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Snowboarding May Have Reached Its Peak
Snowboarding is no longer new, no longer extreme, and—now that your mom knows how to ride—no longer quite as cool. No wonder snowboard sales and snowboarder...
Milestones
DIED Camilla Williams, 92, the first black woman to perform a lead role with a major U.S. opera troupe; the soprano also sang at the 1963 Washington civil rights...
Is Snowboarding Getting Spoiled by Big Money?
A tribe of mavericks descended on Washington this week. No, they weren't Sarah Palin groupies, or Silicon Valley executives, or angry big-city mayors. They were...
Shaun White vs. Lindsey Vonn: Who's Better?
Call it the Tiger Woods–Roger Federer debate, Winter Olympics–style. On Wednesday, the two most heavily hyped Americans in the Vancouver Olympic Games, skier...
Snowboarding: It's Halfpiping Hot
The halfpipe competition, with its music and its crowd interaction, could become the beach volleyball of the Winter Olympics. It's a TV-friendly contest, and the...
Olympic Diary: How the Americans Struck Snowboarding Gold
Forget "Faster, Higher, Stronger" — we're talking "Younger, Hipper, Louder." The women's halfpipe finals, held in Park City under crystalline skies and...
Snowboard: Olympics: Dazed And Confused
If you want Vivaldi or Wagner or Lloyd Webber, go figure skating. Snowboarding's sound tracks are different. Last week at the Olympic snowboard park, as riders...
Nagano 1998: Snowboarding: Rebel Revels
Under dark, wet snowfall deep in Washington State's North Cascades, Terje Haakonsen charges his snowboard across the finish line to victory at the Mount Baker...
Nagano 1998: The Master Blasts The Board
Terje Haakonsen, 23, is the master blaster of half-pipe snowboarding. But is he an Olympian? Snowboarding, the cultural twin of skateboarding, is growing up fast...
WATCH: Skiers Take to the Steps of Montmartre in Paris
In the shadow of Sacré-Coeur Basilica, a group of enterprising skiers take to the steps of Paris' famous hill, Montmartre
Will Lindsey Vonn Make It Back For The Sochi Olympics?
After a crash in Austria, America's most decorated skier needs reconstructive surgery. Why she's a good bet to make it back for Sochi
Get Well Sooner—And Cheaper: Two Medical Insiders Pull Back The Curtain on the Doctor-Patient Relationship
The authors of a new book exposing major flaws in the way most doctors diagnose offer advice to improve your health—physical and financial.
Friends With Benefits: Soft Porn, Meet Snarky Charm
Romantic comedies tend to be lousy. This is a given that director Will Gluck's Friends With Benefits uses to its advantage. It revels in poking fun at the...
Lysacek's Gold: Are Olympic Skaters Playing It Too Safe?
What would the Flying Tomato do? If Shaun White could trade in his baggies for spandex and his board for a pair of quarter-inch blades (and maybe cut his hair)...
The Vancouver Olympics Come Full Circle
The Vancouver Olympics could not have started on a more somber note. On Feb. 12, a fateful Friday that broke the hearts of those who strongly believe in, or...
Vancouver's Olympic Village: Let the Bailout Games Begin
On the eve of the Winter Olympics' opening ceremonies, the waterfront condo complex in Vancouver that is housing more than 2,700 Olympic athletes and team...
Are the Winter Games Too Dangerous?
Besides the techno music thumping throughout the Olympic snowboard-cross venue and the mindless banter of the public-address announcers ("Why do the Swiss fans...
Green to the Extreme.
The environment is getting gnarly. Surfing, snowboarding and other adventure sports that take place outdoors are, by their nature, intimately affected by climate...
10 Best Sports Moments
1. VINCE'S VICTORY TEXAS QUARTERBACK VINCE Young played the perfect game on the biggest stage, romping over U.S.C. in the Rose Bowl to lead the Longhorns to...
