Eight of the top collegiate wakeboard teams from around the nation made their way out to beautiful Lake Las Vegas for the Collegiate Wakeboard Championships. Defending champs Chico State, along with other top teams from last year, Arizona State and South Florida, made their way back to try to make the title theirs. Other teams that made their way out were Collegiate Team of the year Florida State, along with University of Georgia, Sacramento State, Rollins College and Baylor. All of the teams came out with one main goal, to be named National Champions.
All of the teams arrived at Lake Las Vegas on Wednesday with riding starting on Thursday. Thursday was … More
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The Big Picture
Although touted as “America’s Greatest Race,” the Tour of California comes into 2013 with an inferiority complex. Much of the race drama of last year’s race was sucked out by the combination of the dominating performance of Peter Sagan, who won five of the eight stages (and nearly a sixth) and the fact that the race was decided in just a few minutes on the final pitches of Mt. Baldy on Stage 7 – hardly the nail-biting day-by-day battle that promoters and fans had looked for. The weather was grand, the crowds all along the route huge, but the racing itself was sometimes underwhelming.
For fans in California, there is no competition for this race – it’s the biggest and longest and this year the course stretches from San Diego to Santa Rosa. There are many great places to … More
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Mothers usually worry so much that they have trouble even watching their sons race cars.
Charlotte Lucas turned the table on her son, Morgan Lucas, when she decided to take up drag racing after seeing her son take high-speed shots down the track.
“That very first time I saw her race, I knew she had been in very good hands,” NHRA Top Fuel driver Morgan Lucas said … More
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