Looks like NBA China is going to be taking a little more of Heidi Ueberroth’s time in the coming months.
Heidi Ueberroth, global business executive of the National Basketball Association, has stepped down as a director of Huntington Beach-based Quiksilver Inc. as she works on launching an NBA league in China.
Seems like she could have done business for both brands while she was there.
[Link: Orange County Business Journal]
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Snowboardcross on Wii with the goofy Deca Sports cartoon characters that’s probably going to be way more fun to play that any of those hyper-real snowboard games that everyone was building three years ago.
Get a copy when Deca Sports goes on sale on May 13, 2008.
[Link: CrunchGear]
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Following the Solana Beach shark attack in which a 66-year-old triathlete was killed, the sharks in Florida have been going off. Three bites in three days at New Smyrna Beach.
The latest attack happened Monday as David Alger, 18, was surfing south of the jetty. . . . The beach patrol said he stepped off his board and was bitten on his left foot. . . . Over the weekend, two other surfers were bitten in separate incidents.
[Link: CF News 13]
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Think about the harassment this kid will get for the rest of his life:
The fire brigade was called to Hemel Hempstead Hospital after a teenager got a skateboard bearing stuck on his finger last Sunday (April 20). . . Staff in Hemel Hempstead Hospital’s A&E department called fire crews after they could not remove a bearing from a skateboard wheel that a youth had got wedged on his middle finger on his left hand.
Firemen tried using a hacksaw blade to remove it,ADVERTISEMENT but it wouldn’t budge. Unable to get it off, they turned to the Adeyfield car parts and accessory shop, Motorway Belts and Components LTD. Using the shop’s grinder they were able to free they teen’s finger.
Kids, keep those fingers away from your bearings.
[Link: Hemel Today]
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Remember Dale Webster? He’s the completely spun surfer from Northern California who was featured in Dana Brown’s Step into Liquid? Well, he’s still at it according to Sports Illustrated’s Chris Ballard.
Every day for the last 32 years, every single day, he has surfed. He heads out each morning in Bodega Bay, a blustery town on the northern California coast, and paddles into the 50° water, a worn-out 59-year-old in a worn-out wet suit. He’s caught waves during howling storms, while wracked by kidney stones and, once, within snapping distance of a Volvo-sized great white (“never paddled so hard in my life,” he says). He’s gone through 35-plus wet suits and as many surfboards, and he’s scraped off 45 pounds of surf wax, all of it preserved in a gooey, browning mound in his backyard. All that cold water has narrowed his ear canals, and his eyes are bloodshot and glassy, in need of surgery.
Having surfed 96 days straight once before in our lives we can say this: running streaks like that is enough to drive a man deeply, irrevocably crazy. We don’t care what anyone says, Dale Webster is crazy.
[Link: Sports Illustrated]
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After seeing all the things that Bam has no problem sharing with the world via his Jackass escapades, him having sex would probably be one of the least offensive things we’ve seen. But that’s exactly what is reportedly on it’s way via a pay-per-view website.
The TV star – who has previously been romantically linked to Jessica Simpson – is allegedly shown in the tape performing sex acts with blonde Lindsay Hughes, the fiancee of New York radio host Gregg ‘Opie’ Hughes.
U.S. magazine Steppin’ Out reports the tape has been obtained by a former employee of Gregg Hughes, who is now considering taking legal action in a bid to stop the film being published on the Internet. . . . The publication’s Chaunce Hayden tells New York gossip column PageSix, “They’re doing the nasty – and I mean nasty. Hughes is taking legal action to prevent its distribution.
[Link: New York Post]
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Masterminded criminal by night, pro snow and skate shred by day. Shaun While’s Colorado arraignment has been moved to May 2, 2008. Then he will face the music for the heinous crime of “setting off a fire extinguisher at the Beaver Run Resort in Breckenridge,” according to The Aspen Times.
If Kobe Bryant is any guide, Colorado courts are pretty tough on athletes. Hopefully, things will go easier for Mr. White.
[Link: The Aspen Times]
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According to the Houston Chronicle William M. Barnum Jr., a director of Zumiez Inc. just bought 54,937 shares of Zumiez.
In a Form 4 filed with the SEC, William M. Barnum Jr. reported he bought the shares for $18.05 to $18.40 apiece on Thursday.
Wonder if he knows anything?
[Link: Chron.com]
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According to the Orlando Sentinel, A 14-year-old girl was bitten on the foot by a shark while surfing Volusia County Beach.
The teen was surfing near Minorca condominiums between 8 and 9a.m. when she stepped off her board in knee-deep water and was bitten on her right foot. She was taken to Bert Fish Memorial Hospital and treated for puncture wounds and lacerations.
We’re glad she’s okay. Apparently that section of the beach is pretty sharky.
[Link: Orlando Sentinel]
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The surfing community lost one of its most OG members when Parker “Woody” Brown died Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Hale Makua, Kahului, Hawaii. He was 96.
“Woody Brown was one of the first and greatest icons in the history of surfing,” state Sen. Fred Hemmings said Friday.
“He was the essential surfer, an iconoclast: extremely independent, futuristic and, most especially, healthy — which explains why he lived for 96 very productive, wonderful years,” said Hemmings, the 1968 world surfing champion who inaugurated the world professional surfing circuit in 1975. “… I only hope more of us who call ourselves surfers can live the way Woody lived.
Woody Brown is survived by his wife, Macrene; three sons, Woody Brown Jr., William Parker Brown and Jeffrey Sellon; two daughters, Mary Sue Gannon and Jennifer Snyder; and 10 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
He will be missed, but his legacy will live on.
[Link: Honolulu Advertiser]
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