Ken Block was lounging on the balcony of a pleasantly elegant hotel in northern France, enjoying a view of rolling hills and vineyards while resisting the urge to theorize how fast he could rip through them in a rally car. In a day he and Ford would unveil his entry for the World Rally Championship, officially making him the first American to compete full-time in at the highest level of the ultra-popular, ultra-difficult off-road racing circuit.
"We remain deeply committed and loving parents to our daughter," the pro skateboarder and Lhotse Merriam say in a statement
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Teens in the U.S. donate skateboards to their Cuban counterparts. CNN's Patrick Oppmann reports.
Rene Lecour's plan started out simple: Take his son on a skateboarding trip to someplace "epic."
updated: Wed Jan 05 2011 02:34:00
A skateboarding school in Afghanistan offers more than an escape into sport for youth. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
The girls come tumbling through the door giggling and shrieking with excitement. They dash towards the neatly stacked shoes, knee guards, helmets, and skateboards.
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Dhani Harrison, Joseph Arthur and Ben Harper join forces as rock supergroup Fistful of Mercy.
Dhani Harrison cruises past the conference table on his skateboard and pops a trick in the corner of Hot Records -- the label founded by his father, the late Beatle George Harrison. A couple of minutes later, Joseph Arthur skates down the hall. Then Ben Harper walks in, a black-and-white board tucked under his arm.
From the first day he launched his online skateboard store in 2002, Mike Duncan faced a problem that has plagued retailers since the dawn of online shopping: abandoned shopping carts.
In need of a spring fling? Two new but very different video game releases this week should help.
Known for building skate parks and shaping the skateboarding scene in New York, Andy Kessler, 48, died this week after an allergic reaction to an insect sting, friends and family told news media.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Ryan Sheckler can't sit still. He paces back and forth inside the Roosevelt Hotel before sitting down for a moment and then getting back up.
I have never had many feelings about Andy Roddick. It always seemed to me that there are athletes you love and athletes you despise, athletes you respect and athletes you fear, athletes who can turn games into beautiful events and athletes who can turn your stomach inside out because you so badly want them to lose. And these are the ones you remember.
Microsoft Corp. on Monday unveiled its answer to the Nintendo Wii.
The Tank Girl star was charged with felony drunk driving after hitting a skateboarder
The skateboarder and wife Lhotse welcome daughter Kadence Clover
Jason Miller screams because he can't hear.
An intimate memorial for Heath Ledger, attended by immediate family and close friends including former girlfriend Naomi Watts, was held in Los Angeles on Saturday night just hours after the actor's death was marked at a New York event.
As part of Oprah Winfrey's YouTube-themed show, Sean "Diddy" Combs – who has been running a contest online to find a new personal assistant – made his choice on the program Tuesday.
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CNN's Matt West talks to Nicole Lapin about the latest video games on the market.
Skateboarding is all about cheeky defiance, which is exactly what Electronic Arts is sporting for going up against Activision's billion-dollar Tony Hawk skateboarding franchise.
Olympic champion pairs skaters Jamie Salé and David Pelletier welcomed their first child on Sunday.
It's been another big week for I-Reports. You have captured fantastic photos and video for several big stories this week, as well as telling CNN about stories going on right in their own backyards.
A number of readers sent comments about my Dany Heatley story that ran on May 30.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is keen for skateboarding to become an official sport at the 2012 London Games.
Andy Carlyle, the Anaheim Ducks' suffer-no-fools coach, is not a morning person. "His demeanor is, well, grumpy," says center Todd Marchant. "You say, 'Good morning.' And he says, 'Is it?'" But with late Monday blending into early Tuesday and his team about to exit Scotiabank Place outside Ottawa, he certainly did not look like a man whose toast is perpetually burnt. Following a 3-2 victory in Game 4 he seemed content with a split of two road games against the Senators, which moved the Ducks to a three-games-to-one lead in the Stanley Cup final with two of a possible three games to be played in Anaheim. Maybe it was Hockey Mourning in Canada for the Senators, but the Ducks were headed home with a chance to make Anaheim the 19th franchise to win hockey's iconic hardware since the NHL began awarding the Cup in 1927.
Angelina Jolie, Gus Van Sant and a terrorist lawyer share the Riviera screens
Their story reads like a figure skating fairy tale: Jessica Dube, a 19-year-old, French-speaker, and at 4 feet 11, a pixie princess. The handsome Bryce Davison, 21, was her English-speaking prince. Among Canada's top-ranked pairs skaters, they just clicked.
