October 31st, Halloween on Skates in France with Pari Roller

Imagine thousands of Skaters rolling down the streets of Paris.This is what happens thanks to Pari Roller every Friday evening around 9:30 pm for the past 9 years.Friday Night Fever celebrates its 10th Anniversary in 2008 and gets the Halloween treatment on October 31st as I...

Breaking wind, Ike-style

Hurricane Ike is taking its time moving into Houston, and a lot of kids are already getting restless. The neighborhood kids in south Houston decided to take advantage of the lack of rain and high winds to have a...

Puck Droppings: Zednick's neck gets cut by skate

Update "The Florida Panthers returned to practice at home on Tuesday morning while teammate Richard Zednik remained in a Buffalo hospital where his condition was upgraded to good.They may seem back to business as...

Indonesian athletes for Asian Indoor Games arrive in Macao

"Indonesia sent a total of 112 athletes for 13 numbers of sports, 24 coaches, 12 managers and 19 officials. The 13 sports numbers are aerobics, indoor athletics, bowling, chess, billiard, wall climbing, dance sports, southern lion dance, fin swimming, futsal, hoop takraw,...

Bust heads and toss wheels: RollerCon 2007

I am not in any way an athlete, but I did have a brief career in figure skating that was ended by a tragic backyard-swing accident (I broke my leg). Since then I've harboured a love for any sport that requires...

Skateboarding Gone Wild: SF event and elsewhere

Here's something to do while you wait for the fireworks this July 4th:  search Flickr for "skateboarding".  If you do you'll be rewarded with a flammer of fotos from all over the place.I found this...

Video Captures Police Aggression in Hot Springs, Arkansas

UPDATE: The original copy of the video is for sale on ebay. According to Drew Irwin, one of the videographers, the tape up for auction includes all events leading up to the incident. Here's a link to the ebay...

Last Skate at Empire Roller Skating Center in Brooklyn

The Empire Roller Skating Center in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn had its last skate this past Sunday. Said to be the birthplace of roller disco, the rink has long been a favorite destination for people of...

Electrical Short Blamed For Fire At Olympia Skate Center

" February 27, 2007 Georgia - The new owner of Olympia Family Fun expects to open tonight for a private party after fire damaged the front portico of the skating center at 5020 Mercer University Drive this morning. At 8:08 a.m., firefighters were alerted to the blaze, which...

Victorian Skating Party

"I am not entirely sure what a Victorian Skating Party entails, or who the hell came up with the idea, but it sounds awesome!"

Play a Free Concert, Get Dragged off by Police

I just found this video of police arresting band members from Set it Straight.  So I went and found this article that speaks to the band members being arrested by Redding Police after being asked to leave the skate park they were playing a free concert at on Sunday. The...

Dude, where's my cross?

Once part of the cast of the ultimate movie the Usual Suspects, Stephen Baldwin is now an "Unusual Suspect" the protagonist in his new book with the same name.  Salon.com quotes him at a recent live...

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