Archive for 'Action Sports'

Snowbird opening day powder video

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Opening day video at Utah’s Snowbird Resort with completely untracked powder after the jump…:

Big roller derby article in NYT

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

The ‘gray lady’ straps on a helmet and some torn fishnets with a big profile of roller derby 2.0:
WOMEN’S roller derby is undoubtedly having a moment in New Jersey; at least seven leagues, with more than a dozen teams, have sprouted statewide since 2005. (Some leagues have only a single team.) But Mickey Taylor, a …

Ultraman rules…

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

A lot of American kids who came up in the 70’s remember seeing Ultraman on TV, but in reality there’s like a million of them in countless different “series” in Japan. Here’s the first four Ultraman…er….Ultramen:

Aptly named Warren Dick disses Patrick Roy

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Earlier this week we wrote about the legendary Canadians goalie Patrick Roy, who’ll rightfully be honored with the retirement of his number later this fall in Montreal. He’s already had his number retired by the Colorado Avalanche, and now his number #33 will take place among what is essentially a wing of the Hockey …

Montreal Canadians to retire Patrick Roy’s number 33

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Hockey season is right around the corner–the NHL season starts on 10/3/08–and that’s good news for us here at THE SAVAGE SCIENCE. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that one of our all time favorite players–Patrick Roy–is getting his number retired for the 2nd time on November 22nd. His #33 has already …

Nobody Rides For Free

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Here’s the unappreciated L.A. metal band Ratt performing “Nobody Rides For Free” from the classic bank robbing surfers film Point Break:

Great Moments in Olympic History: 2004 Women’s Beach Volleyball

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Here at THE SAVAGE SCIENCE we’ve all caught a raging case of “Olympic fever”. Either that, or we ate some bad clams–we’re not 100% sure. In any case, we’re going to celebrate the games with a series we’re calling “Great Moments in Olympic History”.
Face it, there are plenty of lame events …

Great moments in Olympic history: 2006 Men’s Halfpipe

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

One of our staffers heard somewhere that the Summer Olympics were underway in China. With all due respect to the serious sports taking place at the Olympics like judo, fencing and boxing we greatly prefer the Winter Olympics. The only “pool sports” we care about take place at Bare @ The Mirage and …