Earlier this week, I expressed the opinion that Dallas Stars president Jim Lites mistakenly got his knickers in a twist about the Nashville Predators' failure to acknowledge Mike Modano breaking the NHL career record for goals by an American player. To this old Canadian's way of thinking, Modano's record was so esoteric as to not be worth the fuss. Some of you felt somewhat differently.
My recent column about the best American players in NHL history drew a number of responses.
Plenty of parents fantasize about their child going to Harvard. But Paula and Gary Goldberg of Boca Raton, Fla. aspire instead to get their daughter Rachael, a high school junior, interested in sch...
Plenty of parents fantasize about their child going to Harvard. But Paula and Gary Goldberg of Boca Raton, Fla. aspire instead to get their daughter Rachael, a high school junior, interested in schools other than Harvard.
This year, David and Laurie Bergthold, of Oceanside, California, are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary -- surprising to some, considering the couple got engaged after knowing each other only four months, and were married four months after that.
A dozen or so representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross are headed for our military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and frankly I am concerned for their comfort and possibly even their health. They plan to meet with detainees there, specifically the 14 terrorists who have been held in recent years at secret CIA facilities abroad. After those meetings will the members of the Red Cross delegation have access to showers, baths and possibly a sauna? I hope so.
None of Russia's Olympic medallists will compete at this month's world figure skating championships in the Canadian city of Calgary.
NBC is asking viewers to vote for one of 12 U.S. Winter Olympians to join the contestants on the next series of "The Apprentice." Among the hopefuls are speed skaters, freestyle skiers, sledders and an ice hockey defender.
Compared to the disqualifications and bitter words that overshadowed the short track speed skating at the last Winter Olympics, the competition at the Palavela has been a constant procession of politeness. Until now.
Figure skater Sasha Cohen produced a stunning performance on the ice when she shimmied and sashayed her way through the ladies short program. And there was a stunning performance off the ice too, when two U.S. speed skaters pretended they liked each other.
If looks could kill, Italy's Maurizio Margaglio would be in serious trouble.
American Lindsey Jacobellis quite literally snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the unpredictable and wild sport of snowboardcross.
Michelle Kwan is gone. Bode Miller failed to win even a bronze in his first event. What's a U.S. advertiser at the Winter Olympics to do?
Do you have an inside tip on the Dutch capital? Send us your ideas and comments below.
Don't know a triple lutz from a death spiral? Can't tell the difference between downhill skiing and Nordic combined (and doesn't all skiing go downhill anyway)?
Speed skating evolved in The Netherlands as far back as the 13th century, with skaters streaming across frozen canals to relay messages between cities. Races began in The Netherlands in the late 17th century, but the first international competition was not held until 1863, in Norway.
Snowboarding was born only 40 years ago, combining elements of surfing and skateboarding in an attempt to create a new and exciting winter sports activity.
While skating in its most rudimentary form has been around for thousands of years, the sport of figure skating as we know it was developed with two great leaps forward in the mid-19th century.
College costs are going to hurt more. The government is cutting support for college loans. And in six months, interest rates on the cheapest money students and parents can borrow is going to rise.
Workers in a southern German town pressed their search in the snow early Tuesday for survivors after a roof partially collapsed at a Bavarian skating rink.
The death toll in the collapse of a German ice skating rink has climbed to 11, according to a police spokesman quoted by Reuters news agency.
When the weather turns Chilly, most mountain bikers push their bikes into the garage and keep them there until spring. For one biking devotee that wasn't good enough. Ray Petro, 39, a remodeling co...
[HIT] Geezer Aid. The Live 8 charity concerts held around the world on July 2 were an unqualified success, bringing out more than a million people to support the fight against poverty in Africa. Bu...
Athletic footwear giant Nike got a lesson in punk rock power recently with a promotion that looked a little too familiar to diehard fans of an 80's punk rock band known to be nonconformist, according to a report Monday.
When the sullen and fearless blond teenage boys in "Lords of Dogtown" ride their skateboards, never pausing to think about anything that isn't directly in front of them, the movie joins them right on the pavement, racing forward with grungy velocity, showing us what the skaters are seeing and feeling as they ride along back alleys, dilapidated asphalt playgrounds, and any other available surface: a world of trash transcended.
Iain Balshaw has his first England outing in more than a year when the world champions face Italy in Saturday's Six Nations 'Wooden Spoon' decider at Twickenham.
I'm about to launch myself down the face of a 60-foot sand dune, my stockinged feet strapped to a 41-inch-long wooden board. All I can think about is friction and the heat it causes, and then I won...
A German man has become the first person to cross Australia on a skateboard.
