By USSA KITZBUEHEL, Austria -– Victory at the famed Hahnenkamm downhill eluded Bode Miller (Franconia, N.H.) yet again as the Olympic champion finished third in Kitzbuehel. Miller, who won the only training run, skied a tactically tight line for every ounce of speed but made a drastic mistake going into a flat section to drop […]
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By Kathryn Reed Work will be begin this spring on a multi-use softball and Little League field at the Al Tahoe complex in South Lake Tahoe. Steve Noll, who is on the Fields Advisory Committee for the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority, explained Jan. 24 to the JPA board how the area […]
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By USSA ASPEN -– Olympians Nate Holland (Squaw Valley) and Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountan, Vt.) took snowboardcross gold at X Games Aspen Friday, less than two weeks before heading to Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. It was Holland’s seventh X Games gold medal, and came after a serious shoulder injury earlier this […]
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The second annual Carve Tahoe international snow sculpture event returns to Northstar Jan. 28-Feb. 2. Three-member teams from Canada, Finland/Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, California/Netherlands, Tahoe/Truckee and Wisconsin will participate in the competition, creating sculptures from 20-ton blocks of snow using only hand tools, snow and water. Snow sculpture events celebrate the science of […]
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By USSA CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — With just two weeks to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, two-time Olympian Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain) posted her best Audi FIS Alpine World Cup finish of the season with fifth in the first of two downhills slated for Cortina. Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley) also showed her speed with ninth […]
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By Case Keefer, Las Vegas Sun Odds are Las Vegas will never play host to a Super Bowl. That’s fine, because our city stages the game within the game on an annual basis. The NFL can try to deny the role gambling has played in making it the country’s most popular sports league all it […]
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Representatives from 11 North Lake Tahoe environmental foundations and nonprofit organizations gathered at Northstar Jan. 16 to participate in the inaugural Northstar Ski Challenge. Teams competed for a prize purse totaling more than $23,000 in cash and in-kind donations. Each organization’s team received a Northstar Ski Challenge passport at the start of the day; skiers […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post X Games owner ESPN and the Aspen Skiing Co. announced Wednesday a deal that would keep the winter carnival of now-Olympic athleticism at Aspen’s Buttermilk ski area for another five years. The X Games launches its 13th year in Aspen this week. By 2019, the Roaring Fork Valley will have […]
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U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews resumed prescribed fire operations Jan. 23 off Highway 89 near South Lake Tahoe. Crews are burning piles in the Luther Pass campground and will continue operations through Jan. 24, weather and conditions permitting. All prescribed fire projects are conducted in accordance with an approved prescribed fire burn plan. Burn […]
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By USSA CORTINA d’AMPEZZO, Italy -– Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley) continued to gain momentum toward Sochi with seventh place Thursday in an Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G in Cortina for her best race of the season. Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain) added to the U.S. momentum with ninth, her best super G finish since […]
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