Check out the latest trailer for “Sole” from the good folks at Element Skateboards — coming out Fall 2009 and featuring Vallely, Chad Tim Tim, Levi Brown and Darrell Stanton. Some sick stuff
The United States and Formula One are words rarely spoken in the same breath. But one place where they have long tended to come together is at the Monaco Grand Prix, the crown jewel of the season, which will be run Sunday in this principality on the Mediterranean.
Perhaps because of Grace Kelly, the American actress who married Prince Rainier III to form one of the 20th century’s most glamorous couples, or because of John Frankenheimer’s 1966 film, “Grand Prix,†which opened in Monte Carlo, or because of the movie stars who drop in from the nearby Cannes Film Festival, there has always been an American link to the race… Details
Racing at more than 200 mph is tough enough. No one wants to find themselves wheel-to-wheel with someone who’s under the influence of drugs.
“If we’re out there driving at those speeds,” said Ryan Hunter-Reay, who will start from the final row in Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, “it’s good to know everyone has a clear head.”
The Indy Racing League conducts random drug testing under a policy that was beefed up before the 2008 season. But the drug-testing debate was stirred up again this month when NASCAR racer Jeremy Mayfield was suspended over a positive random test that remains clouded in secrecy. Mayfield was the first driver to be …Â Details
 In the beginning of action sports, there were surfboards.
When 4th-century Tahitians and other Polynesian groups made their way to the Hawaiian islands, they brought a sport they called paipo, the riding of waves on boards while lying on their stomachs.
Not long after, the now-Hawaiian riders began standing on the boards, and what we know as surfing was born.
Surfing evolved from a religious and royal pastime in Hawaii and made its way to California in the 1920s and boomed after World War II when soldiers and sailors who had spent time in Hawaii took up the sport…. Details
