20 hours of live programming on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will be offered July 31-August 3. X Games 14 coverage will also be delivered on ESPN International, EXPN.com, ESPN Classic, ESPN360.com, SportsCenter and ESPN2's X Center.
Thursday, July 31
8 p.m.-9 p.m. — ESPN — X Center, BMX Street Final
9 p.m.-11 p.m. — ESPN — Skateboard Big Air Final, Moto X Best Trick Final
Midnight-1 a.m. — ESPN 2 — X Center, Moto X Best Whip
Posted By alex in BMX | Thursday, July 31, 2008 2 Comments
X Games starts today but Brian Kachinsky got started without us! He qualified 4th yesterday in a field of pretty heavy hitters and is on track to take home a medal and some dough.
Look for him to tear it up this afternoon, 4:30pm at the Staples Center in the first ever X Games BMX Street Competition here in LA.
Surfline tagged along with Brett Simpson on the day of his Semi Finals heat in the US Open. Check out Surfline.com for a closer look at the HB local in his hometown.
Posted By alex in BMX | Thursday, July 31, 2008 2 Comments
Adam Baker reports from the Red Bull Empire of Dirt:
Wow what a contest. Kyle Forte has put together one of the craziest courses of all time. After my sixteen hours of travel I arrived in London to find that the airlines had lost my baggage. At first it was no big deal but after a few days it was a real bummer. No clean clothes, no toothpaste, and worst of all no bike.
Chris Doyle had had the same problem with his baggage a week earlier and had put together a new...
Here's a little teaser for y'all that will definitely get you pumped for X Games this weekend! We stole this shot of Potter getting upside down during practice from the new Mulisha site.
Actually X Games events start tonight with Best Trick and Best Whip! Check the full competition and TV schedule so you don't miss a thing.
We shot Sally... and she's lookin' good! Sally Fitzgibbons was in town for the US Open but we caught up with her last week for her first etnies photo shoot.
If there's one thing to be said about Sally Fitzgibbbons, it's that she's a happy kid. She's genuinely happy and really fun. Everything about her is so undeniably fresh and clean, from her smile to her goofy jokes. She'll wear her etnies flip flops on her hands behind her back and ask if, when only given a split second...
Posted By alex in Girl | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1 Comments
Tarah Gieger's ready for X Games 14... are you? Check out this Transworld vid of Tarah in training, then check out her blog for all the action leading up to this weekend's madness.
Posted By alex in Girl | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1 Comments
Tarah Gieger took 3rd at last weekend's WMA Round 4 in Washougal and is now heading westward for the first-ever women's Moto comp at X Games! She's already made women's Moto history so expect her to do the same this weekend in LA. Good luck Tarah!
Best Whip material? We think so!