“Skateboarding brings something that’s very special to Sacramento,” Saigeon said. The summer X Games, which include skateboarding, are scheduled to take place in the city for the next three ...

In 1999, Tony Hawk was taking part in the X Games’ Skateboard Vert Best Trick competition, in which skateboarders compete to perform the most impressive moves. He’d already attempted the 900 ...

Some of today’s most iconic names in freestyle skiing like Sammy Carlson, Maggie Voisin, Henrik Harlaut, and Tess LeDeux, have built careers on X Games podiums. Beyond the excit ...

More than 100,000 extreme sports enthusiasts attended the Summer X Games in Minneapolis last summer. Can U.S. Bank Stadium hit that attendance mark again or go even higher? The 2018 Summer X Games ...

Long a trendsetter in action sports, the X Games and its new CEO, freestyle skiing great Jeremy Bloom, teamed with Google founder Sergey Brin to build the technology. Using Google Cloud tools ...

With the debut of the X-Games event in 1995 and the explosion of popularity in extreme sports at the turn of the millennium, skateboarding is now a global sport represented at the highest level of ...

The X Games (x for “extreme”) were founded by ESPN programmers in the mid-1990s as a way to bring sports like snowboarding, freestyle skiing, skateboarding and motocross to wider audiences.