Espn's Ultimate X

Competitive skateboarding, snowboarding, snowmobiling, street luge, in-line skating and motorcycle and mountain-bike stunt driving (aka Moto X and BMX, respectively) are all part of a loose conglomeration of athletic activities known colloquially as "extreme sports." There used to be others: When the term was first used in the early 1990s, it also included "super-modified shovel racing" (you sit on the scoop, hold onto the handle, and slide downhill) and kayak bungee-jumping, but they never made it in terms of popularity. The ones that did survive are now part of the X Games, a sort of slacker Super Bowl run by the sports network ESPN. Traditional sportsfolk tend to ...