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Watch out, readers, Gary Hall Jr. is back
Cedar Point and Six Flags Magic Mountain have been battling over the coveted title of Roller Coaster Capital of the World for years. The two parks were tied, with a record 17 roller coasters apiece,...
View ArticleFlying Turns roller coaster: Will we ever get to ride this replica of a relic?
Reporting from Knoebels in Elysburg, Pa.-- Over the last five summers, the most anticipated roller coaster hasn’t been a towering, looping speed demon but rather a slow, squat and serpentine 1930s-era...
View ArticleLIBOR's heavy toll
The scandal surrounding the London InterBank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, seems like yet another barely comprehensible tale of Wall Street's opaque inner workings. At its heart, though, the LIBOR con was...
View ArticleDisneyland donates Matterhorn cars to roller coaster museum
Most Disneyland visitors would describe the old cars on the Matterhorn ride as aging and cramped. The chairman of the National Roller Coaster Museum and Archives is calling the cars "the holy grail" of...
View ArticleLolo Jones earns a spot on U.S. bobsled team
Lolo Jones may earn an Olympic medal yet -- maybe even before the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. The two-time Olympic hurdler was one of 24 athletes announced Thursday as members of the U.S....
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BMW's California design studio designs bobsled for U.S. national team
Usually, BMW doesn’t want its vehicles to slide freely on ice. But that’s exactly the goal of its latest project – developing a two-man bobsled for the U.S. men’s bobsled team. The sled raced for the...
View ArticleDesigning the ultimate bobsled for BMW
The gig: Michael Scully is creative director of global design for BMW Group DesignworksUSA in Newbury Park. So it's fitting that a car designer who grew up in snowy New Hampshire would be assigned this...
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Canada leads in women's bobsled; U.S. team in second place
Lolo Jones shouldn't have trouble paying her rent this month, or any other for the rest of her life. At least that's the way it would seem, considering the aspiring Olympic bobsledder is also a world...
View ArticleLolo Jones won't be punished for bar fight, bobsled officials say
It seems that U.S. bobsled officials will not sanction Lolo Jones after she got into a bar fight with the stepdaughter of a Hall of Fame bobsledder over the weekend. The U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton...
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Canada leads in women's bobsled; U.S. team in second place
Lolo Jones shouldn't have trouble paying her rent this month, or any other for the rest of her life. At least that's the way it would seem, considering the aspiring Olympic bobsledder is also a world...
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