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Allisports Calls The Vice Squad

by The Editors on December 8, 2008

SuckdogIn what seems like a match made in hell, that bastion of New York street culture cred Vice has signed up to run all online editorial for the recently relaunched NBC/MTV joint Alliance of Action Sports, according to a press release sent out this morning.

Vice, the group behind VBS.tv, and critically acclaimed shows including Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Epicly Later’d, and School of Surf, has been brought on to produce and manage all editorial content and video. Allisports.com already has a deep catalog of action sports video content including the new VBS.tv program “Powder & Rails,” MTV2’s “The Contenders” featuring Paul Rodriguez, Ryan Sheckler, Jamie Bestwick, and Chaz Ortiz, along with an extensive library of Dew Tour footage.

Does Vice really know what they’re getting into? They’ll find out soon enough. In the meantime, Alli President Wade Martin can look forward to this kind of coverage of action sports, which we’re pretty sure the Burton design crew will absolutely love.
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Danny Kass’ New Pizza Roll

by The Editors on December 4, 2008

In this gnarly clip for Totinos Pizza Rolls Danny Kass shows just what some action pros will do to get paid (or maybe just a year’s supply of munchies). The dude can ride. No joke. The clip has the title advertising spot on the homepage of YouTube.com today.

[Link: Pizza Roll Into The X Games]

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The Slap Bye Bye Print Party

by The Editors on December 4, 2008

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Help send Slap Skateboard Magazine off in its digital journey on Saturday night (December 6, 2008) at On Six Gallery in San Francisco. NorCal party of the season with John Cardiel mixing up some soundwaves.

[Link: SF Weekly]

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Eternal Slater And The Spotless Mind Body Surf

by The Editors on December 3, 2008

Ten minutes inside the mind of Kelly Slater or the best surf trunk commercial ever.

[Link: The Mountain And Wave]

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Me, Myself, And That Really Old Pro Snowboarder

by The Editors on December 3, 2008

We love Todd Richards and are we’re really glad he’s out humorously self-promoting himself in a new film. But what we’re most looking forward to is the part about how he could have won the first gold medal in the Olympic Halfpipe but he choked. Is that in there somewhere?

[Link: Snowbroader.eu]

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A Flaming Bag Of Crap Rises From The Ashes

by The Editors on December 3, 2008

SackSeems like only yesterday we were asking someone whatever happened to that site that we’ve been accused of completely and utterly ripping off and reapportioning? And what do you know? Sacklunch.com is back online, although currently without its world famous forum.

. . . that last thing we remember it was sometime near the end of February 2007. Our corporate masters decided to play some good ol’ fashion business hardball and ended up giving us a “time-out,” and sending us straight to our room with no dinner.

Apparently, their “time-out” is over and all that content is back online. . . even the Ben Marcus’s manic travel writing.

Welcome back. We missed you and all but we’re not sure there’s room for both of us.

[Link: Sacklunch.com via YoBeat]

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Uber Alli’s Exploitive User Content Agreement

by The Editors on December 2, 2008

AlliWant NBC to own you? Post to the new Alli user generated content area and you can be NBC’s bitch for eternity. Here is a little sample from the User Content Submission Agreement on the Alli site.

By submitting User Content, in addition to the rights, licenses and privileges referred to above, you are also granting ALLI, and the Affiliates, the unqualified, unrestricted, unconditional, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual and royalty free right, license, authorization and permission to use and refer to your name, logo, marks, image, characteristic or other distinctive identification in presentations, marketing materials, customer lists and financial reports, to do, perform, take advantage of and exploit any and all of the rights set forth herein in connection with the marketing, advertising and promotion of the Platforms, and any products, goods, features, functions, capabilities and/or services associated with ALLI, and the Affiliates and to use and otherwise exploit any ideas, concepts, content, material, expression or form of expression, in whole or in part, contained in your User Content, for any purpose whatsoever, without any credit, compensation or accounting to you, in products or services developed by ALLI, and the Affiliates, without limitation or restriction whatsoever.

Leave it to a TV network to “exploit” users’ content “without any credit, compensation or accounting.”

[Link: Alli – Alliance of Action Sports]

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NBC Opens Bigger Umbrella With Alli

by The Editors on December 1, 2008

AlliIn a race to crush the action sports media competition, NBC is loading up. First, NBC’s AST Tour brought in MTV. Now, an entirely new alliance has been created aggregating the Action Sports Tour properties (AST) with Maloof Money Cup, AMA Motocross Championship and King of Wake series. It’s called Alli: The Alliance of Action Sports.

Alli’s mission is to facilitate the momentous growth of action sports by showcasing both the competition and lifestyle aspect of these sports. We believe these are the sports of a new generation and Alli will bring together the best properties, athletes, and brands globally for the fans of action sports,” says Wade Martin, President of Alli, the Alliance of Action Sports.

Alli has an entirely new, updated website to go with new events. Seems like a nice preemptory strike by NBC against the much rumored (though obviously delayed) relaunch of action sports on ESPN. Now all NBC needs is a magazine group to go with it.

Follow the jump for the whole press release or check out this story on Sports Business Journal.
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Romancing The Bro

by The Editors on November 30, 2008

450Flirting01-JanetyRomance novelist Jane Porter was recently divorced, 40, and on her own in Hawaii when she met Oahu surf school owner Ty Gurney. That meeting became the start for a novel (Flirting With Forty), a made-for-TV movie (staring Heather Locklear), and a child who is due in May.

“There was this surfer guy walking by — oh, my God!” Porter recalled. “He was tattooed, with a bulldog just above his board shorts. He was very young. He was incredibly good-looking. He was exactly the kind of person I am not attracted to. I was a little afraid of him.” . . . Porter had her novel’s final plot element — the alluring surfer and the dilemma he would present: “Should a woman stay on the road previously traveled? Or be brave enough to follow a road not traveled?”

Apparently, that whole Waikiki beach boy thing still can pay off for everyone involved.

[Link: Seattle Post Intelligencer]

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Wasserman Whacks Away At Sportnet

by The Editors on November 24, 2008

Many in the action sport media business have been asking what Wasserman Media Group was doing spending so much money on their Sportnet property. It appears someone inside the company asked the same question and answered by cutting 41 percent of the staff.

Twenty-eight of the group’s 68 employees were laid off late Friday, including Gabe Huerta, VP-product development, and a number of others from product development and support.

An email to Luke McDonough, the former president of Studio 411 was returned with the following message: As of November 21st 2008, Luke McDonough is no longer an employee at Wasserman Media Group/Sportnet.” And the recently launched Snowboarder.com has cut recently hired editor James Sullivan and is reportedly being run by a “project manager” at the company.

Some would say it was only a matter of time.

[Link: Paid Content]

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