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...These snowboard and freestyle events, added over the last several Olympics are part of a movement called freeskiing that is rapidly changing the sport in the U.S. And they are right where America's skateboard-surfboard-snowboard generation lives. In the mens? moguls, resident renegade Jonny Moseley had a sometimes raucous crowd salivating in anticipation of his signature "Dinner Roll" jump, and he did not disappoint. Moseley stole the show in each of his two runs - but left without a medal. Ah, the irony. The outrageous Moseley is too rad for freestyle. His Dinner Roll is a 720 degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At These Games, X Marks the Sports | 2/20/2002 | See Source »

...Doerr ambled over and pushed him in the chest. When the Segway kept him from losing his balance, Grove emitted a distinctly un-Grove-like giggle. "The machine is gorgeous," he said later. "I'm no good at balancing; it would take me a hundred years to learn to snowboard. This took me less than five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reinventing the Wheel | 12/2/2001 | See Source »

Four months ago, the baggy-jeans-and-snowboard crowd was cavorting in deep powder at this California ski resort, called Northstar-at-Tahoe. Many of the same folks are back on these 8,000-ft. peaks, today--hiking up the rough slopes, now covered with rocks, weeds and pinecones--to play a round of "extreme golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gonzo Golfers Play On Ski Slopes | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...Snowboard 1978, popularized by Jake Burton in Vermont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Those heroes have crossed over into the mainstream. This year champion bass fisherman Denny Brauer, like Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, won a place on sports marketing's greatest icon: the Wheaties box. Snowboard pioneer Jake Burton taped a widely aired American Express commercial. And champion skateboarder Andy MacDonald signed on to do a spot for the Partnership for Drug-Free America--just one week after football legend Lawrence Taylor was arrested yet again on charges of cocaine possession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wider World Of Sports | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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