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After the Snowboard Slopestyle Elimination round earlier in the day, the Snowmobile Freestyle Final and the men's Snowboard SuperPipe Elimination certainly had some fireworks to cap off a great day in Aspen, Colorado. In Snowmobile Freestyle, Caleb Moore in his first run under-rotated on an attempted backflip indian air, having his snowmobile's skis dig in the snow and struck him on the way down. Moore got up and walked under his own power but had sustained a concussion and left Buttermilk Mountain to Aspen Valley medical center for further evaluation. Defending gold-medalist Colten Moore also slammed in his first run from the same hit on the double-double section where his brother Caleb suffered a concussion. Moore was crooked going into the hit and over-rotated, landing on his right side. Colten was also transferred to the Aspen Valley medical center on a gurney with what is estimated to be a right hip injury. Joe Parsons, a 9-time medalist in X-Games snowmobile ev...

Winter X Games kicked off its four-day festival with the men's snowboard slopestyle elimination round with 16 of the best riders in the world in Aspen, Colorado.  Yesterday in practice Shaun White and Mark McMorris landed a triple-cork on the money-booter (aka the final jump), setting the tone for what's to come Saturday in the slopestyle final. Peetu Pieroinen got it going in his first run with a double-backflip 180 along with a frontside 1080 melon on the final money-booter with an 81.33 and stuck with his first run to qualify in the top eight. Max Parrot showed his proficiency with two double-corks on both monster ramps with slick work on the rails scoring a 75.66. Max had an ace run on his second go, but bailed on the money-booter after under-rotating on a double-cork. Stale Sandbech from Norway got a little squirrely on his first run of the elimination scoring a 33.33. Sandbech unfortunately canned his second run on the cannon, ending his day. Roope To...

" Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. "  Lou Holtz.  The 2012  Notre Dame  Fighting Irish, a team that symbolized  Rudy  in its purest form, a team faced with challenges, and overwhelming adversity.   If anyone has ever watched  Rudy , this year’s Irish are him in a team form. Notre Dame started this season unranked in the AP Poll, lacking recognition and respect that the university truly desired to gain back.  A program laughed at, made fun of, and ultimately kicked to the curb for 15 years, much like Mr. Ruettiger, would have its chance.  The Irish responded by thumping Navy 50-10 to open the season at Aviva Stadium in Ireland.  The week after, the Irish survived a 20-17 scare against the Purdue Boilermakers, needing a Kyle Brindza field goal at the end to go 2-0.  After a week off, Notre Dame (2-0) entered East Lans...

Every new coach is judged by his third season at the helm if they get that far, for Brian Kelly, it was an opportunity at reviving a once iconic program who were the butt of every overrated joke there was in sports at the time. After Rick Reilly's  crass and demeaning words towards the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program back in mid-August, the team began its 13-week odyssey with a trip to Ireland against the Navy Midshipmen. With senior running back Cierre Wood suspended due to team violations, the Irish nonetheless racked up 293 yards on the ground. It was the emergence of fellow backs Theo Riddick, who had 19 carries for 107 yards and two scores, and freshman George Atkinson III who averaged 11 yards per rush on only nine carries and two touchdowns as well. Over 35,000 people traveled from the United States to Ireland for that game. That is the most people traveling outside the U.S for a sporting event ever. So much for this team being irrelevant eh Rick? The week...

Commit 93 yards in penalties: Check. -4 on the turnover margin: Check. Your best wide receiver dropping  multiple passes: Check Your quarterback throwing an interception at the 1-yard-line to end the game (again): ...... This is definitely making next Sunday's finale against the equally lowly New York Jets to be the first annual incompetence convention in Orchard Park. The Buffalo Bills fell completely flat on their collective faces after a 24-10 drubbing by the Miami Dolphins at Sun Life Stadium this afternoon. The Bills are now at 5-10 and are locked in the sixth overall spot in the 2013 NFL draft. What went wrong? I think the better question would be what went right? Because the latter is far shorter of an answer than the previous. You could write a tell-all memoir of the previous. In fact, it could rival all seven books of Harry Potter in terms of material for the Bills' lack of competence. Plain and simple, this team took the word "tanking" to an ...

50-17. Is there really any other way to say it? I repeat, 50-17. No matter how many times I write it, the impact is the same. The Buffalo Bills are the joke of the National Football League. Not the Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, or San Diego Chargers, it is the Bills. Russell Wilson taking an afternoon stroll into the end-zone against Buffalo. (USA TODAY) The Seattle Seahawks, with their rookie third-round quarterback Russell Wilson, singlehandedly dismantled and ultimately embarrassed the Bills defense like it has never been embarrassed before. And believe me, the 49ers and the first Patriots game were nothing compared to seeing what Seattle did to them in Toronto late Sunday afternoon. Seattle made Toronto their playground. The Bills made it their cemetery. The Seahawks on their first two possessions, ran around Rogers Centre like they were the Jamaican relay team and the Bills were nothing but exchange zones between them and the goal-line. Wilson, who th...

August 16th, 2012. It was a day when a certain award-winning sportswriter for ESPN wanted to make a statement regarding one of college football's most iconic programs. Rick Reilly, Notre Dame's ultimate critic. Sports fans, college football fans, and especially Notre Dame fans read the column written by Rick Reilly on www.espn.com regarding Notre Dame football and its recent struggles. Reilly did not hold back on his sentiments that Notre Dame should be "demoted". He even went as far as to say that the Irish would have been halfway down the Mountain West Conference after their string of failed expectations over the years. But one certain list that Reilly wrote turned every domer's face beat-red. "From now on: • Notre Dame no longer gets its own television deal with NBC. • Notre Dame no longer gets to be the only school in the country with an inexplicable seat at the BCS decisions-making table. • Notre Dame no longer gets its yearly undeserved h...