Gotcha founder Michael Tomson had a “gold, ruby and diamond encrusted ring valued at approximately $25,000” stolen from his Laguna Beach, California home last weekend, according to a story in the Orange County Register.
Sgt. Jason Kravetz of the Laguna Beach Police Department was able to confirm that a woman listing the surfer’s Laguna Beach residence had filed a complaint at the department’s front desk Monday, but that an official police report has yet to be drafted. . . “I can tell you that a ring was taken in the theft, and it is valued at $25,000,” Kravetz said. “It’s unknown if it’s a wedding ring.” . . The police logs indicated that the ring contained 2.28 karats in diamonds and .3 karats in rubies.
This is old news to anyone who follows Tony Hawk on Twitter, but last night he casually tweeted that a sports museum that he had loaned some memorabilia to had just gone bankrupt and the court wanted him to pay $1,500 to get his stuff back. Apparently, his stuff was being treated as an asset.
Today, CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell blogged about the tweet today and added a little detail:
We’re not 100 percent sure, but we think Hawk is talking about the Sports Museum of America, a national sports museum that was based near Wall Street and was actually open for seven months before shutting down in February. . .The museum’s parent company filed for bankruptcy the following month with $56 million in assets and $177 million in debt. The museum was displaying Hawk’s second-place trophy from a 1979 youth skateboarding competition.
Hopefully, Tony will get his trophy back. He won it once already and he shouldn’t have to win it again.
Little reminder: visiting The Grove in Anaheim, California tonight for the Billabong XXL awards is not required. It’s all online live starting at 7 PM PST tonight. And this way no sloppy OC girls are going to spill their drinks on you.
We’re not sure if it was just our fascination with Kelly Slater and the sadly absent Andy Irons or if the new ASP format just sucks. Either way, the Rip Curl Pro at Bells was one of the most dreadfully boring surf contests we’ve seen in a while. It seemed like the waiting period went on forever, and the guys were never, ever surfing. If it hadn’t been for Twitter we would have missed the entire contest.
We don’t mean to take anything away from winner Joel Parkinson, or from wildcard giant slayers Adam Robertson and Owen Wright. They were all killing it in some great waves. It’s just hard to stay interested in anything for two whole weeks. And we don’t think we’re alone.
Follow the jump for the ASP press release that is already posted on every surf site in the world. [click to continue…]
Ah, not so sure about his recent surfboard shapes, but when it comes to body lotion we trust Kelly Slater, especially his new Limited Edition Superbly Restorative Body Lotion created in collaboration with Kiehl’s. Here are just some of the details:
100% of proceeds up to $100,000 will support Waterkeeper Alliance, Helps improve skin’s resilience and texture, Helps enrich skin’s moisture barrier and most importantly it leaves skin soft with a healthy-looking sheen, and Formulated with a naturally-derived preservative system.
The label on the bottle features Kelly doing a big ol’ bottom turn. Wonder if Kalani has been giving Kelly some post heat-loss rub-downs with this stuff? The lotion costs $55 for 16 ounces and is all for a good cause.
Entrepreneur magazine checks in with the raddest businessmen on the planet: Ryan Sheckler, bmxer Dave Mirra, and Paul Rodriguez to see how things are hanging. From Sheckler’s “Ferrari F430 parked outside,” to Mirra’s “multimillion-dollar business” to P.Rod’s “shoe boutique” the magazine makes it look like getting paid isn’t so bad afterall.
“I’m a skateboarder,” Sheckler says. “I’ll always be just a skateboarder. But I have these awesome opportunities that I’ll never let go by. It started with skateboarding. It’ll end with skateboarding. The things I do in between are my choice. The haters can say what they want, and the people who are my friends can realize what I’m doing and realize the empire I’m building for myself, and tag along and have some fun.”
Russel Crowe says that work on the Bra Boys film that may be his feature directorial debut is progressing nicely, according to Sky News.
“We are on our third different take on the story, probably on our second draft of our third take,” he said.
“We approached it in one way and it worked and encapsulated it nicely but it left too many things on the table so we’ve tried it a second way and had the same result. . . . We’re now in a place where we’re trying it a third way and it’s a little more satisfying in terms of the punch of the overall film.”
The film is not based on the documentary, but on the best-selling book My Brothers Keeper, by investigative reporters Charles Miranda and Angelea Kamper and follows the story of “standover man” Anthony Hines, his meeting with infamous Sydney surfing gang ‘the Bra Boys’, and his killing. According to Russel, the film will not start Mark Wahlberg and instead will feature Australian actors.
“This is a great Australian story and it belongs to the Australian film industry and it’s all well and good to finance it from overseas because film is an international medium but we’ve got great actors in our country.”
Tony Hawk joined Hilary Duff, Jessica Biel, and Slash to remind people that getting involved and sharing your time is a good thing. Here’s a little of what Tony says:
I believe everyone can change the world you don’t have to be rich and famous, you can start in your own community: start locally. Help people that are in need. Help causes that interest you. . . .A lot of people want to help or say that there are these problems, but you have to physically go there and do it and that’s what makes a difference.
Slash obviously had a hard time being on camera without his guitar, but Tony’s comments were right on.
Gotcha founder Michael Tomson had a “gold, ruby and diamond encrusted ring valued at approximately $25,000” stolen from his Laguna Beach, California home last weekend, according to a story in the Orange County Register.
