The X-Games is an extreme sports competition presented twice annually by ESPN that features athletes from around the world competing in skiing, snowboarding, BMX, and skateboarding. The first X-Games launched in 1995 and included additional extreme sports like bungee jumping and rollerblading. The Winter X-Games began in 1997, held in Aspen, Colorado, while the Summer X-Games are held in Los Angeles, though will move to Austin, Texas after this year. Athletes compete for medals and cash prizes at these extreme competitions.

1. X-Games
By: Malik Martin

2. What is the X-Games?
• “ESPN’s X Games is the ultimate action sports event,
attracting adrenalin-crazed athletes from across the
globe who continuously push the boundaries and keep
coming back to defy gravity, and belief – drawing record
audiences with an insatiable appetite for the extreme.”
• The X-games is an extreme sport competition that is
presented twice a year by ESPN. Athletes from all over
the world compete for gold, silver, and bronze medals,
as well as cash and prizes.
• X-Games events tend to vary year to year, but they
generally consist of skiing, snowboarding, BMX biking
and skateboarding.
• The “X” in X-Games symbolizes many things.
• X is short for Extreme, which many of the sports are.
• X is also a mathematical symbol of the unknown and
many fans come to expect this about the X-Games.
• X also refers to the generation born between the early
1960’s and 1980’s. This was the intended audience for
the X-games.
• Now there target audience is Generation Y born between
1980 and 2001

3. History of the X-Games
• The X-games first launched in 1995 in Rhode
Island.
• It was originally called the “extreme games”
and included skateboarding, bungee jumping
roller blading, mountain biking and sky surfing.
• ESPN spent reportedly $10 million on the 1995
X-Games and drew 200,ooo spectators.
• The franchise became so successful that in
1997 ESPN launched the Winter X Games
featuring skiers and snowboarders.
• The winter event got more extreme with
sports like snowmobile freestyle and ice
climbing.

4. Winter and Summer Games
• The first Winter X-Games was held in Big Bear Lake
California, in 1997.
• The winter X Games is held on a snowy mountain
environment and features winter sports like
snowboarding, skiing, and snowmobiling.
• The Winter X Games are held in late January in Aspen,
Colorado.
• Colorado has hosted the X-Games since 2002, but there
contract expired this past January.
• The Summer X-Games is held in a warm environment
and includes competition in skateboarding, BMX Biking,
motorcycling, rally car racing and surfing.
• The Summer X-Games are held in July in Los Angeles
• After this year, the Summer X-Games will be moved to
Austin, Texas.
• Scott Guglielmino, ESPN's senior vice president for
programming and Global X, said Austin's vibrant spirit,
as well as the potential for a "festival feel" at COTA,
helped sway X Games decision-makers.

5. YouTube Clip(Top 10 Summer X Games
Moments)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V7hu6ZuqfM

6. Commissioner
There is no commissioner for the X-games.
Kieren Perrow who is the
commissioner for the Association of
Surfing Professionals. (ASP)
His primary job is maintain and
preserve the integrity of competition
by keeping tabs on judges, venues,
scheduling and ranking

7. League Website
• http://xgames.espn.go.com/

8. Headquarters Location
• ESPN HQ is located in Bristol, Connecticut.
• https://www.google.com/maps/place/ESPN+Plaza/@41.6515573,-
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9. Championship
• The X-Games is just like the Olympics, they
hand gold, silver and bronze medals.
• They also hand out prize money, which many
athletes complained that they were being
underpaid.
• Winners can earn $50,000 for the take the top
prize in any event.

10. Professional Article
• Title: “Piece of the Action.”
• http://www.sbrnet.com.jerome.stjohns.edu
:81/publication.asp?function=detail&magid
=210712
• ESPN is trying to get more global sponsorships
for the X-games. They currently have Go Pro
and Jeep which signed multi-year deals that
take in the 2014 X-Games. They are
negotiating with Ford and Red Bull to extend
there deals to 2014 and beyond.
• In total six global partners are being targeted
for 2014

11. Article
• Title: EXTREME SPORTS: Too Dangerous for
Kids?
• http://search.proquest.com.jerome.stjohns.ed
u:81/docview/1613619453/F11141D34CB246AD
PQ/1?accountid=14068
• This article posses the question about whether
or not extreme sports are too dangerous for
kids.
• There have been four million injuries since
2000. Most of them are cuts and bruises, but
two winters ago Caleb Moore was killed and in
2009 Olympic snowboarder Kevin Pearce
suffered a permanent brain injury after a fall
during a practice run

12. Pros and Cons of Extreme Sports
• Pros:
• The thrill of pulling off amazing tricks.
• Offers opportunities to million of kids who
don’t enjoy team sports.
• Extreme sports lets kids be more creative and
imaginative than sports like football or soccer
• Extreme Sports can also build confidence and
discipline.
• Cons:
• Risk of serious injury. (4 million injuries since
2000)
• Beginners often attempts stunt that are
beyond there skill level.
• Kids often practice these sports withour adult
supervision.
• Helmets isn’t required for skateboarders.

13. Lids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du3EFpShxvU

14. Headquarter Location
• Lids Corporate Office Headquarters
7555 Woodland Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46278 USA
• https://www.google.com/maps/place/7555+Wood
land+Dr,+Indianapolis,+IN+46278/@39.8901046,-
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• Lids has more than 1,000 mall- based, airport,
street level, and factory outlet locations
nationwide, and in Canada and Puerto Rico.

15. URL link
• http://www.lids.com/

16. LinkedIn Profile
• The Dew Tour is a summer sports event,
controlled and arranged by U.S. sports
broadcaster NBC Sports and Alli Sports which
focuses on extreme sports.

17. Sources
• http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/
encyclopedia/x-games/?ar_a=1
• http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,
1873166,00.html
• http://www.friasproperties.com/aspen/aspen-colorado-
winter-x-games/
• http://www.espn.com.au/x-games/
• http://xgames.espn.go.com/article/9484217/x-games-
announces-new-host-city-austin-texas-2014
• http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/x-games1.
htm
• Www.lids.com