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This new Travis Rice commercial where he barely avoids being sucked down the face of a mountain by an avalanche is not so un-amazing (watch it here). Peep, peeps!

I’d imagine these team reels are flooding the nets like mad, but here’s Plan B’s coverage of P-Rod, Sheckles and Sherm at the Maloof Money Cup …

And for posterity’s sake, here are the final results:

Street:
1 Paul Rodriguez
2 Nyjah Huston
3 Chris Cole
4 Ryan Sheckler
5 Darrell Stanton
6 Jereme Rogers
7 Terry Kennedy
8 Andrew Reynolds
9 Greg Lutzka
10 Dennis Busenitz
11 Adam Dyet
12 Tommy Sandoval
13 Billy Marks Corona
14 Kurtis Colamonico
15 Sean Malto
16 Bryan Herman
17 Eric Koston
18 Mike Carroll
19 Jake Duncombe
20 Sierra Fellers
21 Chris Mendes
22 Ronnie Creager
23 Erik Ellington
24 Peter Ramondetta
25 Alex Mizurov
26 Nick Dompierre
27 Corey Duffel
28 Marc Johnson
29 Stefan Janoski
30 Braydon Szafranski
31 Alex Olson
32 Zered Bassett
33 Brandon Biebel
34 Leo Romero

Vert:
1 Pierre-Luc Gagnon
2 Shaun White
3 Bucky Lasek
4 Danny Mayer
5 Sandro Dias
6 Andy Macdonald
7 Bob Burnquist
8 Lincoln Ueda
9 Rodrigo Menezes
10 Buster Halterman
11 Rune Glifberg
12 Rob Lorifice
13 Neal Hendrix
14 Alex Perelson
15 Jake Brown
16 Josh Stafford
17 Darren Navarrette
18 Jean Postec
19 Max Dufour
20 Adam Taylor

DVS posted a top-notch video recap of the 2008 Copenhagen Pro. (On a side note, it seems that just about every video DVS posts online is straight-up high-quality stuff.) Watch it here:

Spoiler note: Here are the final results. Looked like a fun contest.

1 Danny Cerezini
2 Diego Oliveira
3 Eero Antilla
4 Jereme Rogers
5 John Rattray
6 Eric Koston
7 Elton Melonio
8 Daniel Viera
9 Matt Beach
10 Rob Gonzalez
11 Pontus Alv
12 Willian Seco

Nice.

I haven’t had a chance to watch these yet, but I think these are all the parts for DVS’ new video, “Dudes Dudes Dudes”. Can’t wait to check it out on the train tomorrow (it’s available as a Podcast too). Go to DVSSkate.com for more. Whirred.

Part 1: Featuring Paul Shier

Part 2: Featuring Euro riders Andrew Brophy, Kristian Bomholt, Janne Saario, Lucien Clark and Mark Baines

Part 3: Featuring Kerry Getz, Zered Bassett, Guru Khalsa, Steve Berra, Jereme Rogers, Chico Brenes, Lamare Hemmings, Jimmy Cao, Jeron Wilson, Kenny Hoyle and Daewon Song

Part 4: Featuring Torey Pudwill

PHOTO: Cool photos from the RVCA S.F. art show
FOOTY: Mike Carroll outtakes from Fully Flared (Tailtap: Crailtap)
PHOTO: Philly’s famous LOVE logo pops up in New York
RNDM: Turning busted decks into fancy footwear (TT: Crailtap)
NEWS: Is Tony Hawk smarter than a 5th grader?
FOOTY: Sherm shows off more of his GOD-given abilities

FOOTY: The Amazing Jim Greco Just Won’t Quit Until He Stomps a Switch Front Flip Highly recommended viewing
FOOTY: Terry Kennedy on “Sober Mind Power” I guess this means Jereme Rogers is on the straight and narrow these days? (Tailtap: Skate Daily)
NEWS: Stereo Re-Launched Their Website (TT: Skate Daily)
FOOTY: Element Team Takeover Clip, ft. Levi Brown (TT: The Skateboard Mag)
NEWS: Banksy Caught in the Act? (TT: Slap)
FOOTY: Jereme Rogers “Echo” Commercial for DVS They been running these as PodCasts for a little whiles now. Just sayin’, y’alls.
NEWS: Pete Eldridge Jumps On With Mystery
NEWS: Danny Garcia No Longer on Matix
FOOTY: Basement Sesh 3 Love it. Though I couldn’t bring myself to sit through the whole thing.

Transworld has an online-exclusive interview with Jereme Rogers. In it, Rogers dishes on the real reason why he left Girl for Plan B, which apparently had to do with board sales and nothing else. (To quote a certain vid a certain somebody starred in, “Yeah, Right!”) As much as Sherm says he only left over his cut of the royalties, I find it really curious that he says Colin McKay “called me literally the day I got off (Girl).” Timing of that fateful call seems a little too good to be true, no? I mean, I’d never call Rogers a sell-out or anything - he’s still one of the best in the game - but if you want to ride with your buds and try to start an all-star street team, then just admit as much. Don’t trash Girl’s good name, you know? Though maybe he’s telling it straight. Who knows?

Anyway, some other nuggets you’ll pick up from the interview include: why Sherm left Billabong for Famous, why he and P-Rod started sk8site.com, and his relationship with God. That last one really surprised me. Honestly, I had no idea that the lil’ bastard from Boston was so religious. I guess the neck tats threw me off; though looking at the one above, I guess it should’ve been obvious. Nice job by me. Either way, it’s a solid, albeit short, read. Check it out.

(Tailtap: skateeverything)