Tony Hawk: Trick Tips, an iPhone app that we haven’t even checked out yet, is reportedly the number one spot in Top Paid Sports on the iTunes App Store, according to a recent press release.
Hawk has been hailed for his creative online interaction with his fan base and this week reached a Twitter following of over 2 million. . . . “I am thrilled to be able to reach both new riders and loyal fans with these new apps. While I wish I could personally teach everyone who wants to learn. But for now, this is the next best thing,” Hawk said.
Wonder if people think this app will help them play Tony Hawk Ride?
Yep, as Hannah Teter said last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: “gotta defend.” To answer a common Hannah Teter question: No, she’s pretty much always like that. We’re kind of bummed Tom Arnold didn’t try to kiss her. . . maybe next time.
So the beacher report, a blog that apparently covers sports and hot girls, says that Summer Spiro is Shaun White’s girlfriend and one of the “sports WAGs to watch this year.” They say:
The blond beauty is the girlfriend of the multi-talented Shaun White, who will be shredding up the Olympics for a second time. . . Spiro is not just a pretty face. She’s a musician who has a band with her sister Ruby called—wait for it—Ruby Summer.
Obviously, we’ve been so distracted by Shaun’s double-doubles that we completely forgot about his love life. We apologize and hope it doesn’t happen again.
[Editors’ Note: We thought it was clearly obvious in the above post that we know nothing about Mr. White’s love life or who his girlfriend is. We were merely pointing out what the bleacher report was saying. Today we got an email from Shaun’s Red Bull handlers saying the story is “not true, can you please remove off your site. Shaun’s girlfriend is not Summer Spiro.” We reworked one sentence to clear things up.]
[Editors’ Note on previous Editors’ Note: Today we received a second email from Shaun White’s handlers at Red Bull. This time with the following message: “Thanks, it’s really not a big deal. The photo is actually not even of Summer, so bleacher reports just release a false story, no worries. Can you please remove the additional note you put, regarding my communication, please.” So for the record: bleacher report made up their post entirely. They probably should have used this photo instead then they only would have been half wrong.]
Mammoth Mountain founder Dave McCoy, 94, is one of the world’s best examples of how to live life well. In his nearly century of life he has never stopped learning and trying new things.
He was the first to promote mountain biking at a ski resort, raced motocross well into his 80s, skied into his 90s, and most recently has taken up photography after friends gave him a digital camera, according to a story in the LA Times.
At 94, McCoy has archived hundreds of thousands of photographs in his home computer, which is connected to a 52-inch flat-screen television monitor used to critique and manipulate the images. . . . A tireless shutterbug, he prowls the Eastern Sierra’s 5,000 miles of backcountry roads several days each week on an all-terrain vehicle known as a Rhino, toting an array of sophisticated cameras he calls “my six-shooters.”
He is and always has been a great, gracious, and generous man. And we’re glad he’s still getting it done.
Snowboarding doesn’t seem like a place you would find a hot athlete. It normally attracts tomboys and women who don’t really care about their looks as much. But we did hit the jackpot with Gretchen Bleiler. . . This sexy snow bunny is an Olympic silver medalist and a golf medalist in the Olympic bikini competition that I just made up. Congratulations.
When Gretchen did the FHM shoot did she every think it would be following her around all these years like a crazed stalker? Probably not. On a side note: freeskier Kristi Leskinen ended up at number 5 on the same list from the same issue of FHM.
Titanic director James Cameron has a new film coming out that could be one of the biggest flops ever. It’s called Avatar and when he talks about his sci-fi hybrid he gets all surfy.
There’s an analogy I like to use: The surfer doesn’t make the wave, the surfer surfs the wave, and he has to know when the wave’s coming — and a good surfer senses the wave from far out and knows that it’s that wave, not this wave. You let other forces, other filmmakers, market forces, generate the wave of energy — in this case, I’m talking about the energy in CG development.
While his contemporaries continued to channel the sport’s core sponsors into career success, White became an overnight industry, trading niche overachievement for mainstream sports superstardom, his image used to launch clothing lines for US superstore Target, his face fronting campaigns for American Express and Hewlett Packard and his signature splattered across the covers of posters, books, DVDs, video games.
When we read stories like this we think back to the time when Shaun was just a tiny kid in a helmet standing quietly by as his mother begged event organizers to let him forerun the US Open halfpipe even though he wasn’t technically old enough.
British actor Charlie Bewley who plays the vampire Demetri in the latest installment of the Mormporn series Twilight apparently spent a couple years hanging out in Whistler snowboarding according to an interview on Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch blog.
I really did enjoy snowboarding. I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration. I think in some respects, spending time in the mountains was something that prompted me to stay away from England and take up a path less trodden.
Obviously inside by Tony “Ride” Hawk, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert recently went skateboarding with Congress woman Jackie Speier, Representatives Jim McGovern and Patrick Kennedy. He even nearly tried dropping in on the staircase.
He rolls quite well it should be no surprise: Colbert pushes mongo. Skateboarding starts at 5:20 into the clip.
Some reality TV guy (Jon Gosselin?) went surfing this weekend in Hawaii, according to US Magazine. We’re thinking this one photo will do more to clear the lineups than any threat of killer Great Whites . . . on the other hand he looks like great chum.
