The riders will tell anything is possible at this extreme skating competition. One can start off and end up on top, as can be among the favorites and have a lower race.
Nevertheless, the capital has high hopes in its ranks: among the twenty or so reckless of the Quebec City area who will face the obstacle course, Sebastien Morissette (Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures) Simon and Gagnon (Stoneham) are all both the top 25 on the international circuit, having started in Saint Paul, Minnesota in January. Louis-Philippe Dumoulin, Blainville, Quebec is another to watch, he who occupies the 11th place worldwide.
Twenty-fifth in the standings, Simon Gagnon admits that there is a small piece of luck in the results. "It's kind of what happened [the Canadian] Adam Horst Sweden. He was third in the final, but he took advantage of the fact that his opponents have stumbled to overtake and finish first. "
Morissette, 22nd in the world
He who, at age 35, considers himself an "old wolf" among other athletes, admits continue to be impressed by the track that runs down the streets of Old Quebec. "It's something," he leaves fall, despite the fact it is the eve of its seventh competition (fourth in Quebec). "It's really impressive. In the Côte de la Montagne, one can achieve a good 60 km / h, then we must say that we must balance only on skate blades, "says one who practices first and foremost skiing . Its goal? Getting in the semifinals, issue of accumulating the highest score possible for direct access to the next world championship.
With a third and sixth positions in Quebec in 2008 and 2010, Sebastien Morissette has joined the select club of the greatest skaters ice cross down hill. He is currently the 22nd largest in the world, despite a season that he is not entirely satisfactory. "I finished 13th in St. Paul, Minnesota, but it has been less well in the Netherlands and Sweden."
Between two crossfit workouts - just opened a fitness center with her sister - Sebastien is doing all it can to prepare for the grand finale. He dreams aloud to a descent ice where he could practice in Quebec City for part of winter. "There is already a training track in Austria, but it is a bit far from home ... joke there. It really is the passion that allows me to continue in the sport there. I am far from able to live it, "admits the 29 year old local star.
One of the many storylines in the NBA Finals won by the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night was Terry's bold tattoo. Terry said he had the Larry O'Brien championship trophy tattooed on his right bicep before the season began because he was confident the Mavs would clinch the title.
Losing would've been painful for Terry, literally, as he said he would have the tattoo removed.
The 105-95 victory was sweet for many Mavericks, especially Terry, who led the team in scoring with 27 points.
"When you did something as crazy as I did, you have to back it up," Terry said, showing his tattoo to the television cameras. "This team never gave up when faced with adversity. We never gave up. Tonight we got vindication."
The Mavs used furious scoring barrages by Terry and weathered an uneven game by star forward Dirk Nowitzki to win the game.
"I still really can't believe it. The team worked so long and so hard. The team deserves this. The Mavs nation deserves this," Nowitzki said. "I could not get in a rhythm today but the team carried me to this win."
Despite a poor shooting night Nowitzki still had 21 points.
The Mavs held a slim 53-51 lead at halftime and was able to grow the lead. They led by 9 at the end of the third quarter. They pulled away in the fourth quarter helped by Miami's sloppy play and turnovers.
The loss was devastating for Miami, a team that seemed to be put together for a championship. Before the season the Heat added perennial all-star forward Chris Bosh and superstar forward LeBron James to a team that was headed by talented guard Dwayne Wade.
The win earns the first championship for star power forward Nowitzki. It also means his Mavericks avenged their crushing loss against the Heat in the 2006 NBA Finals.
With the game on the line and a game-high 40 points already in the bank for the Dallas Mavericks, Dirk Nowtizki tried to make the signature play in overtime of Game 4 of the Western Conference finals.
He didn't force it. Instead of taking the shot he found Jason Kidd in the corner. Kidd gave a pump fake to free himself from the on-rushing Russell Westbrook to nail the game-winner as the Mavericks overcame a 15-point deficit with 5:06 left in regulation to shock the Oklahoma City Thunder 112-105 and take a 3-1 series lead.
"People still think Kidd is not a good shooter but over the years he's proved everybody wrong," Nowitzki said.
BOX SCORE: Thunder 112, Mavericks 105
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It was the Mavericks' second consecutive road win and the first time since April 2 that the Thunder lost consecutive games.
Dallas can close out the series at home and advance to its second NBA Finals in franchise history Wednesday (ESPN, 9 p.m. ET).
Nowitzki scored 12 points in the fourth quarter for the Mavericks. The Thunder thought they had leveled the series after Kevin Durant's three-pointer gave them a 99-84 lead, but Nowitzki outplayed him down the stretch.
After a two errants shots by Durant, the 7-footer had a jumper and a three-pointer to cut the Mavericks defict to 101-94.
Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook missed two free throws with 2:11 left, and Nowitzki answered with a difficult fallaway jumper over two defenders on the baseline.
"Dirk Nowitzki was great, making threes and contested jump shots," Durant said. "And they played great defense. We lost."
