Snowboard Cross rules!

"Hey, you got your snowboarding in my motocross."
"You got your motocross on my snowboarding."
"HEY! They're great together!"

Snowboard Cross is THE single best new winter Olympic sport in years. Sure,
those tobogganing runs down the mountain rollercoaster ice chutes are way
cool, but snowboard cross has it bit four ways from Sunday. It's one of the
few winter olympic sports where MULTIPLY athletes compete SIMULTANEOUSLY
instead of individual runs that compete based on time. Until they make those
bobsled / luge / skeleton chutes wider and had FOUR teams compete at once,
snowboard cross rules.

Plus, and this is the relevant point, snowboard cross is GREAT TV. As a
local radio host, (for those in Chicago, Eric Ferguson of the "Eric & Kathy
show") mentioned, instead of watching skiers or snowboarders do pert near
the same thing over again, snowboard crossers(?) have to compete not just
with time but directly against other opponents. Like last night, the fourth
snowboarder got cut off by the third one and got left in the dust--or the

Ken from Chicago...

snow.

THIS is the sport NBC should be advertising left and right. Sure, you can

suzee...

still advertise your ice dancing, but that's more entertainment. If you want
the thrill of watching athletic competition, snowboard cross is where it's
at!

Goro...