When Sport and Family Collide: Shaun White Snowboarding
My sister is an accomplished writer and journalist in, among other topics, video games. So I nearly crapped my pants when she told me she was flying to Montreal in order to preview a new video game, Shaun White Snowboarding, that was being developed in part by White himself. The preview appears in the June [...]
Shaun White Has a New Site
This actually may be old news, but it’s news to me. In 2006, I wrote an open letter to Shaun White about the deplorable state of his website (it eventually became a surprisingly popular article). The gist of the letter was: dude, for a famous guy, your website sucks. In recently visiting shaunwhite.com again, however, [...]
Shaun White, X Games and More: Snowboarding News Roundup
Short post day today, as I didn’t have much time at the keyboard. Lots of news in the snowboarding world to report on, though: Shaun White and Burton Snowboards sign a 10 year endorsement deal: That’s pretty crazy. According to Burton’s press release, the partnership deal is the longest in the history of snowboarding. Two [...]
Shaun White, Shaun White and More Shaun White.
Holy moly. Jeep Action Sports is running a crapload of video interviews with Shaun White, everyone’s favourite Flying Tomato (I read somewhere that he actually hates that moniker). The site seems to be a big-assed Jeep ad, but what the hey. Shaun seems like a nice dude. He talks about autographs, the freedom of riding, [...]
