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OLYMPIC SNOWBOARDER Greg Bretz remembers fatal hit and run victim and friend from Santa Barbara as he wins first qualifying event for 2014 games.

Shaun White tweaked the ankle during his first run in the halfpipe finals of an event in Breckinridge, Colo., on Saturday.

Walker poses with her subject at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Pearce has since returned to snowboarding, though he's taking it slow.

THE Tasmania Fire Service will today unveil a new firefighting truck, water-bombing helicopter and emergency warning system before tomorrow's expected high fire danger conditions.

Russia's Caucasus Mountains are more than 6,000 miles from Park City, Utah. But the undulating course on which the Nordic combined will be contested at the 2014 Sochi Olympics unfolds on the video screen here in front of Bryan Fletcher , who roller-skis at a carefully calibrated pace on a treadmill wide enough for a Chevy Suburban.

A teen girl channels her budding sexuality into a romantic fixation on the director of her weight loss camp in this challenging drama from Ulrich "The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty.

Grete Eliassen is a U.S. freestyle skier who has always enjoyed pushing herself and her sport to new heights.

This year's film is entitled "Ticket to Ride", narrated by Olympic Gold Medalist, Jonny Moseley and was shot throughout the world at locations such as Kazakhstan, Iceland, Greenland, Colorado, Utah and Alaska.

Kevin Robinson, winner of 10 "X Games" medals for BMX riding, proved that he is also skilled at delivering messages of working hard and living your life to the fullest, when he spoke to 400 eighth graders at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School of Coventry Friday morning, Dec. 13. Robinson, known as K-Rob to most, was invited to ASFMS by Michele ... (more)

British slopestyle snowboarder Jenny Jones will be out of action until the new year after suffering concussion in a training crash in Austria.

Snowboarders hit features in the Central Park terrain park at Copper Mountain. This week the worlds best skiers and riders are in Copper Mountain for the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix, a U.S. Olympic team qualifying event.

Alexandra Duckworth, a Nova Scotian halfpipe athlete who lives in Whistler, posted the best result of her career at the World Cup in Ruka, Finland, placing sixth overall.

PlayStation is marking the launch of Gran Turismo 6 with the social video documentary "First Love," which focuses on Andretti and the moment he fell in love with his 1948 Hudson Hornet.

Shaun White found himself on the "Road to Couchi" on Sunday - not exactly where he wanted to be with a key Olympic qualifying event going on outside.

Maybe it's our love of the outdoors or that eternally competitive spirit that burns inside us which drives us to the arenas and stadiums.

Hmm. William Shatner just can't seen to keep himself away from flames and explosions.

Wanaka snowboarder Rebecca Sinclair has given her qualification prospects for the Sochi Winter Olympics a significant boost at a World Cup event in Ruka, Finland.

David O. Russell out-Scorseses Martin Scorsese himself with "American Hustle," a rollicking '70s crime romp that's ridiculously entertaining in all the best possible ways.

Canadian Marielle Thompson won the women's small final on Sunday to finish fifth at a skicross World Cup event and retain the overall leader's bib.

Breckenridge's Bobby Brown goes big in Sunday's final round of slopestyle at the 2013 Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships.