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August 03, 2007 By: BNQT Photo Credit: © Eric Lars Bakke/ESPN Images Banquet’s got all your X Games roundups right here. First thing’s first: Jake Brown’s horrifying wreck will come to define this X Games: Colin Bane has all the X Games skate action covered for us: For a first-hand report on the heinousness of Jake Brown’s fall o… |
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July 26, 2007 By: BNQT The big day is manana! (That means 'tomorrow' en espanol.) That's right, X Fighters is coming to Madrid, Spain this weekend where ten of the best FMX riders in the world will compete for the world title. And that's what's so cool about X Fighters. This is a world competition. Not just a U.S. thing. Superstars, young guns, old friends and up-and-rising rookie talents - an… |
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Foster's ASP World Title Update July 23, 2007 By: BNQT After snagging the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay stop on the Foster's ASP World Tour, Taj Burrow finds himself trailing only Mick Fanning on the ratings board. The top ten is stacked with big names: Andy Irons, Kelly Slater, Joel Parkinson, and Damien Hobgood are all within striking distance of Fanning for the second half. From JBay, the tour heads to Trestles, where the field will try to whit… |
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White and Sheckler Win, Again. Dew Tour Results July 23, 2007 By: BNQT Vert 1.) Shaun White 2.) Bucky Lasek 3.) Bob Burnquist 4.) Rune Glifberg 5.) Andy Macdonald 6.) Mathias Ringstrom 7.) Lincoln Ueda 8.) Rob Lorifice 9.) Pierre-Luc Gagnon 10.) Danny Mayer Park 1.) Ryan Sheckler 2.) Rodolfo Ramos 3.) Carlos De Andrade 4.) Kurtis Colamonico 5.) Austen Seaholm 6.) Mike Peterson 7.) Greg Lutzka 8.) Jereme Rogers 9.) Rodney jones 10.) Dayne Brum… |
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Gambling on the Right Guard Open July 18, 2007 By: BNQT As a company, Banquet recently made the decision to get into the illicit gambling business (you can read about it here), and our first test run is with the Right Guard Open stop of the Dew Tour. You can swing by Banquet World Headquarters and place your bets in person, and we’ll happily throw you down in our books. Here’s what our board is looking like for the BM… |
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Gambling on The Right Guard Open July 18, 2007 By: BNQT Let’s hear it for illegal gambling! The 2007 Dew Tour is rolling into Cleveland this weekend and what better way to celebrate then by handicapping the field and starting up an illicit gambling ring right here on BNQT? Inexplicably, none of the so-called “legitimate†sports books out there are providing odds on the biggest tour in action sports. But… |
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July 17, 2007 By: BNQT Round three matchups are over and it's time to seperate the wheat from the chaffe. The first call on round four of the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay will be made 7 a.m. local time, with a five-day window remaining to get in eight heats, quarterfinals, semi-finals, and final. When given the go-ahead, matchups will look thusly: Round 3 Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay Results: … |
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Tools of the Trade - Yonathan Avara June 29, 2007 By: BNQT MTB Photographer/videographer Yonathan Avara opens up the bag of goods. Yoni is one of the most talented guys in the business. 1) All-Terrain Shoes- ""When Im not on my bike, Im in the mud. Comfortable, dry feet keep me working all day. I use Lowe Gore-Tex whatevers."" 2) Helmet- ""Im a rider first, photographer/videographer second. In my opinion, its a super-important trait in any sport- k… |
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The Man Behind Montreal: Mathieu Cowan June 26, 2007 By: BNQT Name: MATHIEU COWAN Age: 25 Home base: MONTREAL, CANADA Give us a summary of your life in two sentences without using the letter “eâ€Â: I don’t know :P Top five things in your life right now: Golf, cinematography, girls, snowboard, porn. Have you ever heard of the phrase, “pants-off dance-off?†No, Iâ… |
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Jason Page: The Guy Who Stole Your Car June 25, 2007 By: BNQT "Full Name: Jason PageKnown Aliases: Teet, Turtle, Coach, TeeteemandoAge: 28Home base: WPB FL right near RawveraWhats shakin? Titties.Describe what you’re up to these days, aside from answering pesky interview questions: Filming everything around me and working on a drunken “smutumentary.†On a scale of 1-10, how raw is the uncensored version of Exot… |
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The Cedric Gracia Interview - Part I June 25, 2007 By: BNQT If there’s such a thing as a celebrity in mountain biking it’s Cedric Gracia, a 29-year-old, outspoken, ebullient, and perhaps slightly unhinged Frenchman with a staggeringly long list of successful downhill race results on his resume. He is an outsized personality to say the least: A large with a European swagger who travels the world bombing himself down mount… |
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Banquet Magazine Reader is Here June 12, 2007 By: BNQT After outrageous expenditures of both blood and treasure, the Banquet Digital Magazine Reader has arrived. It nearly killed us, but we proudly bring you this Special Spring '07 Edition from the good folks at Concrete Wave Magazine. We're going to be hooking up all sorts of new magazine content in the near future, so stay tuned for more installments. We think our software is pretty … |
