With practice areas for figure skating, ice hockey, skiing, snowboarding and speed skating, among others, this network serves as the main East Coast training center for winter-sports Olympians.
The Winter Games boost snow-related sports, but do little for ski resort valuations.
On Monday, the sports news was a flurry of week-long victories for Italians in winter sports and the fifth consecutive victory for favorite son, Giorgio Rocca.
With the 20th-century boom in winter sports, the unloved blankets of snow that stifled the Walser each winter suddenly became white gold, and villages such as Davos, Klosters and Lech grew into famous ski resorts.
When my husband and I arrived last December, the peaked roofs were blanketed in snow and hung with icicles, and the lodge's guests were embarked on winter sports: snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and skating on a private rink (complete with a warming hut serving Cognac and cigars).
But not, it seems, in sports-crazy Italy where the Winter Games are being largely ignored.
The result: a best-ever 34 winter medals, many in obscure sports, such as luge.
Under the new agreement, all postseason games televised by NBC and Versus (which will be re-branded NBC Sports Network at the Winter Classic) will be aired nationally.
This is great news for players, too (see p. 74), as the teams maximizing the local TV games shelled out extraordinary sums this winter--including two of the five largest contracts in sports history--to lock up talent.
The result: a best-ever 34 winter medals, many of which came in obscure sports, like luge.
Make sure there are snow tires available for your vehicle before you buy it, says Cox, since there are a few high-performance sport sedans and sports cars for which no winter tires are made.
This month a mob of 250 youngsters, many of them sporting baggy clothes, multicolored hairdos and multiple piercings, will invade the refined Aspen Mountain resort to appear at the Winter X Games, part of ESPN's twice-yearly "extreme sports" lollapalooza.
The multi-million dollar ski industry has yet to face up to the possibility of reduced winter sports and in impact on the local economies.
Dominating the list of winter sports advertisers getting the most bang for their buck were beer makers (Miller, Anheuser-Busch and Coors--no surprise), property insurers (Allstate and State Farm--mild surprise) and office supply companies (Staples, Office Depot and Office Max all made it--bigger surprise).
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