Ten-year-old Anthony Simmons has spent most of his time over the last three weeks practicing moves like Disaster and Spine Transfer on the quarter pipes, banks and pockets of the Tigard skate park.
The long-haired fourth grader is preparing for Skateboard Challenge, scheduled for Sunday, March 29 at the Jim Griffith Memorial Skate Park in Tigard.
“I think I’ll get the trophy,†Anthony said, holding the 8-inch deck he’d just purchased for the competition…. Details
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A full on Skate-A-Thon is going down this Sunday in San Francisco for all of you up in that area. I would be the first one there and ready to skate to my hearts content, if only I was nearby. A chance to skate, pretty much all day with a bunch of other skateboarding brothers is a beautiful thing.
It starts bright and early at 8:00am and ends at 11:00 am. That’s relatively short, I guess, but you know you’re still going to skate the rest of the day with other skateboarders you meet there. Trade spot locations, talk skateboarding, play games of S.K.A.T.E. and just overall have a great time.
All that is required to enter the skate-a-thon is for you to be …Â Details
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NASCAR is no different than the corporate world. Prime parking is a sure sign of success.
Tony Stewart has won two races on NASCAR’s shortest, trickiest oval, but when the first-year team owner pulled into Martinsville Speedway on Friday, the place where he saw his team’s hauler parked meant more to him than it probably ever had.
It was, he said, “a proud moment,†and one earned on the track by his seventh-place position in the points standings with a new team that needed to start with some success…. Details
The iconic wings fixed to the back of Formula One cars made them look as sexy and fast as fighter jets. It turns out they were also making the races a bit of a snooze.
The wings were designed to catch the wind and thereby increase downforce on the tires. Downforce helps the tires grip the pavement, which allows the cars to take tight corners without skidding out. But the wings also had a serious side effect: They created a wake of air so turbulent that any car following behind lost up to 33% of its downforce. As a result, cars in F1 had to slow down before sharp turns to stay out of the turbulence created by the car in front — which made it very hard for F1 drivers to pass each other. Nascar, by comparison, has an average of 3,000 changes of position every race.
In 2005, a survey conducted by F1’s governing body found that 94% of fans wanted …Â Details