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Baltimore-based Zipline Ski celebrates Olympic gold win by freestyle skiier David Wise

By Lorraine Mirabella

Feb 22, 2018

Baltimore-based Zipline Ski, a company started after the last Winter Olympics in 2014, expect its ski poles and other products to give Olympic freestyle skiers an edge during the Winter Games in South Korea.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Feb 9, 2018

The U.S. Team headed for South Korea won't feature as much star power as usual in the traditional high-ratings events, but there are a lot of great athletes and story lines if fans dig deep enough.

By Peter Schmuck

Feb 3, 2018

At 17, Chloe Kim is the favorite to win the Olympic halfpipe contest being held in South Korea, the country where her parents grew up.

After fracturing her ankle before the Sochi Games, American Maggie Voisin will be a medal contender in the slopestyle contest.

From November through March, Ethan and Christian Coherd pile their battered and worn secondhand equipment into their mom's equally battered white 2012 Honda Odyssey. The twins and their mom, Krystal Lucado, make the 1 1/2-hour drive from Baltimore to Roundtop Mountain in Lewisberry, Pa., five days a week to practice Alpine snowboarding. They estimate that they spend more than 40 hours a week training, in addition to school and homework. The Coherd twins are not fazed by the obstacles.

Mikulak posted a two-round score of 183.650, a whopping 4.35 points ahead of Baltimore's Donnell Whittenburg.

I'm old enough to remember when it was a big deal when athletes were chosen to have their photo on the front of a Wheaties box, yet I've never eaten a bowl of Wheaties in my life.

Starting at 16, Jamie Bestwick spent 12 years working various jobs to earn his living. He was a ceramic tiler, then worked at a chocolate factory, and then worked at an airplane engine repair company. Back then, BMX was just a hobby — a part-time job, at best — that he couldn't get off his mind.

Bucky Lasek will compete in skateboard vert and rallycross at X Games 2014 in Austin, Texas.

Under Armour unveils newest ad in I Will campaign, highlighting new ColdGear Infrared apparel

Travis Pastrana, the Maryland-born motocross and X Games superstar, has given up his NASCAR dream for now.

Dundalk native Bucky Lasek won his third gold medal of the year in skateboard vert at X-Games Munich on Thursday, continuing what has been one of the best seasons of the skater¿s career.

Broadcast Sports Inc. in Hanover, Maryland, provides the technology for views from challenging places, such as Nik Wallenda's walk across the Grand Canyon on Sunday

That day, seven years ago, Baltimore native Bucky Lasek was in Orange County, Calif., overseeing his skateboarding camp. Schaar was one of the participants who had to show the ability to roll down the ramp before joining the camp — a practice typically done on on a board.

Action sports star Travis Pastrana willing to work his way up NASCAR's ranks

Catonsville senior hurler John Klein hurls gem in win over Lansdowne

The film is part of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which travels to Loyola University March 20.

The second week of the semi-finals is full of acts that could never compete with the ones from the first week