Apparently, today is officially snow slamming stars day as the former Mrs. Steve Berra, Juliette Lewis attempts (unsuccessfully it appears) to snowboard in Italy while on tour with the Rock The Spot snowboarding tour.
[Link: Daily Mail]
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We’ve never heard of her before, but apparently Sophia Bush, star of a show called One Tree Hill fell down and went boom during a snowboard trip to Whistler earlier in the month. Though she was warned by her instructor not to let her stuntman friends take her down anything too serious, she didn’t listen.
“I went up to Whistler with a couple of guys from work – one of our stunt guys, Paul Johannson, and James Lafferty. And (reality TV star) Stephen Colletti was supposed to come with us, but he’d really hurt his shoulder the week before. So he’s going, ‘Be careful, it’s really icy because it’s so cold. Don’t fall.’ “I’m like, ‘I’m not going to hurt myself!’ Cut to me laying in this pile on the mountain and I landed just on my knee.
Hopefully, someone was there to kiss it and make it better.
[Link: PR-Inside]
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Kevin Connolly was born with no legs. He is three-feet one-inch tall and is a film student at Montana State University. He has a new art show called The Rolling Exhibition featuring photographs he’s taken of people staring down at him as he rolled around on his skateboard.
Connolly feels he’s just as able-bodied as anyone. But he never quite adjusted to people’s stares. . . On a European trip last year he got tired of it. In what he admits to being a passive-aggressive response, Connolly looked the other way, held his camera at hip-level, and snapped a starer’s photo. . . . “I wanted to stare back at that guy, to let him know that, ‘Yeah, I catch you looking,'” he says. “And the way I did that was with my camera.” . . . Afterward when Connolly looked at the photo, blurred from both the movement of the camera and the movement of the man, he was surprised to find he liked what he saw. And the seed was planted for a major creative project.
This Christian Science Monitor story is probably the best one we’ve seen on Kevin and his art project. Check it out.
[Link: Christian Science Monitor and The Rolling Exhitibition]
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Snowboarders Michael George and Kyle Kerschen went missing during a blinding snow storm at Wolf Creek, Colorado on January 4, 2008. Rescue workers searched for them for 10 days finally calling the search off during the week on January 14. The families of both snowboarders held a fundraiser on Sunday January 20, 2008 to raise money to pay for a continued private search.
The families are directing people who want to help to go to any First Community Bank in Albuquerque to donate to a fund in the names of George and Kerschen.
[Link: KOAT.com]
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According to a report issued by the UK’s Debenhams Travel Insurance snowboarders are nearly twice and likely to be injured as skiers.
Snowboarding is a relatively new sport – but now we are seeing just how hazardous it could be, with 34 per cent of snowboarders – compared to 17 per cent of skiers – likely to sustain an injury from their sport,” said Diane Jackson, spokesperson for Debenhams Travel Insurance, which has carried out the research.
She also was sure to remind everyone how important travel insurance is. Hmmm, wonder how “official” this “research” was?
[Link: Travelbite.co.uk]
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Companies who want to extend their eco-cred are hunting far and wide for people who can help them look green even when they aren’t. Enter Eric Ritz. His company Global Inheritance has helped Fuel TV with their Swerve Festival and more impressively, helped the X Games squeeze onto the eco-marketing bandwagon. ESPN’s Chris Stiepock calls him a “solution-based realist.”
In fact, what Ritz says sets him apart is that he and his “Generation Y audience don’t see big business as the enemy.” Convenient, huh? And so commercial.
[Link: LA Times]
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James McLean, a 33-year-old podiatrist from Leawood, Kansas, apparently died on his snowboard after he “went airborne” then landed on the top of his head while riding in the Park Lake Terrain park on January 20, 2008 at Breckenridge, Colorado.
Breckenridge Ski Patrol got the call around 2 p.m. and took McLean to the Breckenridge Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The coroner said he died from a fractured neck. McLean was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, police spokesman Nick DeFord said.
[Link: The Denver Channel]
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The Sugarloaf trees claim a life on Saturday, January 19, 2008:
A 19-year-old Colby College freshman was killed Saturday morning in a snowboarding accident at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley. . . . Andrew M. Peff of Philadelphia was snowboarding with friends on the expert-level Haulback Trail around 11 a.m. when he went off the trail and into the woods. He died on the mountain, a Sugarloaf security and police supervisor said.
[Link: Sun Journal]
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Kiss your action sports magazines good-bye again as Walmart decides to cut 1,000 magazines from the racks in it’s discount, mega-lo-mart stores, according to a story in the New York Post.
Most of the magazines are small, and more than a few of the victims are titles that have long since stopped publishing . . . However, virtually no major publisher was spared. . . . Wal-Mart, which released its official purge list on Jan. 15, is believed to be responsible for generating more than 20 percent of all retail magazine sales in the US. . . . Several titles owned by Swedish publishing giant Bonnier, which less than a year ago paid $220 million for 16 Time Inc. titles, are being left behind. Among them: Parenting, Ski, Skiing, Yachting and Salt Water Sportsman.
Put that in your action sports media plan and smoke it.
[Link: New York Post]
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