Seven Lengths of Vermont
Searching the crawl space beneath a friend’s New Jersey beach house, I find two foam boogie boards. One is powder blue with the name “Wave Princess” printed on it in a curly font. The other is yellow,...
View ArticleGoal Driven
The ref has just dropped the puck in the opening face-off of a late-night hockey game in South Burlington’s C. Douglas Cairns Recreation Arena — and, despite the chilly indoor temperature, the action...
View ArticleLine Changes
For decades, off-ice training for hockey players always presented the same drudgery: squats, bench presses, throwing on weight to get as big as you could. “Push-me, pull-me exercises,” sums up Matt...
View ArticleUVM Pep Band
11/2/12: Friday night the UVM men's hockey team got some musical support from The Fighting Catamount Band during their game against Providence. Since the '60s, the official pep band for UVM's athletic...
View ArticleScreaming Eagles
I am a die-hard New England Patriots fan. I have been since January 26, 1986, when my father, then a minister at a tiny church in Downeast Maine, concluded his sermon on Super Bowl Sunday with this...
View ArticleHall Mark
On July 28, 2013, the next class of candidates will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. We won’t know until January if the likes of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens or Curt...
View ArticleA Vermonter's Boxing Book Details the Language of the Ring
The language of sports has a long tradition of influencing the popular lexicon. From baseball we appropriate terms such as “strike out” and “hit a home run” to describe, respectively, failure and...
View ArticleFresh Start
On the first day of 2013, you can contemplate your fitness resolution for the New Year — say, over a mimosa and a croissant — or you can take it to the streets of Burlington, preferably dressed as a...
View ArticleBallet Meets Fitness at BarSculpt
This is not what I had in mind for kicking my feet up on a Friday night. Facing a ballet barre in Burlington’s Core Studio, I’m frantically trying to hoist my right leg to 90 degrees so that my ankle...
View ArticleCan Skateland make a comeback?
Dig out those roller skates collecting dust in your parents’ attic: Skateland is returning. At least, that’s the plan, according to Scott Perren, the Malletts Bay man who hopes to revive the Williston...
View ArticleGet Out and Backcountry Ski Festival
1/27/13: The 5th Annual Get Out and Backcountry Ski Festival was held at Bolton Valley on Sunday. Almost 100 skiers participated in this fundraiser for the Catamount Trail Association which included...
View ArticleThe Skateboarding Punk Rock Lawyer
12/14/12: Spencer P. Crispe is a seventh-generation Vermonter and the fourth generation in his family to practice law at the Crispe & Crispe Law Firm in Brattleboro. Unlike most attorneys, Crispe...
View ArticleBudnitz and Flahute Custom Bicycle Companies Roll Into Burlington
The latest artsy spot in Burlington’s South End has a brick-wall background, exposed overhead pipes and spotlights illuminating swoopy curves of metal. It’s pleasing to the eyes — but it’s meant for...
View ArticleAt Killington Resort, a Ski Mountain Doubles as a Green Mountain College...
Imagine living at the base of a major ski resort, hitting the slopes dozens of times each winter and doing it all in the company of similarly snow-obsessed college kids. For many undergrads, that would...
View ArticleWheels of Fortune: The New Dealer.com-EverBank Cycling Team Means Business
A few minutes before Bobby Bailey and I are scheduled to meet at the Starbucks in Williston one recent afternoon, he sends me a text saying how to recognize him: “Only one that ummmmm, hopefully looks...
View ArticleCapoeira Packs a Punch With Dance, Music and Martial Arts
Before you can learn capoeira in Fabio “Fua” Nascimento’s class, you have to learn a little Portuguese. At the beginning of each session, he passes out instruments — a drum, a cowbell, a tambourine —...
View ArticleIs Vermont Doing Enough to Protect Student Athletes From Head Injuries?
When 13-year-old Adrianna Mitrano told her parents she’d be skipping spring sports in favor of the school play, the announcement came as a relief. No more concussions, Leslie and Scott Mitrano...
View ArticleHandcyclists Rock and Roll the Vermont City Marathon
No matter how fast you run, no matter what number bib you’re wearing, and no matter how many miles you’ve sweated in your Sauconys, you’re not going to elbow ahead of Alicia Dana at the start of the...
View ArticleFormer Pro Snowboarder Kevin Pearce Has a New Documentary
Two professional snowboarders swoop through the credits of a new documentary, playing an effortless game of follow the leader in a half-pipe. The clip was filmed in 2007. One of the riders — Shaun...
View ArticleThe Return of the Bike Ferry
6/15/13: Local Motion supporters gathered at the "cut" to celebrate the reopening of the Island Line Trail bike ferry on Saturday. Record flooding in 2011 severely eroded the trail and put the bike...
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