According to the numbers, the Thunder had no business dropping this game:
•They held a 55-33 rebounding edge, including 20-5 on the offensive boards, as Durant had a game-high 15 and Serge Ibaka 10.
•They had a 23-16 advantage in assists, led by Westbrook with game-high eight.
•They outscored the Mavs in the paint 54-36 as Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins combined for 24 points compared to 14 by Tyson Chandler and Brendan Haywood.
•They won blocked shots 9-2.
•They led 19-6 in fast-break points and 24-12 in second-chance points.
What undid Oklahoma City in the end, however, was turnovers. They had 25, 12 more than Dallas. Durant had a series-high nine and Westbrook six.
"That's hard to overcome against a very good Dallas team," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. "I give our guys a lot of credit, they came and fought and did everything they can to win this game. It's unfortunate that we didn't come out with the win. Dallas outplayed us down the stretch."
Brooks was without sixth man James Harden because he foule dout 4:34 left in regulation. He picked up three fouls in a four-minute stretch and the Thunder went 1-for-9 and had three turnovers.
Ibaka, who had 18 points and 10 rebounds for Oklahoma City, tied it at 105 on a mid-range jump shot in overtime. But Kidd's three-pointer with 40.3 seconds left gave the Mavericks a lead they would never relinquish.
Durant, who was edgy all week and promising he'd be more aggressive in Game 4, was just that early. He got the Thunder off to a quick start with 10 first-quarter points.
He finished with 29 points and 15 rebounds, but Durant went cold and finished 9-for-22 shooting. With the score tied at 101 in regulation, Shawn Marion blocked his three-point attempt.
"Once we got to OT, we had to feel good about ourselves after being down 15," Nowitzki said. "We obviously talked about it in timeouts that we've got to go for it now. We're here and this is our ballgame."
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean somebody ain't out to getcha. It might even be several somebodies. In the early months of the CBS hit The Mentalist, it seemed to viewers that Red John, the unseen psychopath who haunts and taunts Simon Baker's character, Patrick Jane, was operating as a solo act. But now, in the show's third season, it is creepily clear this serial killer is part of a larger conspiracy and has several operatives at his command. Red John even has an accomplice actively involved with the California Bureau of Investigation, the very organization that's trying to bring him down.
Fans finally learn the identity of that mole in the May 19 season finale, a two-hour heart-pumper — innocently titled "Strawberries and Cream" — that ends with the unmasking of Red John himself. It's true! Jane finally gets face time with the sicko who slew his wife and daughter many years ago, and that confrontation will change the course of the series in a seismic way.
"We're really stepping outside the box with this one," Baker says. "We'll see how far we can push Patrick and still keep him empathetic and likable in the eyes of the audience. There's been an increasing feeling of paranoia all season, a real pressure-cooker situation. You have to be constantly on guard and careful that you're not talking to someone who is now or has ever been a member of the Red John Communist Party. It's bad."
But only Jane knows how bad. In a scene filming at the Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank, the uncannily shrewd crime consultant has gathered together his inner circle of trust — agents Lisbon (Robin Tunney), Cho (Tim Kang), Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) and Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) — for a briefing session in which he tells them Red John has someone planted in their midst. He's kept this a secret for months, sharing it only recently with Lisbon.
"Patrick finally has to play his hand, and it's nerve-racking for him," notes Baker between takes. "He's at a point where he's desperate — desperate and calculating — and he needs the help of the CBI team to find the mole." Taking part in Jane's plan could be lethal, so Lisbon gives everyone a chance to back out. No one takes her up on it. "Until now, Patrick has been on an almost maniacal one-man hunt for Red John," Yeoman says. "Dangerous as it is, everyone's glad to be included. For the first time in a long time, we're really bonded and working together." Adds Kang: "At this point, the Red John conspiracy is so potentially big, only Jane and his immediate team can count on each other. It has them going, 'Screw everybody else at CBI! We're circling the wagons and taking care of business our way!'"
Just as there are five definite good guys, Jane reveals there are five possible moles. All are connected to the Red John investigation and all are known to regular viewers. "We've tried to create a real Hitchcockian whodunit that puts the audience in a privileged position," says creator Bruno Heller. "We know more than the people on screen, and in suspense drama, that's always a beautiful thing."
This isn't the first time one of Red John's associates has come dangerously close to our heroes. Last season, an innocuous secretary named Rebecca (Shauna Bloom) massacred three staffers at CBI headquarters. Religious guru Bret Stiles (Malcolm McDowell) is certainly in league with this devil, as was Todd Johnson (Josh Braaten), the cop killer who was burned alive in his high-security prison cell by the mole Jane now seeks. Quoting the 19th century Romantic poet William Blake can be a tip-off. Red John did it most memorably in last year's season finale when, wearing a mask, he whispered a stanza from "The Tyger" into Jane's ear. Then Johnson, a hick from the sticks, quoted from the same poem while taking his last breath. Even CBI director Gale Bertram (Michael Gaston) broke into a little Blake during a manhunt, instantly placing himself on our suspect list. And though we now know Lisbon's on-the-lam boss, Madeleine Hightower (Aunjanue Ellis), didn't kill Johnson as initially feared, can we really trust CBI agent J.J. LaRoche (Pruitt Taylor Vince), the nuisance who fingered Hightower for the crime?
