richie Smyth making his feature helming bow and Channing Tatum to star

Rock star skiing just a flight away - News.com.au
IF, like me, you know there’s a pampered celebrity inside you waiting to get out, but you’re on a pleb’s budget, then the latest fly-to-the-snow service is likely to appeal. Lilydale Air Services pilot/operations manager Jonathan Merridew likes to

Bike aficionados gear up for film festivals - Boston Globe
This is the Year of the Rat, according to the Chinese calendar. But 2008 may well go down in Boston as the Year of the Bike: The city’s new bike lanes are almost ready for riders, more people than ever are dusting off Schwinns and pulling on Lycra

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

A Marine amputee marches on - Chicago Tribune
CAMP BARBER, Afghanistan Just over a year ago, Cpl. Garrett Jones was one of thousands of Marines slogging through a tour of duty in Iraq. Today, he is deployed with the same unit in Afghanistan, but he serves now with an unusual distinction. On

Buying Ski and Snowboard Equipment Like Burton, K2, Ride and Other - Forbes
Buying ski and snowboard equipment / apparel like Burton, K2, Ride and other popular brands just got a lot easier thanks to the all new Buckman’s Ski Shops website (www.buckmans.com) that launched on August, 1st through Media Fusion Technologies (MFT

Sport Chalet Opens Store in Queen Creek, Arizona - Forbes
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sport Chalet, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPCHA, SPCHB) is proud to celebrate the grand opening of its new 42,000 sq. ft. store located at 21566 South Ellsworth Loop Road, Queen Creek, Arizona 85242. The Queen Creek