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Talk about your roots. I grew up in Minnesota and started snowboarding when I was fourteen. My cousin got a snowboard from his friend who moved to Minnesota from California. [...]

For ten years now, TWS has worked hard to answer the eternal question, 'Where should I ride?' It's not a task that we take lightly. Whether you're in search of [...]

Dylan Thompson. Salt LAke City, Utah. HOTO: SEAN K. SULLIVAN Jody Wachniak. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada PHOTO: SCOTT SERFAS David Carrier-Porcheron. Whistler backcountry, Canada. PHOTO: ASHLEY [...]

Unlike most snowboard photographers who are documenting action, Lozza works conceptually. He comes up with an idea for an image--a theme, a scene, or a feeling he wants to create--and [...]

The Frenchman has been on the scene for over a decade, quietly knocking off a mind-blowing four world championships in boardercross and, more recently, another three in freeriding, epitomizing along [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This Silas fella, he's a little south of north, not your average bear. You'll be more likely to find him skating around Chicago with his dog Kip than [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rumors, speculation, hype, leaked information, straight-up lies, and pure raw anticipation had been surrounding the release of Stay Gold since well since the words 'Stay Gold' first appeared [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sometimes life gets real. A lot of longtime Cervantes fans, myself included, might have wondered what had happened to the mayor of Whittier after he looked like the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TOPPS HAD BEEN ISSUING baseball cards with bubble gum for a decade, and selling Bazooka Bubble Gum all by its lonesome for quite some time when, in 1959, [...]

When I ran across a letter from Jackie Robinson to President Dwight Eisenhower the other day, it reminded me that Robinson's unique perch among baseball's immortals is colored far more [...]

As collectibles, postcards are popular, widely available, and for the most part relatively inexpensive. Deltiology, the official name for postcard collecting, is one of the most popular collectible hobbies in [...]

Imagine that you are in a position to rescue an important hobby institution, a genuine treasure that played a vital role in the growth and expansion of the hobby for [...]

'Joe, you never heard such cheering,' Marilyn Monroe said to her new husband, Joe DiMaggio, upon returning from a side trip during their honeymoon in 1954 where she had visited [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the best things about writing Stadia features for SCD these many years (17 and counting!) is the responses I've received from both [...]

Like about a million other collectors (a bit of hyperbole there), I wished I had kept my hobby involvement through my teenage and college years a good deal more active [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you close your eyes and conjure up visions of the perfect baseball card, you can certainly be forgiven if a vision of the 1953 Bowman Color Baseball [...]

Part 23 Stuff While gathering my research for this edition of Mickey Mantle: The Complete Collectibles Guide, I can't help but think just how many different Mickey Mantle collectibles exist. [...]

At the National Sports Collectors Convention in Baltimore, James Spence, president of JSA, one of the hobby's premier autograph authentication companies, debuted a sleek reference guidebook that he co-authored with [...]

John Rogers has had a compelling interest in baseball history ever since he was a young man, but his strides in addressing that interest over the last decade have been [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I know it's a tad unusual, but my good friend Ernie Montella created the spectacular Green Bay Packers Super Bowl plaque that you see shown here, and has [...]

It's probably just a coincidence, but the two players who arguably dominated the American and National Leagues through the decade of the 1980s are not likely to be elected to [...]

Danny Davis can touch his toes now. That's progress. It's a miracle, actually; one more in a series of miracles that have brought him even this far. On a freezing [...]

Sindre Iversen. Andermatt, Switzerland. PHOTO: DOMINIC ZIMMERMANN Gjermund Braaten. Folgefonna, Norwa. PHOTO: FRODE SANDBECH Niko Cioffi. Helsinki, Finland. PHOT: TIM PEARE Danny Larsen. Laax, Switerland. PHOTO: DOMINIC ZIMMERMAN Joe Sexton. [...]

Whether you jib, chase airtime, or simply link turns, there's a board in here for you. All heights, weights, and foot sizes-you're covered; 2011 's renaissance of snowboard shapes and [...]

Making snowboard movies is not rocket Science. You need snow, riders, and some camera equipment. A computer, too. Some would argue that a 'creative vision' and at least a couple [...]

Over the last five years, Marie-France Roy has gone from tenacious underdog to consummate video professional-we've watched the whole thing on film. Her part in Rome SDS' 2007 movie, Any [...]

When it came time to select a cover feature for our 10th anniversary issue, there was no debate. Ricky Carmichael graced the front page of our premiere issue back in [...]

'It's July 22 and we have approximately seven days until X Games Beaver Fever!' [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Behind his desk, cluttered with valves, pistons, rods, brackets, and bearings, the imperious Mitch [...]

Motocross has come a long way since the early days of TWMX. Back when the King of Supercross was still wracking up wins, the world was a little less complicated. [...]

Deep in a valley shadowed by the Pioneer and Sawtooth Mountains, the crackle of a four-stroke ricochets off a canyon's walls, as the sun retreats behind the jagged peaks above. [...]

Just before press time, Tim Ferry announced his retirement from the sport of motocross, as the nagging heel injury he suffered at last year's Daytona Supercross would not allow him [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kyle Leeper's eye for spot creativity has allowed him to drop full length video parts and magazine interviews on largely un-skated spots in a town more blown out [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DANIEL ESPINOZA. GAP TO FRONTSIDE FEEBLE. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RICK HOWARD. POLE JAM FRONTSIDE AIR. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DANIEL ESPINOZA. 360 OLLIE. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] VINCENT ALVAREZ. BACKSIDE 50-50. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When was the last time you guys saw one another? Kosick: Um, probably toward the end of Big Brother, which was about five and a half years ago. [...]

It travels at about 186,282 miles per second, which, if you didn't know any better, could be the speed at which Busenitz skates. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, infrared, and [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2,500 years of alchemy have never conjured gold from iron, nickel or lead. The ancient act of tinkering with metals to transmute them into precious gold and silver [...]

The 1955 Topps All-American football card set was the most innovative, well-designed, strategically produced and marketed vintage card sets of all-time. It is a snapshot back in time that showcases [...]

Richard Miller has written previously in Sports Collectors Digest that sports-themed testimonial dinner programs make terrific collectibles. There are programs from regularly scheduled dinners, such as those held annually by [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Oscar Robertson can be forgiven if he chuckles quietly to himself every time some Twentysomething NBA whiz kid struts like a peacock about hitting the coveted triple-double. It's [...]

CONNECTICUT Sep 10 CT, Wethersfield. Mr. Checklist Sportscard AUCTION. Comfort Inn, Silas Dean Hwy., exit 24 I-91. SH: preview 4:30pm, auction 7pm, 150 lots. A: Free. Tod Sweetland, 80 Hubbard [...]

One of the truly interesting good guys in the hobby is Ray Medeiros, a long-time collector and occasional dealer. I first met Ray in 1982 during the short-lived episode in [...]

In a season when you would occasionally hear mumbling about what might be ailing Albert Pujols, you could get a pretty good idea that the St. Louis Cardinals' amazing first [...]

A premium is something, usually a photograph with or without a facsimile autograph, that is given away for free or at a reduced price with the purchase of product or [...]