"We don't know how Red John is creating his society, and that makes it all the more scary," Righetti says. "Are these people who work with him doing it willingly? Are they being paid off? Bribed? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? Until he's caught, we won't know." Were we tipped off to all this way back in Season 1? Mentalist groupies will recall the episode "Red John's Friends," where one of the killer's victims spent his last moments writing the cryptic message "He is Man" in his own blood. What did it mean? Was the message complete? Fans have debated these questions ever since. Finally, Baker weighs in with his take. "I think we could say at this point that 'he is man' was meant to be 'he is many,'" the actor observes. "But then that raises the question, if Jane ever gets Red John, is he getting the real Red John?"
But let's get back to that mole. "This season we've brought in so many great guest actors that it makes it really hard to figure out who it is," says Tunney. "Plus, I guess it helps" — she adds with a laugh — "that we have such a rotten security system at CBI. Our screening process is certainly lacking. It could be anybody!"
It has not been all that long since the Cavaliers have had the No. 1 overall pick—in 2003, they chose first and, of course, picked a guy named LeBron James. We all know how that worked out. Now, though, the Cavaliers get another chance to rebuild their franchise. After Tuesday night’s draft lottery, they are sitting atop the board with the No. 1 (and No. 4) pick.
Here’s how the June 23 draft shaping up:
Brigham Young pounded out 19 hits and got a solid pitching performance by Matthew Neil as it defeated San Diego State, 9-3, to capture the final game of their three-game conference series at Tony Gwynn Stadium. Even with the loss, the Aztecs maintained their slim hold on fourth place in the Mountain West Conference standings by percentage points over BYU and UNLV.
SDSU freshman left-hander Mitch Bluman struggled from the outset in his third start of the season as he escaped runners on third base in each of the first two innings. He was not as fortunate in the third when the Cougars got to him for a pair of runs on a walk and three hits for a 2-0 lead.
One of those hits was recorded by BYU right fielder Jaycob Brugman, who tortured the Aztecs all afternoon. Brugman would end his day with four hits including the double along with a two-run homer and four RBI.
Brigham Young starter Matthew Neil held the Aztec hitless over the first four innings, but they did manage answer BYU's two-run outburst by scoring a run in bottom of the third. Dillon Bryant's grounder was misplayed by BYU first baseman Austin Hall for a two-base error. A ground out by Evan Potter moved Bryant to third and sacrifice fly by Cody Smith made it a 2-1 game.
But the visitors took control of the contest with four runs in the next frame, a rally that began with a leadoff triple by Bret Lopez and ended with Brugman's two-run blast to right. The Cougars would touch up Aztec pitching on the day for a hit total that included five doubles along with the triple and home run.
Freshman DH Ben Vasko did his part to get SDSU back into the contest with a solo home run, his second of the season, to lead off the fifth. He was the lone Aztec to reach base more than once in the game as he also drew a walk and was hit by pitch.
San Diego State's other run came in the bottom of the seventh when it put men on first and second on a single by Jomel Torres and hit by pitch to Vasko. A wild pitch moved both runners up before a grounder to short by Tim Zier brought Torres home for the final 9-3 score.
Neil's day ended after that inning and he would be credited with the win to improve to 5-4. His line included three runs (two earned) on two hits with a walk and eight strikeouts. SDSU's Bluman took the loss to fall to 0-1 although he gave up just a pair of runs with three strikeouts during his 2.1 innings.
Up next for San Diego State is a three-game conference series at UNLV next weekend to conclude the 2011 regular season. The first contest of that set is scheduled for Thursday, May 18, at 7:00 p.m. at Earl Wilson Stadium in Las Vegas.
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"The purpose of the event is to give people the opportunity to step outside of their comfort zone, do something active and crazy and awesome," said event spokesperson Greg Bostrom.
Around the 3-mile mard, things really start heating up.
Runners have to leap over logs of fire.
"I had to take a pretty good leap to get over it," said runner Jessica Melkner. " And, the smoke it probably the hardest thing."
Runner Jessica Geurra said, "It was hotter than I expected. But, you're not really thinking about the danger when you're out there. You're just having fun."
To cool off, athletes then take a swim in a mud pit.
"Oh, the mud was awesome," said runner Laya Ecob. "I loved getting down and crawling. I felt like I was in the military or something."
And, after you roll around in the mud, runners didn't have to worry about getting their cars dirty. They just took their shoes off and threw them in the pile."
"Green Sneakers is an awesome partner with us," Bostrom said. "They take these muddy, used shoes, clean 'em up and donate them to third world countries and families in need in the U.S."
Green sneakers expects to collect more than 176,000 pairs of shoes this weekend.
"Trying to work for a good cause is a good thing," said Hein. "So, I think not only do we have fun and good exercise, but then we get to donate our shoes. It's great. It's a win, win."
