The economic situation in our country has not only hit the retailers and brand name companies in our industry, it has also taken its toll on the material we read. Source Interlink, the company that publishes Skateboarder, Snowboarder, Surfing, Surfer and five other action sports magazines and web sites, said today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The special interest media company, in total, publishes a total of 75 magazines and 90 web sites, described the bankruptcy as a prepackaged filing. According to the company’s website: “A “pre-pack†is… Details
This weekend is the Cabo’s Pizza 26th Annual WaveMasters Pro/Am Surf Contest, starting at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Jacksonville Beach Pier.
Registration is taking place at Sunrise Surf Shop for North Florida’s largest annual surf event.
Divisions include shortboard and longboard for all ages, as well as a Men’s and Women’s Pro Division.
The title sponsor, Cabo’s Pizza, will host a pizza-eating contest at noon on Saturday. Whoever can eat one of their huge slices the fastest will win a $100 gift certificate.
The WaveMasters contest has evolved into one of the biggest and most …Â Details
I read on the BBC Sport website today that, among others, Renault boss Flavio Briatore, has stated that Jenson Button’s success this year is down to nothing more than the speed of his Brawn. Â
The outspoken Italian said that “Button is an indifferent driver unworthy of comparison to his double world champion Fernando Alonso.â€Â Â
Until now I have agreed largely with Briatore’s often comical outbursts, but I feel as a Brawn fanatic a huge Jenson fan that the Italian needs to be answered! I will answer Mr Briatore by briefly analysing Jen’s F1 career and considering his performance relative to the car he was in and his team mate… Details
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One of the crews favoured to take victory in the Bathurst RSL Club Rally of Bathurst on May 16 and 17, is a former winner of the event, Gareth Morgan-Thomas of Bathurst and his Sydney co-driver, Matt Ruggles.
The two day event that will start and finish in Bathurst, is the second round of the 2009 Pipe King Southern Cross Rally Series run by the Australian Motor sport Action Group (AMSAG), with Dave Aitchison as rally director.The event will cover 230 kilometres of competitive roads within the Sunny Corner State Forest, east of Bathurst.
Morgan-Thomas won the Bathurst RSL Rally of Bathurst in 2004 driving a 5 litre V8 Holden Commodore, and finished a close second in that year’s Southern Cross Rally Series, as he had done the previous season, 2003.
“You could say we lost that 2004 championship by only three seconds, because that was what we were beaten by, in the final round at Port Macquarie. We were beaten by a lack of tyres,†Morgan-Thomas said.
He sold his Commodore a short time after the 2004 series, and last year purchased a 1996 Subaru WRX STi that had won the 2004 Victorian Championship.
“It is unbelievable the difference between the Commodore and the WRX. The WRX is a maintenance intensive car, and you must spend many hours working on it between events, whereas the Commodore would seldom need a spanner on it.  Details