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Snowboarding History: Tom Sims: From skateboards to snowboards

Tom Sims, who maintains that he invented snowboarding after creating a "skiboard" in 1963, moved to California in 1970, running a skateboarding shop in Santa Barbara. Skateboarding quickly exploded, with Sims himself as wo Copyright 2012 Summit Daily News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Summit Daily News Snowboarding History: Tom ...

Rob Lowe Stands By His Reporting; Lacrosse is the Druggiest College Sport

Today in sports: Rob Lowe defends his Peyton Manning retirement scoop, Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco cannot recklessly ride his skateboard in peace, and the inventor of the football flak jacket has died.

Stacy Peralta Talks Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

The director of Dogtown & Z Boys discusses his new doc on the greatest skate team ever.

Bones Brigade: Sundance Film Review

Justin Lowe The director behind the lucrative "Dogtown and Z Boys" revisits skateboarding to similar success. read more

Taking a look at Irvine’s young inventors

Take a bowl of liquid soap, add a pinwheel accessorized with small round attachments and blow. This invention, which makes bubbles, is the creation of a local elementary school student vying to win a prize in this year's annual Astounding Inventions...