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Ski Channel launches Snowbiz 250 - the 250 most influential people in snowsports

It was announced today at the SnowSports Industry Americas' SIA Snow Show that The Ski Channel has launched its first annual “SNOWBIZ 250” which is a comprehensive list of the most influential people in snowsports for the 2009/2010 ski and snowboard season. The list includes athletes,...

5 of Hollywood's best ski movies of all time (arguably)

1. Hot DogNaive corn-pone skiing wunderkind picks up beautiful hitchhiking bimbo on way to ski competition. Once at the ski competition he is taunted in the daytime and laid at night, by different people. Four letter words, stoopid ethnic stereotypes (the Asian skiier's dancing looks like martial...

Climb in snow sport sales

Finally! After the long haul the recession has taken us through with slumped sales we are finally seeing a climb in some sectors of snow sports sales. According to Mike Lewis of Transworld business, "while overall 2009 sales were off 3 percent, Amer Sports, parent company of Salomon, Arc’teryx,...

Bitch snowboards gets Hollywood's signed approval

Bitch Snowboards CEO and creator, Alex Masterson is well connected and she is not shy about using those connections...for a good cause of course! This week I checked in with her to learn of her efforts:"BitchBoards® joins the celebrity effort in the 'WE ARE THE WORLD' remake to benefit...

Squaw Valley legend and Olympic medalist Jimmie Heuga dies

LOUISVILLE, CO (Feb. 8) – Olympic medalist Jimmie Heuga, a star of the 1964 Olympic Winter Games and one of the U.S. Ski Team's greatest ski racers, died Monday, February 8 . His death came on the eve of the Olympics in Vancouver and 46 years to the day after his medal. Heuga, who was...
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