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BBC Slopestyle Announcers Prove The U.S. Holds No Monopoly On Homerism
Coming into Sochi, the Great Britain national Olympic team had never won a medal on the snow at the Winter Games, going 0-56 in the events throughout history. That changed today when Bristol snowboarder Jenny Jones earned bronze in slopestyle. Her performance—good enough to put her, at the moment, i...
Team U.S.A. Has Its First Gold Medal And The Pictures Are Awesome
Sage Kotsenburg won America its first gold today in Snowboard Men's Slopestyle and, as you might imagine, a human flying through the air in front of snowcapped mountains is wonderful eye candy. ...
Slopestyle Matryoshka Doll Lets 'Boarders 50/25/12.5/6.25/3.125 Grind
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Hey! The Olympics Have Started
Though the opening ceremony doesn't begin for another day, today has already seen the start of qualification in the men's and women's slopestyle snowboarding, and in a little bit, women's moguls and the first parts of the new team figure skating competition. ...
Shaun White: All Moussed Up
From Elizabeth Weil's New York Times Magazine profile:...
Bob Costas On New Olympic Snowboarding Events: "<em>Jackass</em> Stuff"
Bob Costas irritated the snowboarding crowd yesterday on Today, calling the sport's new events in the 2014 Olympics "Jackass stuff."...
495 Degrees Per Second: How Olympic Snowboarding Gold Medalist Kelly Clark Hucks Herself
Kelly Clark is the two-time defending X Games Gold Medalist in Women's Superpipe. She won gold in Salt Lake in '02 and bronze in Vancouver in 2010. At the 2011 X Games she became the first woman to land a 1080 in competition. The 30th U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships are going on right now, and ...
Shaun White Just Got The First Ever Perfect Score In SuperPipe—On His Victory Run
The classical ideal of perfection in athletics was defined by physical prowess displayed artistically. Modern tastes have added "swagger," "attitude," or perhaps just pride to that equation....
At Least We Have Fair Warning That There Are Nude Photos Of Shaun White In The Universe
There are reportedly nude photos of snowboarder-skateboarder-shredder-bro Shaun White out in the universe, America. Set your RSS filters accordingly: TMZ reports that "the ginger carpet matches the ginger drapes." Happy Monday! [TMZ, NY Post]...
Olympic Pothead Is Now High On Civil Service
Ross Rebagliati—everyone's favorite dope smoking Olympic snowboarder—is running for a seat in Canada's parliament. You see, in Canada, election districts are called "ridings" and he probably just got confused because he was so freakin' high. [CTV/Victoria Times]...
Shaun White's Dopey, Training-Wheels Arrest
We enjoyed the ascension of snowboarder — or whatever it is that he does — Shaun White to American hero after the 2006 Olympics. It seemed like a teenage doof being promoted to sports superstar. We were really just counting the days until a weed arrest....
NBA Roundup: Cowabunga, Dude!
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......