By Jason Blevins, Denver Post The showdown became a battle of East vs. West at the Burton U.S. Open Saturday, with Shaun White eking past Japan’s rising son of snowboarding Ayumu Hirano to win his fifth open title. White’s second run — with five tricks including back-to-back double-cork 1080s and back-to-back double 1260s — earned […]
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By Bonnie Rochman, Time One recent evening in West Caldwell, N.J., a library hosted a pajama party. Twenty little kids in princess nightgowns and football flannels counted out glittery animal stickers and pasted them onto homemade dominoes. Then they raced a stuffed pink frog on a carabiner up and down a zipline, raising and lowering […]
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By USSA PARK CITY -– John Teller (Mammoth Lakes) defended his lead down the tight, technical course to win the USANA Skicross and the U.S. Championship title at the Sprint Grand Prix at Canyons Resort on March 1. Madeline Riffel (Mammoth Lakes) recovered after a first turn crash to snag second in the women’s race, […]
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By USSA GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.) became the sixth U.S. Ski Team women’s speed athlete to finish in the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup top three this season with a stunning second in the Garmisch downhill on Saturday. With her career first podium, Ross also became the fourth U.S. woman to land […]
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There will be a change in weather later today. Come support Special Olympics. I’ll be calling the play-by-play at the Special Olympics Celebrity Winterfest at Diamond Peak. Here is the Feb. 2 ski report. — Curtis Fong
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By Kathryn Reed A unified anti-tax voice permeated the room as state Sen. Ted Gaines and Assemblyman Frank Bigelow spoke Friday to their constituents in South Lake Tahoe. The two Republican legislators meandered through the crowd at Riva Grill before each addressed the assembled guests. “We don’t need additional taxes, what we need is to […]
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Stampeding elephants, raging typhoons, and runaway trains will fill the Duke Theatre stage as the Lake Tahoe Community College Theater Arts Department presents the hit comedy “Around the World in 80 Days”. Performances are March 15, 16, 21, 22, and 23 at 7:30pm, with Sunday matinees on March 17 and 24 at 2pm. The year […]
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To the community, B Gorman, president of the Tahoe Chamber, has discovered evil. And it’s the Sierra Club. Why the Sierra Club? Well, in Ms. Gorman’s view the Sierra Club has filed a “frivolous” lawsuit that Gorman thinks is designed to prevent collaboration among stakeholders in the Tahoe basin. Translated, the Sierra Club is opposed […]
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Carol Chaplin, Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority executive director, won the March 1 Dancing with Your Stars competition at MontBleu. The audience voted, plus there were the judges — Pat Ronan, Marcia Sarosik and Paul Middlebrook. The March 1 event was a fundraiser for Tahoe Arts Project.
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee Placer County supervisors approved a plan Tuesday that is expected to keep many thousands of pounds of fine sediment from entering Lake Tahoe. The plan, to be submitted to the state Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, includes the use of coarser sand on roads this winter to improve […]
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