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The Burton Corp’s artsy, woodsy skateboard company Habitat is celebrating its 10th year in business by launching a line of skate footwear that is reportedly “designed by skateboarders for skateboarding.”
Consisting of six models, the line also infuses Habitat’s signature design ...
Surf
Burton
Skate 2
The Wall
The Skateboard Mag
Wayne Lee Cummings, 31, the former owner of Showcase Skate Park in Rogers, Minnesota was sentenced to 117 months in prison for “soliciting kids for sex,” according to a story in the StarTribune.
Cummings. . . was found guilty on three felony counts of soliciting a child to engage in ...
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The Skateboard Mag
Mike Vallely was arrested and cited for “fighting in public” while at a Ducks hockey game at the Honda Center on Thursday night, and then today The Ducks officially severed promotional ties with the former pro skater, according to a story in the OC Register.
The incident occurred ...
Surf
Three's
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Yes, Olympic gold medalist Hannah Teter now has her
own Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream flavor and it’s call Blonde Ambition Maple Blondie. The first flavor created for an athlete, Maple Blondie is a rich and creamy ...
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We All Scream For Hannah Teter
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Up anything is a good thing, right? While not even up 1 percent, it was good to see Zumiez up something for Q3. Here are some details from CNNMoney.com.
Total net sales for the third quarter (13 weeks) ended October 31, 2009 increased 0.8% to $113.2 million from $112.2 million reported in the ...
Skate
Zumiez
The Wall
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We’re not even going to guess where this
thing came from, but The Snowtunnel is described as
follows: The Snowtunnel is a patented design that allows snowboarders/skiers the opportunity to ski all year round. Unlike other artificial ...
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Sucked Into The Snowtunnel
It’s not that we have low expectations from Neff, because that’s not it. We just always thought of them as a beanie and t-shirt company, yet, they continue to come up with stuff that seriously looks cool. Like these knitted headphones. We not going to wear them, but there is no doubt ...
Surf
Neff
The Wall
GWAR lead singer Oderus Urungus (a.k.a. Dave Brockie) is apparently a hardcore shred who, like all of us, wanted a pro model. It appears that Sined Snowboards has given him one according to a post on the oderus.com website:
That’s right, own a piece of rock and roll history with the very ...
Surf
Art Brewer
A press release sent out yesterday titled 86 Companies Will Make Their Debut At The Snow Show by SIA talks about how many new companies are are involved in the Denver show and SIA President David Ingemie is ecstatic.
“New companies take risks and provide the retailers with fresh ideas and ...
Surf
SIA
The Wall
Alessandro Barreto, 36, an inexperienced surfer, from Richmond Hill, New York died last Thursday (Thursday, November 12, 2009) after being held under while attempting to surf at Rockaway Beach, according to a story on YourNabe.com.
“He was under water about four or five minutes,” said Rockaway ...
Surf
Rockaway
What kind of weird voodoo economics are going on at The Buckle? While most other mall stores’ sales are chomping down on gobs of sun-blanched feces, The Buckle is reporting that their Q3 profits rose 15 percent “on higher online sales and sales at stores open more than a year, ...
Surf
The Wall
Zumiez
Affliction
You Will Soon’s Dan Watson lays down some of the realities behind Berrics United and does it well in a post titled Unified Theory. . . Of Bullshit.
But what are the qualifications for a shop to be saved by the Unified Berrics? Is it the amount of work they’ve put into grassroots ...
Skate
The Berrics
Will Lavigne
Steve Berra
The Wall
Obviously inside by Tony “Ride” Hawk, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert recently went skateboarding with Congress woman Jackie Speier, Representatives Jim McGovern and Patrick Kennedy. He even nearly tried dropping in on the staircase.
He rolls quite well it should be no ...
Other
Ride
A 27-year-old surfer in New South Wales, Australia had finished surfing at The Farm, and was up in the car park when he was bitten on the right leg by a red-bellied black snake, according to a story in the Illawarra Mercury.
A witness said the man’s surfboard was on the ground and, when he ...
Other
Admittedly, we don’t make it over to GrindTV all that often. Okay, never. So it was with surprise and not a little shock that we discovered Erica Hosseini getting ignited by BallPark Franks and talking action sports. That girl has some nice . . . teeth.
[Link: GrindTV]
Surf
Erica Hosseini
OC retailers rejoice. There’s a Sanuk company store coming just in time for the holidays. Then it will go away.
Sanuk sandals has reportedly opened a temporary shop in the OC’s Downtown Disney according to a story in the OC Register.
Sanuk, an Irvine-based footwear company, is ...
Surf
Sanuk
Pops
The Wall
This skateboarding dog on Tony Hawk: Ride smells just a little too “viral”? A couple kids on the couch cranking out a Youtube.com video with four angles, 14 cuts, and posted from an account that was opened today. So it’s an ad and yet, we still posted it because we’re ...
Skate
Tony Hawk
Ride
Steve Berra’s tear-jerkingly earnest discussion of the Berrics Unified skateboard shop seal of approval program. Which is not to say we disagree with anything Steve has to say. As one PR executive mentioned to us: “Passion is a great weapon.” If that’s true, this little ...
