{"id":4384,"date":"2009-01-21T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T19:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2009-01-21T22:43:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T06:43:52","slug":"aspen-extreme-until-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4384","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Extreme Until 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/images-1.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/images-1.jpeg','popup','width=128,height=142,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/images-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"110\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Images-1\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/actionsports\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a><\/strong> announced today that they have extended their deal with <strong>The Aspen Skiing Company<\/strong> until 2012, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/article\/20090121\/NEWS\/901219942\/1077&amp;ParentProfile=1058&amp;title=Winter%20X%20Games%20to%20stay%20in%20Aspen%20until%202012\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Winter%20X%20Games%20to%20stay%20in%20Aspen%20until%202012\">Aspen Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. And why not? Aspen is the perfect place for the over-the-top theatrics of televised snowboarding.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAspen has been a terrific partner,\u201d said <strong>Rick Alessandri<\/strong>, the managing director of ESPN\u2019s Global X Franchise. \u201cThey\u2019ve always been enthusiastic. They\u2019ve always been supportive of our desire to keep growing our event.\u201d . . . \u201cThere\u2019s something special here,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s kind of this idyllic setting with the community and the mountains and this being a resort destination. It seemed to be the perfect fit. We always try to provide the athletes with the best facilities and the best experience. We have that here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like Aspen is going to become the <strong>Branson, Missouri<\/strong> of extreme sports. We can hardly wait to see the <strong>Stephen Fisher<\/strong> dinner show in <strong>The ESPN Superpipe Theater<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/article\/20090121\/NEWS\/901219942\/1077&amp;ParentProfile=1058&amp;title=Winter%20X%20Games%20to%20stay%20in%20Aspen%20until%202012\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Winter%20X%20Games%20to%20stay%20in%20Aspen%20until%202012\">Aspen Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN announced today that they have extended their deal with The Aspen Skiing Company until 2012, according to a story in the Aspen Times. And why not? Aspen is the perfect place for the over-the-top theatrics of televised snowboarding. \u201cAspen has been a terrific partner,\u201d said Rick Alessandri, the managing director of ESPN\u2019s Global X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}