A SURFING competition that “outed” South Australia’s West Coast as a world-class big-wave destination has caused a war among locals.
The Fantastic Noodles Intense Wave Invitational ’09 near Streaky Bay – held late last month – was preceded by weeks of threats and rumours in a community that has spent years trying to prevent its coastline from becoming crowded.
Police were called in after one local organiser woke to find his letterbox had been blown up.
Jeff Schmucker, whose son Josiah, 17, came second in the competition, said it was a “sizeable explosion” that could have caused serious injury to the culprit…Â Details
Jeff Simon wasn’t like most teenagers when he was 14 years old. A serious athlete, he lived for speed. Took risks. Lived on the edge.
And on a day just two weeks shy of the start of high school, as he was waiting anxiously for his parents outside a speedskating clinic in Los Angeles, Simon prepared to broach with them a topic foreign to most teenagers: He would ask if he could leave home to train professionally.
That was six years ago. Now…Â Details
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 Danica Patrick will “all but certainly” be in NASCAR in 2010, but won’t give up Indy car racing and will limit next year’s activity to the Nationwide Series and Trucks, according to a source very close to the situation.
Tony Stewart is the “star candidate” to be her partner and mentor in NASCAR, the source said, adding that Patrick’s recent visits to Stewart-Haas Racing were much more than social — that she and Stewart were discussing a deal, and are close to one…Â Details