By USSA OLYMPIC VALLEY — It was locals day at Squaw Valley as Tim Jitloff (Reno) boosted his U.S. title count to four with a victory in the men’s giant slalom to close a sun soaked Day 1 of competition at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships. Jitloff is the 2008 and 2009 U.S. giant […]
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Sho Kashima began skiing when he was 4 when his dad was hired at Heavenly Mountain Resort. Growing up, Kashima idolized 1998 Olympic moguls champion Jonny Moseley, and it was Moseley’s gold in Nagano that inspired him to compete in the Olympics. He also looked up to U.S. moguls skiers Travis Cabral (ninth in at […]
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By USSA OLYMPIC VALLEY — Olympic gold medalist Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley) on Thursday took full advantage of home snow to win the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships giant slalom for a record 16th U.S. title. The Olympic gold medalist finished 0.88 in front of a red-hot Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.), 18, who had just […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the March 20, 2013, Sacramento Bee. If you read the full text of the federal indictment charging the former chief executive officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System with fraud and conspiracy, it would appear he did nothing more serious than crudely cut and paste the CalPERS logo […]
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By Renée Frojo, San Francisco Business Times “Your life called. It wants its balance back.” That’s one of the lines from North Lake Tahoe’s newest advertising campaign that’s trying to take some of the credit for the destination’s surprising boost in hotel bookings. Despite the severe lack of snow, hotel bookings in Tahoe are reportedly […]
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By Sean Gregory, Time What ticks off many college students even more than an 8am class? Finding out how much they pay for sports. B. David Ridpath, a professor of sports administration at Ohio University and a former president of the Drake Group, a college-sports watchdog organization, just finished polling about 4,000 students attending schools […]
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By USSA PARK CITY – Tahoe athletes are among the 35 skiers and snowboarders who will be competing at the 2013 FIS Freestyle Junior World Championships March 26-31 at Valmalenco, Italy. The event includes moguls, aerials, skicross, halfpipe and slopestyle. Headlining the team are U.S. Team members Mac Bohonnon (Madison, Conn.) in aerials, Ali Kariotis […]
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Spring brings fresh snow to Tahoe’s slopes. Avalanche danger is considerable, according to the Sierra Avalanche Center. Don’t ski out of bounds. Here is the March 21 ski report. — Curtis Fong
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By USSA TIGNES, France -– Despite the falling snow, Kelly Clark (West Dover, Vt.) took her 62nd podium and the gold medal at the X Games Tignes women’s halfpipe on Wednesday. Elena Hight (South Lake Tahoe) rode away with the silver and 16-year-old rookie Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) landed on the podium with bronze. […]
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• Barton Memorial Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Facility recently received the highest rating of five-stars from U.S. News & World Report in the publication’s best nursing homes list for 2013. • California Tahoe Conservancy is putting on a two-day workshop about the Upper Truckee River restoration project. Click on the flyer for more info about the May […]
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