Off the beaten path of the NYC skate and streetwear scene in the Lower East Side there is a tiny little shop off Canal street on the west side called Rival. They are hands down the best skate shop in the city. They are the skateboarders skate shop. They are the BMX riders bike store. They are the real deal Holyfield, never perpetrating the fraud Nike SB dealer.
They are my peoples.
TODAY!
16 of the world’s best snowboarders will compete for their piece of the massive $100,000 prize purse at Red Bull Snowscrapers. Athletes will compete against the majestic backdrop of the New York City skyline in the East River Park from 6-9 pm.
Athletes include iconic Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White, freestyle / backcountry legend Travis Rice and ultra-progressive phenomenon Pat Moore. World renowned Burton riders for the ground-breaking event include Kevin Pearce, Mikkel Bang, Danny Davis, Kohei Kubo, Kazuhiro Kakubo, and snowboard legend Terje Haakonsen. Other confirmed riders include Nitro’s Andreas Wiig, DC’s Torstein Horgmo, Forum’s Jake Blauvelt and Greg Bretz, along with Rome rider Bjorn Leines and Ride’s JJ Thomas.
3:00pm – Gates open to the public
3:30pm – Riders open practice – All 16 riders
5:05pm – Valient Thorr Performance
5:45pm – Red Bull Snowscrapers contest starts – 60 minute jam session
7:10pm – Black Gold Performance
7:45pm – Red Bull Snowscrapers Finals – Jam session – Top 8 riders
8:50pm – Awards
8:55pm – Anthrax Performance
Red Bull Snowscrapers will utilize a jam session format for both the preliminaries and finals. In this format, a rider is neither dismissed nor defined by a single run or fall—rather, the athlete who consistently lands difficult and creative tricks with skill and style throughout the entire jam session is deemed the overall winner.
The Los Angeles Dodgers aren’t serious about keeping MANNY RAMIREZ in their uniform for the next several seasons. I would like to see him in a Mets uniform for the rest of his career. How do we accomplish this? We use the same tricky accounting tactics that have brought the banking system to the verge of collapse.
The new Mets’ ballpark in Queens is being named CitiField after the CitiBank corporation secured the rights to the name. The same CitiBank that has been grabbing a fistfull of the American taxpayers retirement funds in order to buy jet planes for their executives and other bullshit that we don’t even know about.
CitiBank needs to pony up a billion dollars to the Mets so that they can sign MANNY RAMIREZ for the next fifty years. They can call it a World Series write down. All MANNY wants is to be paid more money than ALEX RODRIGUEZ and I agree with that. Gay-ROD hasn’t done shit other than blow DEREK JETER and have his tips frosted.
This is our effin’ money party people.
Enjoy your Super Bowl party family and please drink responsibly.
I wouldn’t want any of my closest friends to be assed out.
Nah’Mean?!?
The Nike Sportswear NYC Hall of Fame is about the best thing in the world I can think of right now. Everything I love to talk about is all in the same building. NYC sports legends, Nike products and ballpark concessions food. I unfortunately OD’d on the Cracker Jacks and hot dogs at this last session. Next time I will definitely say “No Mas!”
CHRIS ISENBERG is the host for these interviews and where I felt like CHRIS didn’t hit his marks with DWIGHT ‘Doc’ GOODEN he scored with this session’s icon, HARRY CARSON. Ultimately, it wasn’t CHRIS’s fault but some athletes are very reserved and need encouragement to speak publicly, while some jocks are happily jocular and will talk for hours on end about a topic. I’m sorry I missed the AMANI TOOMER session last month.
HARRY CARSON was the anchor of the New York Giants football team that may have had one of the single greatest seasons in pro football history. The 1986 New York Giants were such an incredible, irresistible force on the field because their defense dominated teams in every aspect of play. I’m still surprised that sportswriters don’t mention this team in the same breaths as the classic Steelers, Bears and Ravens squads. HARRY CARSON played alongside GEORGE MARTIN, LEONARD MARSHALL, MARK HAYNES, CARL BANKS, ELVIS PATTERSON and possibly thr greatest defensive player of all time – LAWRENCE TAYLOR.
HARRY CARSON was funny and serious. It was interesting to listen to him recount his early years with the Giants and then their emergence as the dominant defensive team they became. He recalled his friendships with head coach BILL PARCELLS and the mercurial superstar that TAYLOR had become under the bright lights. CARSON even credited JIM BURT with creating the “Gatorade splash” that was made popular during their 1986 title season. More than anything else HARRY CARSON defied the notion of linebackers and their personalities. He was someone I could have listened to for hours on end.
