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...Professional Kiteboard Riders Association World Cup Tour. Yep, there's a kiteboarding circuit now. The pastime - in which riders on small boards are propelled by large kites in order to glide over or jump atop bodies of water (and sometimes on sand, grass or snow) - is the extreme sport of the moment. "Four years ago, kiteboarding was just for a few determined and durable extreme athletes," says Trip Forman, co-owner of Real Kiteboarding, a kiteboarding school in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. "But now there's good, inexpensive gear, and people can take classes from certified pros." Next stop...
...meet the first of the day: 11 a.m. news conference. The media likes pointing the spotlight but doesn't court the same attention, and few see inside the conferences that hatch each day's game plan. There, sitting side by side, Stutchbury and Mitchell quiz the editors of the sport, business, arts and world pages on their strongest yarns. Then Whittaker runs through a list of 36 news stories offered by bureau chiefs around the country. Some stories will crash during the day, others will blossom and some will need more time. And one may become the splash, the main...
Like a lot of 15-year-old boys, josh Taylor doesn't care for school. "About the only thing I'm interested in," he grumbles, "is sport." Which rather narrowed the field when it came to choosing something for Year 10 work experience. Ideally, he'd have played footy - Australian Rules - like he does for his club on Sunday afternoons. But that wasn't going to happen. So he arranged what he figured was the next best thing: a stint with the Melbourne Cricket Club, which manages the game's grandest stage. It's a Friday morning and Josh...
...just teen and pre-tween girls taking up the sport. Women approaching middle age are the latest converts--like Barb Odanaka, 41, author of the biographical kids' book Skateboard Mom and a founder of the International Society of Skateboarding Moms. At her skate camps in San Diego, Segovia says, she sees women 14 to 40 perfect their techniques with a program of yoga, skateboarding lessons and surfing. "Mothers come with their daughters now. It's about women of all ages reaching their dreams...
Mark Spitz is in as complete command of his sport as any other athlete in history. There are many reasons for his proficiency, but his physical attributes alone would seem to give him a pool-length advantage over a greased porpoise. He carries 170 lbs. easily on a tightly compacted 6-ft. frame. Hanging from his wide shoulders are a pair of long supple arms terminating in a pair of scoop-shovel hands that can pull him cleanly through the water with scarcely a ripple. He also has the curious ability to flex his lower legs slightly forward...