Kevin Pearce, Shaun White and Gretchen Bleiler are part of the Oakley family and were nominated for honors at this year’s ESPY Awards, which is hosted by Justin Timberlake and will be aired July 20th on ESPN.
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Shaun White Snowboarding is being developed from the ground up for the Wii system, taking full advantage of the Wii Balance Board accessory and featuring its own unique storyline and adventure with Shaun White.
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According to the people at Laureus in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Flying Tomato out-action-sportsed everyone this year, winning the Action Sports Person Of The Year award. White joins the ranks of anti-doping campaigner Dick Pound, and Ukranian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka.
For people outside the action-sports bubble, Laureus did alright. One of the two photos on the site are actually of White, and they definitely referred to his Xgames performance as “video game moves.” No mention of the Birdhouse video, though. I’m kinda pissed about that.
From White’s profile: “In the vert event, White exhibited video-game moves: Backside 540 to heelflip body varial to McTwist to air to fakie to 720 to frontside 540 stalefish to frontside 540 to nose grind to lipslide to blunt to fakie to fakie air to frontside 540 to backside 540 to frontside gay twist. Suddenly, a summer X Gold was his.”
Jesus, that’s one hell of a trick. Up-up-down-down-circle-circle-square, indeed.
Glory, fame and fortune were on the line today at the US Open Snowboarding Championships, where the world’s top riders battled for five different prestigious titles, two Volvo C30 R-Designs and cash awards worth a total of $471,500.
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Shaun White (USA) won his third US Open slopestyle competition and Kjersti Buaas (NOR) took her first US Open title today, Friday, March 21, in the 2008 US Open slopestyle competition under bright bluebird skies at Stratton Mountain Resort, Vermont.
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It’s always impressive when people log a lot of miles to make the pilgrimage to Transworld Business headquarters. Laura Anderson, who is in charge of lifestyle marketing for Target, traveled all the way from Minneapolis to give us an update:
Yep, they’ve still got Shaun White … and Nate Adams, for all you FMX fans. And it sounds like the Target house at X Games will be even bigger this year, so maybe you’ll be able to get into one of those parties that everyone is always talking about.
Laura also gave us some incentive to shop at Target, so I sought out a few patriotic items in order to dull the guilt of working on Veteran’s Day. We’ll be sure to at least decorate the office if we work through Fourth of July.
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