Ask any parent--if you tell kids what to do, they're sure to do the exact opposite. Tylenol seems to have read that child-rearing chapter, because lately it has been acting like the coolest parent ...
Upstart extreme sports are getting all grown up.
Can The Revenge of the Mummy, Halfpipe and The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror bring guests back to the nation's theme parks?
When Ted Monney opened a new skateboard shop in Hollywood five months ago, he decided to stock it with a surprising line of skate shoes: Nikes. More than a few of his customers chided him about car...
Guess what? "Jersey Girl" is a whole lot better than "Gigli."
In case you hadn't noticed, BMWs tend to be expensive. The German luxury car maker's latest addition to the line-up is no exception with its suggested retail price of $695.
Veteran fly-half Paul Grayson will replace injured kicker Jonny Wilkinson for England's opening Six Nations match with Italy in Rome on Sunday.
Aspen's longest running freestyle competition has received a facelift. Freestyle Fridays recently changed to a Friday Big Air competition, which kicked off December 28, 2003. The event will continue every Friday during February and March 2004.
The coolest things these days on America's ski slopes probably aren't the skiers, or even the snow-covered trails.
On a rotating stage bathed in blue light, the vehicle looked otherworldly, like something from far in the future. It was called the Autonomy, and vaguely resembled a giant skateboard. The only feat...
Tim Girskis recently strolled into Jack's Surf Shop in Huntington Beach, Calif., looking for some Mr. Zog's surfboard wax. He came out ready to buy a new mobile phone from an upstart cell-phone pro...
Take a wicked spill off your skateboard in the groundbreaking Gen-X action videogame Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and your face slams to the pavement, blood spewing all over. Still, however realistic th...
If you're willing to set aside for a moment the gigantic chicken-and-egg problem of where to get the hydrogen to run a new generation of efficient, nonpolluting hydrogen-powered cars, General Motor...
Consistent extraordinary performance. That quality defines the companies that top FORTUNE's Most Admired list. It also defines photographer Michael O'Neill (above left, at work on his latest subjec...
In 1999, when my son Jake headed off to kindergarten, he started receiving a $1-a-week allowance. As an added enticement, I told him that for really big purchases, I'd match his savings, 401(k)-sty...
Serial entrepreneur Mark Goldstein has started at least four companies, the last being Bluelight.com, which he sold to Kmart in 2001--good thing he got out then! Three months ago I asked him to joi...
It's Monday, 11 A.M., and I'm in the boss' office thinking I'm finally going to get that long-awaited promotion. "I want to tell you that we think you have great potential," she says with a stern f...
It's Monday, 11 A.M., and I'm in the boss's office thinking I'm finally going to get that long-awaited promotion. "I want to tell you that we think you have great potential," she says with a stern ...
For them, office hours are based on weather conditions. Seed-round funding comes from the money they've earned promoting other companies. More often than not, they conduct business not from behind ...
Robert Earl Wells IV likes to call himself the Martha Stewart of youth culture. God knows why. Perhaps it's because the 31-year-old marketing expert has hosted cooking segments with skateboarders a...
In my spare time, I am an elected borough councilman in a tiny town near the Jersey shore, where recently the townsfolk debated whether we should build a skateboard park near the local soccer field...
Take it from us: If you can't pronounce "JNCO," you're hopelessly out of touch. JNCO is the name in jeans for teenage boys, the brand that launched seriously wide-leg pants. JNCOs are so wide they ...
Now that in-line skating is the sport of choice for about 16 million free-wheeling Americans, including the likes of Madonna and J.F.K. Jr., the number of model styles in this $250 million market j...
$ A new political season is upon us, so your servant is once again wrestling with the Iowa Electronic Markets. As previously explained in this space, anybody on the planet possessing a computer, a ...
I WAS LEAVING SCHOOL WITH OLLIE, MY associate, when a kid with a pair of hockey skates slung over his shoulder came hustling toward us. ''Hey! Are you Jack B. Quick, sports detective?'' he asked. '...
JENNIFER ORCUTT AND JOE Galvin are on a roll. The two 9-year-olds from Redwood City, California, spend three to four hours a day jumping, twirling, and spinning around a roller-skating rink in perf...
IT'S EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE morning, an hour when most high school kids are just beginning to think about first-period class. Steve Reynolds is already in his first ''class'' of the day: He's skiing ...
That's Fred, the Federal Express man, staggering up the walk with several large overnight envelopes for my home office. That's my son's skateboard. Oh, no! Look out, Fred! This might be a good time...
Five days into the Senate hearings on the Bork nomination last September, the Washington Post/ABC News Poll picked up a blip -- a ''slight plurality of the public'' turning against confirmation. In...
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