The Action Sports Report

...Ed.'s Note: The Action Sports Report is a weekly blog that covers sports from skateboarding to snowboarding to FMX.] A COUPLE MINUTES WITH SLATER: Kelly Slater has locked up his ninth world...

The Action Sports Report

A weekly update from the world of action sports.

The Gamer Blog: Talking Skate 2 and Madden

...walk again. Not after breaking his back only a few days before Christmas 2003 while on a skateboarding tour in Australia. Not after the doctors witnessed the damage inflicted on his vertebrae by the accident...

The Action Sports Report

...The Ubisoft professional game players gave an introduction and then I came out. We talked about sports: skateboarding, snowboarding, and soccer, which I played as a kid. They didn't know how a videogame was...

A Darker Shade of White

You think of Shaun White as that smiling snowboarder from Torino. But the world's best skaters know now that this Flying Tomato can crush 'em

Road Tested

Cal Bears Mike Tepper and Rulon Davis have little in common, besides the way each of them almost died

The Legend Of Willie Mac

Once upon a time, there was a kid named Will Mackenzie who could play golf. Really, really well. As it happens, that's just the beginning of his big little story.

LIGHTNING RODS

...is eyeing Bobby Thigpen's record of 57 saves, and Paul "P-Rod" Rodriguez is dominating the skateboarding world. But we suspected they weren't the only newsworthy Rods. We were right. B-ROD: British...

SECOND LOOK: FIELDS OF STUDY

[Ed.'s Note: In the latest issue of The Mag, Brett Zarda outlines a few of the major sports science studies making headlines today. Here's a little mo...

SPORTING EQUIVALENCY: THE JOKER

...A man self-possessed and skeptical of authority, he was the first to make surfing more like skateboarding with aerial moves and aggressive styling. That was before he got into drugs and " target="new"> disappeared...

JUST ANOTHER LONELY MILLIONAIRE SKATEBOARDER

Reality TV star. Budding biz mogul. Teen skate great. Heading into X Games XIV, triple threat Ryan Sheckler leads a pack of action athletes redefining stardom.

REPORTING FROM ... THE MALOOF MONEY CUP PRESS CONFERENCE

This July, Sacramento Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof are holding the 1st Maloof Money Cup, a skateboarding comp with a $100,000 first-place prize (the largest ever for a skateboarding event). A couple...

Jake Brown (arms crossed) and Rob Dyrdek (pointing) join with the Maloofs to bring skateboarding to a whole new level

THE MAGAZINE EDITORS BLOG: LONG LIVE CRICKET!

...fours) 15. Sepak Takraw (Continental Asia) 16. Korfball6 17. Wheelchair tennis 18. Drag racing 19. Paintball7 20. Skateboarding 21. Tennis (women's) 22. Water Polo 23. NASCAR (Craftsman Trucks Series) 24. Bowling (PBA) 25. Yoga...

THE MAGAZINE EDITOR'S BLOG: DAMN YOU, TLDC!

...15. Sepak Takraw (Continental Asia) 16. Volleyball 17. Thoroughbred racing 18. Drag racing 19. Barrel racing 20. Skateboarding 21. Tennis (women's) 22. Water Polo 23. NASCAR (Craftsman Trucks Series)6 24. Bowling (PBA) 25...